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

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

  2. Agentic Empirical Asset Pricing: Methodological Foundations

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Dr. Claw: An AI Scientist Workspace for Vibe Research

    Aug 31, 2026Dingjie Song, Hanrong Zhang, Dawei Liu +10AutoresearchAgent Execution

  6. Autoresearch for Marketplace Catalogs: From Legacy Forms to AI-Native Matching

    Aug 31, 2026Kartik Ravisankar, Hojat Abdolanezhad, Daniel Capo +3Agentic CommerceTaxonomy

  7. Bridging Lexical Divergence: LLM-Assisted, Cost-Efficient, Zero-shot Scientific Entity Linking

    Aug 31, 2026Md Rasel Khondokar, Qiao Qiao, Farjana Sultana Samia +3Medical OntologyScientific Discovery

  8. Recursive Criticality of AI Self-Improvement

    Aug 31, 2026Mikhail BurtsevRecursive Self-ImprovementArtificial Intelligence Research

  9. PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Yuhan Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Yuchen Yan +6RubricsArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  10. Learning to Evaluate Before Improving: Automatic Rubric Induction for Automatic Research Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Xuehai Wang, Haowei Qin, Tongxin Liu +6AutoresearchRubrics

  11. ScienceArena: Benchmarking LLMs on Latest Scientific Olympiad Competitions

    Aug 31, 2026Guangxiang Zhao, Qilong Shi, Xusen Xiao +13Olympiad-Level ProblemScientific Discovery

  12. Beneath the Diff: Diagnosing and Mitigating Algorithmic Mode Collapse in Code-Level Autonomous Research Loops

    Aug 31, 2026Bowei He, Weixu Zhang, Yili Jin +1Code QualityAgent Loop

  13. Quantitative Evidence Mining for Plausibility-Aware Biomedical AI: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework

    Aug 31, 2026Negin Sadat Babaiha, Stefan Geissler, Marie-Christine Simon +2Biomedical KnowledgeSystematic Review

  14. SPARK: Skeleton-Guided Reasoning Synthesis from Large-Scale Scientific Literature

    Aug 31, 2026Yu Li, Wei Li, Xin Gao +4Table Reasoning DatasetsScientific Discovery

  15. Science sandboxes measure the scientific capability of AI agents

    Aug 31, 2026Arya S. Rao, Rodrigo I. Castro, Sager J. Gosai +8Scientific DiscoverySandbox

  16. 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 DiscoveryLarge Language Model Reasoning

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

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

  18. Automated Researchers Can Mitigate Well-characterized Alignment Failures

    Aug 28, 2026Chen Yueh-Han, Jiaxin Wen, Jan Hendrik KirchnerArtificial Intelligence AlignmentMisalignment

  19. RATIO: A Benchmark for Retrieval Across Typed Ideation Operations in Scientific Literature

    Aug 27, 2026Maayan Sharon, Tom HopeIdeasInformation Retrieval Metrics

  20. BixBench3: Benchmarking AI agents on research-study-scale computational biology tasks

    Aug 26, 2026Zane Koch, Asmamaw T. Wassie, Javier Valdes-Aleman +5Scientific Workflows

  21. FrontierChallenge: Evaluating Scientific Workflow Completion

    Aug 25, 2026Liangcai Su, Zhaopeng Feng, Zhuo Chen +14Scientific WorkflowsWorkflow Automation and Optimization

  22. Memory Is Not Always Needed: Characterizing Conditional Memory in Scientific Reasoning

    Aug 25, 2026Zhen Bi, Xueshu Chen, Yan Wang +6Cognitive MemoryScientific Discovery

  23. Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

    Aug 24, 2026Stephen Chung, Wenyu Du, William J. WesleyAutoresearchArtificial Intelligence Agents

  24. K-Bench: measuring model performance on real scientific agent requests

    Aug 21, 2026Aubrey M. Brueckner, Darshil Patel, Yuhuan He +1Llm-As-A-JudgeArtificial Intelligence Research

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

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

  26. AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out

    Aug 18, 2026Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Bruno +3AutoresearchCode Generation

  27. OmniScientist: An Omni-Modal Omni-Discipline AI Scientist

    Aug 13, 2026Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Tianjie Ju +2Scientific DiscoveryOmni-Modal

  28. Edit2TikZ: A Comprehensive and Challenging Benchmark for Scientific Figure Editing with TikZ

    Aug 13, 2026Zongyun Zhang, Jiacheng Ruan, Xian Gao +5Image EditingMultimodal Knowledge Editing

  29. Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research

    Aug 13, 2026Damon Falck, Samer Sabri, Anja Surina +8Artificial Intelligence ScientistsReproducibility

  30. How Do VLMs Behave When Blind or Misled? Behavioral Evaluation of VLMs on Scientific Figures

    Aug 13, 2026Paul Osemudiame Oamen, Owusu-Banahene Osei, Ananya Mukherjee +4Vision-LanguageIllusions

  31. AQuA: Recursively Self-Improving Quantitative Trading Research Agents

    Aug 13, 2026Jiacheng Guo, Suozhi Huang, Yunlong Gao +4AutoresearchRecursive Self-Improvement

  32. ARAC: Benchmarking Auto-Research's Alignment and Completeness on End-to-End Researchs

    Aug 13, 2026Jiale Cui, Yueyao Yuan, Kaixi Zhong +3AutoresearchUnified Evaluation

  33. Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence

    Aug 12, 2026Mengru Wang, Junfeng Fang, Shuofei Qiao +16Artificial Intelligence SafetyArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  34. TRACES: A Benchmark for Epistemic Reliability in Scientific Reasoning by LLMs

    Aug 11, 2026Valentin Rodionov, Shamil AssylbekovLarge Language Model ReliabilityScientific Discovery

  35. When Self-Consistency Backfires: Majority Vote Hurts the Majority of Hard Science Problems for Small LLMs

    Aug 11, 2026Utkarsh BahugunaSelf-ConsistencyInstruction-Tuned Models

  36. Long-Horizon AI Research for Grothendieck Constant: A Case Study in Human-AI Mathematical Collaboration

    Aug 11, 2026Alan Li, Rahul Saha, Anton Xue +4MathematicsArtificial Intelligence Research

  37. MUSE: A Full-Text Cross-Domain Knowledge Base of Scientific Problems, Solutions, and Rationales

    Aug 11, 2026Tsofia Cohen, Tom HopeScientific DiscoveryLarge Language Model Reasoning

  38. Tree-of-Ideas: Automated Research Ideation via Cross-Trajectory Reasoning over Scholarly Evolution

    Aug 11, 2026Xun Li, Yiying Yang, Pengtao Li +8IdeasAutoresearch

  39. Recovering Wasted Compute in Autoresearch Agents

    Aug 11, 2026Au Kwok Chun, Abhigyan Acherjee, Amrutha Rao +4AutoresearchTree Search

  40. DSAgentBench: Can Agents Automate End-to-End Data-Science Workflows in Real Computer Environments?

    Aug 11, 2026Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub +3Opti-Agent-BenchScientific Workflows

  41. Sci-VBench: Evaluating Knowledge- and Reasoning-Intensive Video Generation in Science Domains

    Aug 10, 2026Diandian Zhang, Tingyu Song, Lin Fu +2High-Fidelity Video GenerationScientific Discovery

  42. Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing

    Aug 10, 2026Yifeng He, Jicheng Wang, Yinzhe Zhao +2AutoresearchFuzzing

  43. Multi-agent discovery of practical quantum LDPC codes

    Aug 10, 2026Dongheng Qian, Tianyi LiQuantum Error CorrectionSource-Channel Coding

  44. Automating and Scaling Behavioral Scientific Research on AI Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Soo Yong Lee, Jongha Lee, Jaewan Chun +7AutoresearchArtificial Intelligence Agents

  45. How Can Rhetoric Reward-Hack AI Reviewers? Dissecting Rhetorical Sensitivity in AI-Based Peer Review

    Aug 10, 2026Ming Li, Chenguang Wang, Xirui Li +5Artificial Intelligence ReviewersReview

  46. Idea Search: Guiding Tree Search with Ideas to Explore Diverse Scientific Methods

    Aug 9, 2026Xuefei Julie Wang, Hao Cui, Michael P. Brenner +1Tree SearchScientific Discovery

  47. AquiLLM: An Architecture for Supporting Tacit Knowledge Capture in Research Groups

    Aug 9, 2026Jack Stark, Srinath Saikrishnan, Vikram Seenivasan +3Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsScientific Discovery

  48. Enhancing Scientific Named Entity Recognition via Large Language Models: A Type-driven Multi-task Learning Approach

    Aug 9, 2026Tong Bao, Yi Zhao, Heng Zhang +1Named-Entity RecognitionScientific Discovery

  49. Abstracted Away: Resisting Alienation and Ungrounded Abstraction in AI Research Communities

    Aug 9, 2026Vyoma Raman, Isabel O. Gallegos, Neha SrivathsaArtificial Intelligence ResearchArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  50. Guixu: Valuation-Driven Data Discovery for Autonomous AI Agents with On-Chain Attestation

    Aug 8, 2026Yifan Wu, Yuchen Peng, Jiaqi Chai +4Data CollectionArtificial Intelligence Agents

  51. SCALE: Scientific Concept Aggregation via LLMs and Embeddings for Fine-Grained Taxonomy Extension

    Aug 7, 2026Daniele Raimondi, Feichi Lu, Oliver Grun +2TaxonomyScientific Discovery

  52. HNR-DAC: Hard-Negative Reranking and Distribution-Aligned Classification for Scientific Claim Verification

    Aug 7, 2026Zhenchao Wang, Xin Chen, Luoxi Zhang +2Noisy Claim VerificationCitations

  53. Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery

    Aug 7, 2026Taolin Han, Yuchen Zhang, Jinghang Wang +22Scientific Discovery

  54. The Optimizer Is the Agent: Reasoning-Driven Search across Prompts, Programs, and ML Workflows

    Aug 7, 2026Junbo Li, Boyi Liu, Canwen Xu +5Agentic OptimizationAutoresearch

  55. Research Assistant: AstraZeneca's Agentic System for R&D

    Aug 6, 2026Piotr Grabowski, Mohamed Alameen, Jorge Bretones +16AutoresearchAgentic Systems

  56. SEAM: Global consistency beyond local accuracy in scientific machine learning

    Aug 6, 2026Gnankan Landry Regis N'guessan, Bum Jun KimScientific DiscoveryExplainability

  57. SCI-CLIP: Segment-Centric Inference with Reference Memory for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Aug 6, 2026Mohamad Zamini, Diksha ShuklaOpen-VocabularyFrozen Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Visual Encoder

  58. Enhancing Anomaly Resilience in Research Networks: A Large-Scale Forecasting Benchmark for Dynamic Security Baselining

    Aug 6, 2026Mohammad Arafath Uddin Shariff, Byrav RamamurthyAnomaly DetectionAccurate Traffic Forecasting

  59. AutoScientist-Quant: Self-Evolving Coding Agents for Automatic Research in Quantitative Investment

    Aug 5, 2026Zongqian Li, Yaoyiran Li, Yaohui Guo +3AutoresearchSelf-Evolving Agents

  60. Hierarchical Server Architecture for Agentic Science

    Aug 5, 2026Vanessa Sochat, Daniel MilroyWorkloadScientific Discovery