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  1. SoL-Pi: Recursively Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent Harness

    Sep 17, 2026Haozhe Liu, Tian Ye, Sensen Gao +11Agent HarnessAutoresearch

  2. The Organization of Inference: Information, Resource Constraints, and AI Production

    Sep 17, 2026Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen ChenOnline InferenceArtificial Intelligence Systems

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

    Sep 17, 2026Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Yanzhou Pan +4AutoresearchScientific Agents

  4. Efficiently Linking Unstructured Data for Multi-step Reasoning

    Sep 16, 2026Jiaming Liang, Haydn Jones, Jacob R. Gardner +2Retrieval RecallSemantic Similarity Metrics

  5. ScienceIDE: Turning World's Scientific Codebase into Agent Learnable Environments

    Sep 16, 2026Hejia Geng, Zesen Huang, Haoyang Li +42Scientific DiscoveryCoding Agents

  6. ReFigBench: Benchmarking Scientific Figure Reconstruction as Editable PowerPoint Artifacts

    Sep 16, 2026Liyang Fan, Chi Wei, Yitai Li +8Multimodal AgentsMultimodal Documents

  7. Beyond frequency measures: Can contextual embeddings capture meaning change in scientific texts?

    Sep 16, 2026Jianying Liu, Kim Gerdes, Jean-Marc DeltornReal Datacite DoisScientific Discovery

  8. Hypothesis-Driven Autonomous Materials Synthesis with Multimodal LLM Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Izumi Takahara, Kazunori Nishio, Akira Aiba +4Data-Driven Materials DiscoveryAutomated Synthesis Techniques

  9. REPAIR: Resolving Long-Tail Confusion in Scientific Retrievers via Fact-Verified Iterative Refinement

    Sep 16, 2026Yerim Oh, Gunhee KimScientific DiscoverySynthetic Data Augmentation

  10. Time-Aligned Evolving Concept Graphs for Scientific Relation Forecasting

    Sep 16, 2026Fred Sun, Jingze Wang, Minkun Xu +1Knowledge GraphsScientific Discovery

  11. Agora: Git as Shared Memory for Collective AutoResearch

    Sep 16, 2026Yifan Zhang, Yunheng Zou, Shaokun Zhang +5AutoresearchCommits

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

    Sep 15, 2026Xinle Yu, Fan Bai, Kaiser Sun +5AutoresearchArtificial Intelligence Research

  13. AI and Human Approaches to Mathematical Problem Solving

    Sep 15, 2026Yang DingMath ProblemsArtificial Intelligence Research

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

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

  15. Rethinking Domain Specialization for Open-Ended Scientific Reasoning in Astronomy Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Vanessa Lama, Sanjay Das, Emily Herron +5Scientific Discovery

  16. Lit3R: Retrieve-Relate-Read for Evidence-Grounded Question Answering over Scientific Literature

    Sep 15, 2026Akira Ise, Kotaro Kumagai, Yuta Yamaguchi +3Scientific DiscoveryRelate

  17. AquiLLM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Open-Weight RAG-LLM Systems for Scientific Research

    Sep 15, 2026Bernie Boscoe, Srinath Saikrishnan, Vikram Seenivasan +6Scientific DiscoveryScientific Workflows

  18. Geospatial Metadata Improves Discoverability by Connecting Datasets Across Scientific Disciplines

    Sep 15, 2026Daniel Ebanks, Devika JainGeospatialInterdisciplinary Knowledge Discovery

  19. The AI-Enabled Scientific Frontier

    Sep 14, 2026Gabriel Manso, Emma Fu, Neil ThompsonScientific DiscoveryMethodology

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

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

  21. AlgoEvo: Self-Evolving Agentic Search for Automated Algorithm Discovery

    Sep 14, 2026Junhao Qiu, Qinglong Hu, Xialiang Tong +3Modular Agentic FrameworkAutoresearch

  22. Assembling the CREW: A Collaborative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Automated Related Work Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Hai-Dang Dang, Bao-Yen Pham, Bao Nguyen +2Workflow GenerationMulti-Agent Large Language Model

  23. Who Teaches Which Token? Verifier-Gated Multi-Expert On-Policy Distillation for Scientific Reasoning

    Sep 14, 2026Xun Xu, Zaixi ZhangOn-Policy DistillationScientific Discovery

  24. OpenAI4S: Code as Action, Science as Sessions

    Sep 14, 2026Gongbo Zhang, Hao Li, Yu Wang +15Scientific WorkflowsAutoresearch

  25. Autonomous Research for Open-Ended Problems: A Case Study on Telecom Ticket Retrieval

    Sep 14, 2026Junghyun Min, Huseyin Uzunalioglu, Mohamed TrabelsiAutoresearchLlm-Driven

  26. Earth-Agent-Pro: Towards Real-World Full-Chain Earth Observation with Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Zhutao Lv, Chenhao Dang, Yi Feng +5Cloud-Aware Earth Observation SequencesAgent Framework

  27. How Good Are Frontier Models at Physics? Expert Re-Grading Reveals Broken Evaluations and Near-Saturation of Leading Benchmarks

    Sep 14, 2026Ali Ansari, Haoran Sun, Andy Zeyi Liu +48Benchmarking Large Language ModelsFrontier Models

  28. Geometric Signatures of Conceptual Reorganization: A Counterfactual Embedding Framework for Detecting Scientific Revolutions

    Sep 14, 2026Dimitris Ntounis, Ariel Schwartzman, Chris Chafe +1Scientific DiscoveryComparison

  29. How broad is that claim? Mapping Generalisation in NLP Research

    Sep 13, 2026Chenxin Diao, Nataliya Stepanova, Emily AllawayScientific DiscoveryGeneralisation

  30. Sci-MMR: Benchmarking Multi-Step Evidence-Grounded Scientific Reasoning in Multimodal Agents

    Sep 12, 2026Jiaqiang Li, Yajie Yang, Zhiheng Xi +15Scientific DiscoveryRelation-Conditioned Evidence Encoder

  31. Studying Without a Syllabus: Task-Agnostic Environment Preprocessing

    Sep 12, 2026Vinay Samuel, Varun Ursekar, Vijay S. Kalmath +3Large Language Model AgentsAutoresearch

  32. Autonomous Chemical Mechanistic Discovery through Agentic Reasoning and Validation

    Sep 12, 2026Dong Li, Sixuan Mi, Zihao Ye +10ReactionComputational Chemistry

  33. Auto-RecSys: Harnessing Autonomous Research Agents for Industry-Scale Recommender System

    Sep 11, 2026Ming Li, Dai Li, Xuying Ning +11AutoresearchLong-Horizon Tasks

  34. INDRA: A New AI Tool for Exploring Tobacco, Fossil Fuel, and Chemical Industry Archives

    Sep 11, 2026Daniel Akselrad, Robert N. ProctorContent ProvenanceAi-Driven

  35. Scores Alone Do Not Prove Discovery: The Discovery Certification Protocol for Auditing AI Research Agents

    Sep 10, 2026Jingjie Ning, Shanshan Zhong, Xiaochuan Li +1Artificial Intelligence ResearchFeedback Learning

  36. OpenDiscoveryTrace: Process Traces for Evaluating AI Scientist Workflows

    Sep 10, 2026Aayam Bansal, Keertan BalajiArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  37. IdeaAMBIG: Benchmarking Implementation-Critical Gaps in Research-Idea Specifications

    Sep 9, 2026Yiling Ma, Yilun Zhao, Sihong Wu +2ReproducibilityAutoresearch

  38. Avatar: Toward Autonomous End-to-End Orchestration of Scientific Workflows using LLMs

    Sep 9, 2026Suman Raj, Hai Duc Nguyen, Haochen Pan +3Agentic WorkflowsScientific Workflows

  39. Towards Automatic Evolution Tree Generation from Citation Graphs

    Sep 9, 2026Zexing Zhao, Yuntong Hu, Liang ZhaoTaxonomyCitations

  40. SciFigure2Code: An AI-Reconstructed Benchmark for Scientific Figure-to-Code

    Sep 8, 2026Wentao Li, Yibo Wu, Yizhe Chen +5Scientific DiscoveryPapers

  41. Sparks of In Silico Cognitive Science: Theories from Simulated Data Can Generalize to Humans

    Sep 7, 2026Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby +4Cognitive ScienceUser Simulation

  42. Online Surrogate Repair: Decoupling High-Fidelity Feedback from Search Length in Closed-Loop Discovery

    Sep 7, 2026Xiaotang Feng, Philip Torr, Bruno AndreisAutoresearchFeedback Learning

  43. AgentIdeaBench: Benchmarking Scientific Ideation in the Agent Era

    Sep 7, 2026Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi Zheng, Yisen Gao +7IdeasArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  44. La Agente \'Optima: Towards Agentic Self-Driving Laboratories

    Sep 7, 2026Marcel Müller, Jiaru Bai, Willi Gottstein +14Agentic OptimizationAutoresearch

  45. MetaRSI / RSI2: A Meta-Recursive Self-Improving System for Recursive Self-Improving Systems Themselves

    Sep 6, 2026Zihan Tan, Leixin Sun, Zitong Shi +28Recursive Self-ImprovementRecursion

  46. TruthInsightBench: An Evidence-Grounded Benchmark for Automated Evaluation of Open-Ended Scientific Discovery Agents

    Sep 4, 2026Zhibo Yang, Chen Zhang, Yuewei Zhang +1Artificial Intelligence ScientistsAutoresearch

  47. A computable representation of the physical laboratory enables verifiable workflows

    Sep 3, 2026Xiaobo Li, Luyao Ge, Xiaohui Li +8Scientific WorkflowsAgentic Workflows

  48. HyGRAIL: Cost-Aware and Evidence-Grounded Scientific Hypothesis Discovery over Knowledge Graphs

    Sep 2, 2026Yihang Sun, Zhihan Zhu, Zhiyuan Jiang +3Knowledge GraphsHypothesis Generation

  49. Can LLMs Discover Scientific Laws in Real and Parallel Worlds?

    Sep 1, 2026Yiming Huang, Ziche Liu, Zhuohang Wu +11Scientific DiscoveryBenchmarking Large Language Models

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

    Sep 1, 2026Qing Zhao, Haowei Li, Weijian Deng +2Scientific DiscoveryScientific Agents

  51. Citing Less Critically: LLMs Reshape the Rhetoric and Reach of Scientific Citation

    Sep 1, 2026Yixuan Liu, Lin Chen, Zhuoqi Liu +2CitationsLarge Language Model Bias

  52. EdiTikZ: Scientific Figure Editing from Revision Trajectories

    Sep 1, 2026Christian Greisinger, Zhixue Zhao, Steffen EgerScientific DiscoveryMultimodal Knowledge Editing

  53. Position: Privacy Is a Claim, Not a Property of Synthetic Data

    Sep 1, 2026Jiachen Zhao, Antonia Januszewicz, Taeho JungSynthetic DataAI Privacy Risks and Protection

  54. Modelpedia: A Catalog of Model Findings for the Meta-Science of AI

    Sep 1, 2026Franciszek Bernat, Dawid Płudowski, Michał Jan Włodarczyk +6Artificial Intelligence ModelsScientific Discovery

  55. Figures as Programs: Recursive Generation of Editable Scientific Figures

    Sep 1, 2026Yepeng Liu, Dasen Dai, Chengzhi Liu +7Scalable Vector GraphicVisual Generation

  56. RingMoClaw: An Experience-Inspired Multi-Agent Framework for Self-Evolving Research in Remote Sensing

    Sep 1, 2026Kaiyue Kang, Qixuan He, Peijin Wang +9Remote SensingClaws

  57. Agentic programs: an emerging form of scientific software in computational materials science

    Sep 1, 2026Yunsung Lim, Haekwan Jeon, Jaesun Kim +2Molecular DynamicsScientific Discovery

  58. Agentic Empirical Asset Pricing: Methodological Foundations

    Sep 1, 2026Yingjian Pan, Xiaowei Ding, Kay GieseckeAgentic EvaluationsExploratory Factor Analysis

  59. SciTrue: Reliable Scientific Claim Validation with Frontier and Open Language Models at the NTCIR SciClaimEval Task

    Sep 1, 2026Qiming Bao, Neşet Özkan Tan, Siyuan Wang +1Noisy Claim VerificationScientific Discovery

  60. EGT-KG: Evidence-Grounded Typed KG Retrieval for Practical Scientific QA with Small Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Muran Yu, Jiechao Gao, Yuandong Pan +5Knowledge GraphsRetrievers