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  1. Extracting Problem and Method Sentence from Scientific Papers: A Context-enhanced Transformer Using Formulaic Expression Desensitization

    Jun 25, 2026Yingyi Zhang, Chengzhi ZhangScientific DiscoverySynthetic Data Augmentation

  2. Accelerating Returns and the Qualitative Engine for Science

    Jun 24, 2026Guojun LiaoScientific DiscoveryTechnology

  3. Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data

    Jun 24, 2026Ilia Kulikov, Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianhao Wu +12Synthetic DataArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  4. Can AI Draw Science? A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Figure Generation by Text-to-Image and Multimodal Models

    Jun 24, 2026Davie ChenDiagramsScientific Discovery

  5. Heuresis: Search Strategies for Autonomous AI Research Agents Across Quality, Diversity and Novelty

    Jun 23, 2026Antonis Antoniades, Deepak Nathani, Ritam Saha +6Autoresearch

  6. NatureBench: Can Coding Agents Match the Published SOTA of Nature-Family Papers?

    Jun 23, 2026Yuru Wang, Lejun Cheng, Yuxin Zuo +14Scientific DiscoveryAgentic Benchmarks

  7. S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editing

    Jun 23, 2026Qingxiao Li, Zikai Wang, Qingli Wang +1Image GenerationScientific Discovery

  8. Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy

    Jun 23, 2026Youran Sun, Xingyu Ren, Chugang Yi +4AutoresearchMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

  9. War in the Abstract: The Rise and Consequences of Militarized Language in Scientific Communication

    Jun 22, 2026Sovesh Mohapatra, David Lydon-Staley, Dani S. BassettGeopolitical SphereScientific Discovery

  10. Position: Correct Answer, Wrong Mechanism -- When AI Scientists Defend General Claims Their Own Data Contradicts

    Jun 22, 2026Steven Young EuligArtificial Intelligence ScientistsFalsehood

  11. Discovering Crystal Structure Prediction Algorithms with an AI Co-Scientist

    Jun 22, 2026Kiyoung Seong, Nayoung Kim, Sungsoo AhnCrystal StructureArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  12. AI Scientists as Engines of Discovery: A Case for Development within Reformed Institutions

    Jun 22, 2026Raul Jimenez, Boris Bolliet, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +7Artificial Intelligence ScientistsMulti-Agent Systems

  13. Closed-loop Auto Research for Molecular Property Prediction: Discovering and Certifying Generalizable Improvements

    Jun 22, 2026Jingjie Ning, Xiaochuan Li, Ji Zeng +2Molecular Property PredictionAutoresearch

  14. PaperClaw: Harnessing Agents for Autonomous Research and Human-in-the-Loop Refinement

    Jun 21, 2026Weiwei Ye, Hangchen Liu, Dongyuan Li +1AutoresearchHuman-In-The-Loop

  15. How Does Research Evolve? Tracing Cross-Domain Trajectories in NLP, ML, and CV with Claim-Grounded Typed Citations

    Jun 21, 2026Abdul Muntakim, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Sadid Hasan +1CitationsScientific Discovery

  16. OpenBioRQ: Unsolved Biomedical Research Questions for Agents

    Jun 20, 2026Minbyul JeongBiomedical KnowledgeMulti-Hop Question Answering Benchmarks

  17. Learning the ARTS of Search for Automated Discovery

    Jun 20, 2026Gurusha Juneja, Arnav Kumar Jain, Deepak Nathani +2Tree SearchAgentic Reasoning

  18. Finetuning with Scientific Data Increases Hallucinations: A Multi-domain Factuality Evaluation of LLMs

    Jun 19, 2026Raia Abu Ahmad, Nikolas Rauscher, Ekaterina Borisova +3FactsMultilingual Fact-Checking

  19. BASIL: Bayesian Application for Scientific Iteration and Learning

    Jun 19, 2026Kelvin P. Idanwekhai, Valeriia Kaneva, Stefano Menegatti +1Bayesian OptimizationMulti-Objective Optimization

  20. Negative Knowledge as Failure-aware Shared Memory for AutoResearch

    Jun 19, 2026Hanchun WangAutoresearchScientific Discovery

  21. Building Agent Harnesses for Scientific Curation from Multimodal Sources

    Jun 19, 2026Sheng Zhang, Qin Liu, Renqian Luo +9Data-CurationScientific Workflows

  22. SciLens: Multi-modal Scientific Claim Verification with Agentic Entailment and Grounding

    Jun 18, 2026Yueming Wang, Tianshi Zheng, Jiaxin Bai +3Scientific DiscoveryRelation-Conditioned Evidence Encoder

  23. Agentic AutoResearch forSpace Autonomy: An Auditable, LLM-Driven Research Agent for Aerospace Control Problems

    Jun 18, 2026Amit Jain, Richard LinaresAutoresearchAgentic Control

  24. FirstPass: Grounding AI Scientific Judgment in Multi-Round Editorial Outcomes

    Jun 18, 2026Prabhjot Singh, Somnath Luitel, Manmeet Singh +1Peer ReviewScientific Discovery

  25. Residual-Space Evolutionary Optimization via Flow-based Generative Models

    Jun 18, 2026Zhuo Cao, Lena Krieger, Fernanda Nader +3Diffusion EditingGenerative Models

  26. AI Economist Agent: An Agentic Framework for Evidence-Based Economic and Financial Analysis with RAG, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models

    Jun 18, 2026Masahiro KatoEconomiesPersonalized Large Language Model Agents

  27. Repeated post-training is not Self-improving: Diagnosing Scientific Amnesia in Continual DPO Pipelines

    Jun 17, 2026Jianzhe Lin, Fei Wang, Xiaolin Li +2Catastrophic ForgettingLLM Post-Training Methods

  28. AdsMind: A Physics-Grounded Multi-Agent System for Self-Correcting Discovery of Adsorption Configurations on Heterogeneous Catalyst Surfaces

    Jun 17, 2026Zongmin Zhang, Yuyang Lou, Bowen Zhang +6Heterogeneous CatalysisVast Chemical Space

  29. Externalizing Research Synthesis and Validation in AI Scientists through a Research Harness

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

  30. ScholarSum: Student-Teacher Abstractive Summarization via Knowledge Graph Reasoning and Reflective Refinement

    Jun 17, 2026Bohou Zhang, Xiaoyu Tao, Mingyue Cheng +2SummarizationScientific Discovery

  31. Complexity and Scale in AI-Assisted Workflow Management: A Federated Learning Case Study

    Jun 16, 2026Komal Thareja, Hamza Safri, Rajiv Mayani +2Scientific WorkflowsWorkflow Automation and Optimization

  32. ReproRepo: Scaling Reproducibility Audits with GitHub Repository Issues

    Jun 16, 2026Shanda Li, Qiuhong Anna Wei, Jingwu Tang +5ReproducibilityRepository

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

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

  34. The Shift Toward Open and Reproducible AI Research

    Jun 15, 2026Kevin L Coakley, Thijs Snelleman, Holger Hoos +1ReproducibilityArtificial Intelligence Research

  35. Speaking the Language of Science: Toward a General-Purpose Generative Foundation Model for the Natural Sciences

    Jun 15, 2026Mingyang Li, Yurou Liu, Jieping Ye +3Scientific DiscoveryLarge Language Model Generation

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

    Jun 15, 2026Francesca Carlon, Brecht Verbeken, Vincent Ginis +1MethodologySystematic Study

  37. SciText2Eq: Assessing LLMs for Explainable Equation Generation for Scientific Creativity

    Jun 14, 2026Yifan Mo, Xiao Fu, Yue Su +4Math ProblemsScientific Discovery

  38. Quantifying the Impact of Lossy Compression on Neural Generative Surrogate Modeling

    Jun 14, 2026Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Charles Jekel +2Context CompressionTraining Data

  39. SciOrch: Learning to Orchestrate Expert LLMs for Solving Frontier Multimodal Scientific Reasoning Tasks

    Jun 14, 2026Jingru Guo, Xiangyuan Xue, Lian Zhang +6Large Language Model ReasoningScientific Discovery

  40. LLM-Assisted Stance Detection in Scientific Discourse: A Test Case in Bayesian Cognitive Science

    Jun 14, 2026Eyup Engin Kucuk, Tarik Kelestemur, Ömer Dağlar TanrikuluQualitative ResearchLarge Language Model Reliability

  41. NIMO: A Software Platform for Closed-Loop Materials Exploration with Diverse AI Algorithms

    Jun 14, 2026Ryo Tamura, Naruki Yoshikawa, Koji Tsuda +1Data-Driven Materials DiscoveryAutoresearch

  42. Finite Resources False Discovery Rate Control in Structured Hypothesis Spaces

    Jun 13, 2026Binyamin Perets, Shie MannorFalse Discovery RateTwo-Sample Testing

  43. Remember, Don't Re-read: Stateful ReAct Agents for Token-Efficient Autonomous Experimentation

    Jun 12, 2026Faramarz JabbarvaziriAutoresearchAgent Framework

  44. CARE: Context-Aware Ranking Evolution with Executable Scoring Programs for Budgeted Reaction Optimization

    Jun 12, 2026Guanyu Liu, Weiyi Kong, Chao Tang +5Scientific Discovery

  45. Can Deep Neural Networks Improve Compression of Very Large Scientific Data?

    Jun 12, 2026Muhannad Alhumaidi, Guozhong Li, Spiros Skiadopoulos +1Context CompressionPredictive Coding

  46. Learning High Coverage Discriminative Parsimonious Rulesets

    Jun 12, 2026Mariamma Antony, Raman Sankaran, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya +1Discriminative ModelsDecision Trees

  47. AI can help scientists publish less

    Jun 11, 2026Gianfranco BertoneScientific Agents

  48. Agents-K1: Towards Agent-native Knowledge Orchestration

    Jun 11, 2026Zongsheng Cao, Bihao Zhan, Jinxin Shi +23Knowledge GraphsScientific Discovery

  49. EpiBench: Verifiable Evaluation of AI Agents on Epigenomics Analysis

    Jun 11, 2026Harihara Muralidharan, Reema Baskar, Soo Hee Lee +2Scientific WorkflowsArtificial Intelligence Agents

  50. LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories

    Jun 11, 2026Baochang Ren, Xinjie Liu, Xi Chen +15Vision-Language-Action ModelsRobocasa

  51. A Three-Layer Framework for AI in Scientific Discovery

    Jun 11, 2026Guojun LiaoScientific Discovery

  52. Examining the Cognitive Gap Between Authors and Peer Reviewers on Academic Paper Novelty

    Jun 11, 2026Chenggang Yang, Chengzhi ZhangPeer ReviewAuthorship

  53. Limits of spectral learning under noise

    Jun 11, 2026Sabin Roman, Ljupco Todorovski, Saso Dzeroski +2CoefficientsNoisy Labels

  54. SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs

    Jun 11, 2026Pierre Beckmann, Marco Valentino, Andre FreitasReasoning BenchmarkScientific Discovery

  55. (Human) Attention Is (Still) All You Need: Human oversight makes AI-assisted social science reliable

    Jun 11, 2026Chen Zhu, Xiaolu Wang, Weilong ZhangLarge Language Model ReliabilityAutoresearch

  56. 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

  57. Topical Phase Transitions in Artificial Intelligence Research: Large-Scale Evidence and an Early-Warning Signature for Emerging Topics

    Jun 11, 2026Rasul Khanbayov, Hasan KurbanArtificial Intelligence ResearchArtificial Intelligence Systems

  58. Benchmarking AI Agents for Addressing Scientific Challenges Across Scales

    Jun 10, 2026Tianyu Liu, Allen Xin Wang, Antonia Panescu +30Agentic BenchmarksAutoresearch

  59. The Mathematics of AI Winters: The mathematical Taxonomy of Paradigm Fragility in AI Winter

    Jun 10, 2026Miquel Noguer i Alonso, David Pacheco AznarArtificial Intelligence ResearchArtificial Intelligence Systems

  60. Helping Figures Tell their Story! Paper-Grounded Video Generation Explaining Complex Scientific Figures

    Jun 10, 2026Ishani Mondal, Javad Baghirov, Jordan Boyd-GraberLong Video GenerationVisual Storytelling