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  1. AutoSciBench: Autonomous Benchmark Generation for Evaluating Scientific Agents

    Oct 4, 2026Dongki Kim, Namkyeong Lee, Surag Nair +7Scientific Agents

    Genentech · KAIST

  2. ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research

    Oct 1, 2026Sohyeon Kim, Yoonho Lee, Bo Liu +11Scholar Information DatabaseScientific Agents

    Stanford University · Seoul National University · University of Washington +3

  3. PathAnchor: Path-Structured Evidence for Scientific Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Qiuhui Chen, Jiafan Lu, Shuaimin Tang +5CitationsScientific Discovery

    School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology · College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · Tencent

  4. Where Scientific Search Agents Fail: Decision-Checkpoint Auditing of Exposure and Inspection Attempts

    Sep 29, 2026Hongmin Li, Wanli ZhaoScientific AgentsSearch Algorithms

    School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo Tokyo, Japan · Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Kashiwa, Japan · Department of Information Science Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University Higashihiroshima, Japan

  5. MechBench: Can AI Scientific Agents Discover Mechanisms Beyond Phenomenal Laws?

    Sep 28, 2026Zihan Yu, Jiadong Zhang, Jialin Cheng +2Scientific Agents

    Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beijing Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China +2

  6. SRHarness: A Harness for Agentic Symbolic Regression

    Sep 28, 2026Zihan Yu, Shixuan Zhou, Hao Huang +2Symbolic RegressionAgent Harness

    Department of Electronic Engineering, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  7. From Weak Task Specifications to Scientific Extraction Agents: Optimizing Task Construction

    Sep 28, 2026Zixiao Dong, Wei Yang, Zihao Liu +4Synthetic TaskExtraction

    School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China · State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence · University of Science and Technology of China +1

  8. The Marathon of Scientific Reasoning: Robustness of Scientific Agents to Perturbations in Multi-Turn Interactions

    Sep 28, 2026Xiaoting Lyu, Xinbo Ma, Yufei Han +5Scientific DiscoveryScientific Agents

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, China · Inria, France · Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore +1

  9. DISCERN: Can AI Agents Work Like Scientists and Guide Discovery?

    Sep 27, 2026Nan Huang, Mario Tapia-Pacheco, Kun Zhou +4Scientific AgentsData Science Agents

    University of California San Diego · Independent Researcher

  10. ScholarStack: Layered Research Asset Orchestration and Cross-Task Reuse for Scientific Agents

    Sep 20, 2026ScholarSeed AI Team, Caoqinwei Gong, Xue Jiang +17Scholar Information DatabaseResearch Automation

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group

  11. ScientistTwo: Pioneering the Human Knowledge Frontier with Autonomous AI

    Sep 17, 2026Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Yanzhou Pan +4Artificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Agents

    Google Cloud AI Research · University of Waterloo

  12. PrimeScientist: Strategic Allocation of Research Effort in Autonomous Research

    Sep 15, 2026Xinle Yu, Fan Bai, Kaiser Sun +5Artificial Intelligence ResearchScientific Agents

    UC San Diego · Johns Hopkins University

  13. ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

    Sep 15, 2026Shuhan Xue, Jianyuan Zhong, Ziyuan Nan +10Scientific AgentsRecursive Self-Improvement

  14. HypoEvolve: Genetic Algorithms Enable Multi-Agent LLMs to Discover Scientific Hypotheses

    Sep 14, 2026Jieyuan Liu, Mengzhou Hu, Jefferson Chen +10Hypothesis-Driven Model ExpansionMulti-Agent Evolution

    University of California San Diego · 2Texas A&M University · 3Carnegie Mellon University +1

  15. EvoSCM: Scientific Belief Revision Through Causal Model Evolution and Experimentation

    Sep 1, 2026Qing Zhao, Haowei Li, Weijian Deng +3Scientific DiscoveryScientific Agents

    Sun Yat-sen University · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  16. A Human-AI Theorem Connecting Spontaneous and Field-Induced Mechanisms of Collective Behavior in One Dimension

    Aug 31, 2026Weiguo YinHuman-Ai CollaborationSpatial Photonic Ising Machines

    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA

  17. COGTRL: Training LLMs for Scientific Discovery Assistance using Cognitive Traces via Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 31, 2026Shrinidhi Kumbhar Santosh Mashetty Divij Handa Kevin Coutinho, Siddharth Sambhaji Ghule, Chitta BaralScientific DiscoveryLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Arizona State University

  18. Scientific Agent Skills: A Library of Procedural Knowledge for Research Agents

    Aug 30, 2026Timothy Kassis, Vinayak Agarwal, Yuhuan He +2Reusable Agent SkillsScientific Workflows

    K-Dense, Inc.

  19. FrontierChallenge: Evaluating Scientific Workflow Completion

    Aug 25, 2026Liangcai Su, Zhaopeng Feng, Zhuo Chen +14Scientific WorkflowsAgentic Workflow Design

    Apodex Team

  20. SWE-bench Science: Can Coding Agents Resolve Engineering Tasks in Science?

    Aug 20, 2026Zhipeng Xu, Jiahao Lu, Yining Zheng +2Swe-Bench VerifiedSoftware Engineering

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · Fudan University

  21. Scaling Scientific Discovery Environments for Turn-Level Agentic RL

    Jul 31, 2026Yucheng Xu, Keyi Zhang, Yuyang Yu +4Scientific AgentsAgentic Discovery

    Shanghai AI Lab

  22. Extremal Chowla sets and their linear analogues: A human-AI mathematical investigation using Co-Scientist

    Jul 25, 2026Mohsen Aliabadi, Keith Driscoll, Elliot Krop +3Finite GroupsExtremes

    Clayton State University · Google Cloud AI Research · Google DeepMind

  23. AIFS-TC: A simple correction competitive with the operational frontier for tropical cyclone intensity forecasting

    Jul 24, 2026Anna Allen, Wessel P. Bruinsma, Michael Maier-Gerber +3Artificial Intelligence Weather ModelsTropical Cyclones

    University of Cambridge · 2European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

  24. SciExplore: Evaluating Autonomous Agents from Scientific Navigation to Information Integration

    Jul 23, 2026Yinhao Tang, Youqing Fang, Yanan Sun +6Scientific DiscoveryScientific Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · Shanghai AI Laboratory

  25. Scientific exploration, collaboration and labor division in the large language model era

    Jul 23, 2026Xiang Zheng, Xi Hong, Jialin Liu +1Scientific DiscoveryScientific Agents

    Information School, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

  26. Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists

    Jul 20, 2026Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Lucy Lu Wang, Joseph Chee Chang +1Scientific AgentsVisual Analytics

    Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA · Allen Institute for AI · The Information School University of Washington Allen Institute for AI Seattle, WA, USA +1

  27. From Overload to Insights: How AI Agents Can Support Scientists in Analyzing Complex Data

    Jul 18, 2026Tim Fuchs, Luca Gelisio, Steffen Hauf +1Scientific AgentsData Science Agents

    University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany · European XFEL Schenefeld, Germany · Hasso Plattner Institute University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

  28. Rethinking Scientific Discovery in the Agentic Era

    Jul 4, 2026Yining Zheng, Yuxin Wang, Jiahao Lu +27Scientific AgentsScientific Discovery

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · Fudan University · East China Normal University

  29. A Precedent-Guided Co-Scientist for Side-Effect-Aware Drug Redesign

    Jul 3, 2026Yujin Kim, Charmgil HongDrug DiscoveryPharmacokinetics

    Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Handong Global University, Pohang, Republic of Korea.

  30. PHREEQC-MCQ-200: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Scientific Simulator Agents

    Jul 1, 2026Ke Zhang, Sahchit Chundur, Mohammad Javad Qomi +1MemoryagentbenchScientific Agents

    University of California, Riverside · University of California, Irvine

  31. Socratic agents for autonomous scientific discovery in high-dimensional physical systems

    Jun 25, 2026Xianrui Zeng, Pengfei Liu, Yirui Zang +5Scientific AgentsScientific Discovery

    Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, China. · Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China. · Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200433, China. +1

  32. Making AI Scientists Auditable from Evidence to Claim

    Jun 17, 2026Zijian Wang, Hanqi Li, Ziyue Yang +17Artificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Agents

    X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou, China · Shanghai Innovation Institution, Shanghai, China +1

  33. PseudoBench: Measuring How Agentic Auto-Research Fuels Pseudoscience

    Jun 16, 2026Xinyang Liao, Lingyu Li, Huacan Liu +5Scientific AgentsScientific Discovery

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  34. Thinking Like a Scientist? A Structural Study of LLM-Generated Research Methods

    Jun 15, 2026Francesca Carlon, Brecht Verbeken, Vincent Ginis +1MethodologyResearch Automation

    1Data Analytics Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium · 2imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels, Belgium · School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  35. AI can help scientists publish less

    Jun 11, 2026Gianfranco BertoneJournalScientific Agents

    Gravitation Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam (GRAPPA), University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  36. Fantastic Scientific Agents and How to Build Them: AgentBuild for Rietveld Refinement

    Jun 11, 2026Woong Shin, Craig A. Bridges, Marshall T. McDonnell +1Scientific WorkflowsScientific Agents

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

  37. Notes2Skills: From Lab Notebooks to Certainty-Aware Scientific Agent Skills

    Jun 10, 2026Shi Liu, Jiayao Chen, Chengwei Qin +3Scientific AgentsScientific Workflows

    Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China +1

  38. Search Discipline for Long-Horizon Research Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Adithya Srinivasan, Devesh ParagiriScientific AgentsAgentic Evaluations

    Department of Computer Science · North Carolina State University · University of Maryland

  39. Advancing Wood Identification in the Philippines: Utilizing the Xylorix Platform for Efficient AI Model Development and Deployment for Five Key Species

    Jun 9, 2026Rosalie C. Mendoza, Vivian C. Daracan, Arlene D. Romano +4Species IdentificationTrees

    College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Banos · Agritix

  40. Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Designs Physically Reasoned White-Box Fluid Control

    Jun 7, 2026Boai Sun, Wenjin Guo, Zongmin Yu +1Control ArchitectureFull-Body Humanoid Control

    National University of Singapore, Singapore.

  41. SciTrace: Trajectory-Aware Safety Reasoning for Scientific Discovery Agents

    Jun 6, 2026Tanush Swaminathan, Runmin Jiang, Letian Zhang +1Scientific AgentsScientific Workflows

    Carnegie Mellon University · Allen Institute

  42. Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?

    Jun 4, 2026Mandana Samiei, Eunice Yiu, Anthony GX-Chen +5Scientific AgentsPassive

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute · McGill University · University of California Berkeley +4

  43. AutoSci: A Memory-Centric Agentic System for the Full Scientific Research Lifecycle

    May 29, 2026Weitong Qian, Beicheng Xu, Zhongao Xie +16Scientific WorkflowsScientific Agents

    Peking University, Beijing, China

  44. Physics Is All You Need? A Case Study in Physicist-Supervised AI Development of Scientific Software

    May 28, 2026Nhat-Minh NguyenArtificial Intelligence ScientistsArtificial Intelligence Agents

    Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan · Center for Data-Driven Discovery, Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan · Institute For Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Education, ICISE, Quy Nhon, 55121, Vietnam

  45. AutoScientists: Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation

    May 27, 2026Shanghua Gao, Ada Fang, Marinka ZitnikScientific AgentsArtificial Intelligence Agents

    Harvard University

  46. ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence

    May 25, 2026Rui Meng, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiefeng Chen +10Research AutomationScientific Agents

    Google Cloud AI Research

  47. GRAIL: AI translation for scientists application workflow on satellite data

    May 23, 2026Zhuocheng Shang, Ahmed EldawyPythonSatellite Data

    University of California, Riverside · Riverside, California

  48. Mind the Sim-to-Real Gap & Think Like a Scientist

    May 20, 2026Harsh Parikh, Gabriel Levin-Konigsberg, Dominique Perrault-Joncas +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningSim-To-Real Gap

    Amazon SCOT, Seattle, USA · Yale University, New Haven, USA · Duke University, Durham, USA

  49. AgentCo-op: Retrieval-Based Synthesis of Interoperable Multi-Agent Workflows

    May 19, 2026Shuaike Shen, Wenduo Cheng, Shike Wang +2Multi-Agent WorkflowsScientific Agents

    1Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University · 2Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

  50. MaD Physics: Evaluating information seeking under constraints in physical environments

    May 11, 2026Moksh Jain, Mehdi Bennani, Johannes Bausch +4Scientific AgentsDynamic Environments

    Google DeepMind · Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal · Work done during an internship at Google DeepMind

  51. Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents

    May 11, 2026Rong Shan, Te Gao, Hang Zheng +6JournalScientific Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Central South University · Carnegie Mellon University

  52. Agentic AI Scientists Are Not Built For Autonomous Scientific Discovery

    May 9, 2026Harshit Bisht, Vinay Kumar, Kevin Maik Jablonka +2Artificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Agents

    Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi · Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena · Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena +3

  53. CellScientist: From Execution Feedback to Auditable Model-Revision Trajectories for Cellular Perturbation Prediction

    May 8, 2026Mengran Li, Bo Li, Jiaying Wang +7Virtual CellSingle-Cell Perturbation Prediction

    Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Hong Kong Institute of Science and Innovation (HKISI)

  54. The implicated scientist: on the role of AI researchers in the development of weapons systems

    Apr 20, 2026Alexandra Volokhova, Alex Hernandez-GarciaArtificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Agents

    Universit´e de Montr´eal, Mila – Quebec AI Institute Montreal, QC, Canada

  55. The Agentification of Scientific Research: A Physicist's Perspective

    Apr 16, 2026Xiao-Liang QiScientific DiscoveryScientific Agents

    Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

  56. VERITAS: A Multi-Agent Co-Scientist for Verifiable Image-Derived Hypothesis Testing

    Apr 13, 2026Lucas Stoffl, Benedikt Wiestler, Johannes C. PaetzoldMultimodal Clinical DataReference-Guided Multimodal In-Context Verification

    Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA · Cornell Tech, New York, USA · TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany +2

  57. AutoSDT: Scaling Data-Driven Discovery Tasks Toward Open Co-Scientists

    Jun 9, 2025Yifei Li, Hanane Nour Moussa, Ziru Chen +16Artificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Agents

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering · The Ohio State University · Department of Chemistry +6

  58. Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist

    Feb 26, 2025Juraj Gottweis, Wei-Hung Weng, Alexander Daryin +48Scientific AgentsScientific Discovery

  59. EvoMaster: A Foundational Evolving Agent Framework for Agentic Science at Scale

    Date pendingXinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu +20Self-Evolving AgentsScientific Agents

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. · SciLand, Shanghai, China. · DP Technology, Beijing, China.