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IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas
Oct 6, 2026Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Jiashuo Sun +3Research Idea Generation Large Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery
The Unversity of Chicago · Yale University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +1
HypoKG: Evidence-Disciplined Biomedical Hypothesis Generation Beyond Endpoint Knowledge
Sep 14, 2026Dominic Okonkwo, Adetayo Okunoye, Ismailcem Budak ArpinarLLM Reasoning with Graphs Evidence-Grounded Reasoning
School of Computing University of Georgia
Measuring the Creativity of Frontier LLMs in Automated Research
Sep 12, 2026Yiheng Zhao, Mengzhuo Chen, Chengming Hu +3Creativity Assessment LLM Evaluation
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada · Independent Researcher · Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada +2
AgentIdeaBench: Benchmarking Scientific Ideation in the Agent Era
Sep 7, 2026Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi Zheng, Yisen Gao +7AI for Science AI Agent Evaluation
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, China · NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC), NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA
Can Large Language Models Forecast What Researchers Study Next?
Sep 1, 2026Fenghai Li, Zihan Tang, Haofei Yu +2LLM Evaluation Forecasting Benchmarks
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ideation Arena: Evaluating LLM Generated Research Ideas with Battle-style Human Expert Assessment
Aug 30, 2026Zhiyu Chen, Keyu Zhao, Jigao Fu +8AI Agents for Scientific Discovery LLM-as-a-Judge
1Fudan University · 3Tsinghua University · 4Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence +1
AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out
Aug 18, 2026Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Bruno +3Scientific Hypothesis Generation Research Idea Generation
Infinite Evolution Lab, EvoMap
LigBench: A Unified and Human-Aligned Benchmark for LLM-based Research Idea Generation
Aug 13, 2026Chenrun Wang, Mingxuan Zhu, Tiancheng Huang +6LLM Evaluation Benchmark Design
1X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · 2Shanghai Innovation Institution, Shanghai, China
Tree-of-Ideas: Automated Research Ideation via Cross-Trajectory Reasoning over Scholarly Evolution
Aug 11, 2026Xun Li, Yiying Yang, Pengtao Li +8AI Agents for Scientific Discovery Research Idea Generation
Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) · University of Melbourne · University of Sydney +4
Vibe Compiler: A Research-Logic Synthesis Tool That Runs without Prompt Engineering -Toward Enhancing Metacognition for Sustaining Agency in the Age of Generative AI-
Aug 6, 2026Riichiro Mizoguchi, Tomoki Aburatani, Kento Koike +1Human-in-the-Loop AI Research Idea Generation
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan · Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan · Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan +1
Adversarial Fast-Moving Real-World Domains as Test Beds for Benchmarking AI Scientist Capabilities
Aug 4, 2026William Bolton, Philip TorrAI Agents for Scientific Discovery Benchmark Design
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Diversifying Personalized Research Ideation against AI-Induced Homogenization
Jul 30, 2026Rui Xu, Yunke Wang, Linwei Tao +2AI-Assisted Scientific Research Recommender Systems
Wuhan University · The University of Sydney
IDEAgent: Agentic Quality-Diversity Search for Research Idea Generation
Jul 24, 2026Varun Gumma, Navonil Majumder, Soumitra Sinhahajari +1Multi-Agent LLM Systems Quality-Diversity Optimization
DeCLaRe Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
IdeaTrail: Full-Process Agent Trajectories for Scientific Ideation
Jul 11, 2026Hengquan GuoAI Agents for Scientific Discovery Scientific Hypothesis Generation
ShanghaiTech University
Ideas Have Genomes: Benchmarking Scientific Lineage Reasoning and Lineage-Grounded Idea Generation
Jul 9, 2026Yifan Zhou, Qihao Yang, Yan Li +14Scientific Reasoning Scientific Hypothesis Generation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +4
ResearchStudio-Idea: An Evidence-Grounded Research-Ideation Skill Suite from ML Conference Outcomes
Jul 5, 2026Qihao Zhao, Yangyu Huang, Yalun Dai +8Research Idea Generation Evidence-Grounded Generation
1Nanyang Technological University · 2Microsoft Research · 3National University of Singapore +1
EO-Agents: A Three-Agent LLM Pipeline for Earth Observation Hypothesis Generation
Jul 2, 2026Mahyar Ghazanfari, Amin Tabrizian, Armin Mehrabian +1Multi-Agent LLM Systems LLM Grounding
George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA · ADNET Systems, Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA
Measuring the Gap Between Human and LLM Research Ideas
Jul 1, 2026Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Arman CohanLLM Evaluation Scientific Hypothesis Generation
University of Chicago · Yale University
Heuresis: Search Strategies for Autonomous AI Research Agents Across Quality, Diversity and Novelty
Jun 23, 2026Antonis Antoniades, Deepak Nathani, Ritam Saha +6Novelty Search AI Agent Evaluation
University of California, Santa Barbara · Hexo AI
On the Limits of LLM-as-Judge for Scientific Novelty Assessment
Jun 10, 2026Soumitra Sinhahajari, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya PoriaAI for Science LLM-as-a-Judge
DeCLaRe Lab, Nanyang Technological University
Graph2Idea:Retrieval-Augmented Scientific Idea Generation with Graph-Structured Contexts
Jun 8, 2026Xu Li, Hanzhe Tu, Xun HanGraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation Scientific Hypothesis Generation
Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · Sichuan Police College, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
DN-Hypo-Pipeline: An AI-Driven Workflow for Generating Hypotheses using Large Language Models and Scientific Explanations
Jun 7, 2026Lei Lin, Ronghao Wang, Chunbao Zhou +2Scientific Reasoning Scientific Hypothesis Generation
Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
MIRAI: Prediction and Generation of High-Impact Academic Research
Jun 3, 2026Alex Li, Joseph JacobsonAI-Assisted Scientific Research Research Idea Generation
MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA
EvoGens: A Population-Based Heuristic Search Framework for Scientific Idea Generation
May 29, 2026Xu Li, Hanzhe Tu, Xinyi Li +3Scientific Hypothesis Generation Research Idea Generation
Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China · Sichuan Police College, Luzhou, China
ProjectionBench: Evaluating Scientific Hypothesis Generation in LLMs Under Progressive Information Disclosure
May 28, 2026A. J. Lew, Y. Cao, M. J. BuehlerLLM Evaluation Scientific Reasoning
Unreasonable Labs · Unreasonable Labs Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
AI Research Agents Narrow Scientific Exploration
May 27, 2026Yixuan Tang, Yi YangAI Agents for Scientific Discovery AI Agent Evaluation
1*ISOM, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Graphs of Research: Citation Evolution Graphs as Supervision for Research Idea Generation
May 14, 2026Songyang Gao, Yinghui Xia, Siyi Liu +1Scientific Hypothesis Generation Research Idea Generation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Tsinghua University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Read, Grep, and Synthesize: Diagnosing Cross-Domain Seed Exposure for LLM Research Ideation
May 12, 2026Yunju Choi, Min SongResearch Idea Generation Large Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery
1Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · 2OnomaAI, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
More Than Can Be Said: A Benchmark and Framework for Pre-Question Scientific Ideation
May 7, 2026Jie Yu, Song QiuAI for Science Scientific Hypothesis Generation
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing East China Normal University Shanghai, 200241
Structure Liberates: How Constrained Sensemaking Produces More Novel Research Output
May 1, 2026James Mooney, Zae Myung Kim, Young-Jun Lee +1AI Agents for Scientific Discovery Scientific Hypothesis Generation
University of Minnesota

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IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas

Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Jiashuo Sun, Yiling Ma+2

The Unversity of Chicago · Yale University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign+1

Research Idea Generation Large Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery

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Scientific research often begins by synthesizing ideas from a set of related papers to identify gaps and formulate new directions. However, training language models to perform this form of literature-grounded ideation remains challenging, as existing approaches based on prompting or feedback lack structured supervision for how papers should be synthesized. We introduce IdeaAnchor, a paradigm for training LLMs to perform research ideation using structured specifications as privileged signals. Each IdeaAnchor instance encodes how each input paper should be synthesized into a successful idea, including their functional roles, relationships, and target synthesis criteria. We build this paradigm by mining instances from published papers, capturing how real ideas emerge from prior literature. We then train models via demonstration, self-distillation, and reinforcement learning, and further enhance generation with retrieval at inference time. Experiments show consistent improvements in ideation quality. Our analysis reveals a functional decomposition: anchor-based training strengthens creative synthesis, retrieval enhances detail elaboration, and combining both yields the best performance.

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