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  1. Compaction as Epistemic Failure: How Agentic LLM Tools Fabricate Confirmed Results from Killed Processes

    Jul 11, 2026Hiroki TambaLarge Language Model PerformanceCompaction

  2. IdeaTrail: Full-Process Agent Trajectories for Scientific Ideation

    Jul 11, 2026Hengquan GuoIdeasScientific Discovery

  3. GAE: Graph-Augmented Evolution for Scientific Discovery via Reinforcement Optimization

    Jul 11, 2026Xuanzhou Chen, Taoli ChengEvolutionary SearchEvolution

  4. Are We Ready for AI-Driven Discovery? AI Verification Before the Next Fundamental Physics Breakthrough

    Jul 10, 2026Gaia Grosso, Vinicius Mikuni, Lukas HeinrichScientific DiscoveryInductive Bias

  5. Toward Auditable AI Scientists: A Hypothesis Evolution Protocol for LLM Agents

    Jul 10, 2026Izumi Takahara, Teruyasu MizoguchiArtificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Discovery

  6. Evolutionary Intelligence for Scientific Discovery: From Evolutionary Computation to Cumulative Discovery Systems

    Jul 10, 2026Chao Wang, Lingling Li, Fang Liu +1Scientific DiscoveryEvolutionary Search

  7. An Autonomous Scientific Knowledge Generation Framework for AI-Driven Scientific Discovery

    Jul 9, 2026Dibakar DattaScientific DiscoveryData-Driven Materials Discovery

  8. Game Theory Driven Multi-Agent Framework Mitigates Language Model Hallucination

    Jul 9, 2026Runzhe Liu, Biquan Bie, Zihao Wang +7Multi-Agent Large Language ModelScientific Discovery

  9. DeepPySR -- A Symbolic Regression Framework with Dynamic Pruning, Pareto Selection, and Hierarchical Composition for Real-World Scientific Discovery

    Jul 9, 2026Fuling Chen, Kevin Vinsen, Phillip Melton +1Symbolic RegressionFeynman-Kac

  10. Accurate, Interdisciplinary and Transparent Structure-property Understanding with Deep Native Structural Reasoning

    Jul 8, 2026Chen Tang, Yizhou Wang, Jianyu Wu +26Vast Chemical SpaceScientific Discovery

  11. Integrating knowledge graphs and multilingual scholarly corpora for domain-adaptive LLMs in SSH

    Jul 7, 2026Adam Faci, Alessio Miaschi, Anne Combe +4Large Language Model AdaptationDomain-Adaptation Benchmark

  12. A Multimodal Reasoning Typology for Grounding Chart-Image Coherence in Science Communication

    Jul 6, 2026Avina Nakarmi, Sohom Sen, Xun Song +2ChartMultimodal Reasoning

  13. Compressing the Validation Bottleneck: An Agentic Self-Driving Lab for Scientific Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Kyunghoon Hur, Chihun LeeAutoresearchAgent Loop

  14. Language models guide symbolic equation discovery by controlling search

    Jul 5, 2026Zikai Xie, Wenmei Li, Man Luo +2Symbolic RegressionHypothesis Generation

  15. Dictionaries, Not Darwin: Set-Level Selection Beats LLM Evolution in Scientific Equation Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Pan LiScientific DiscoveryDeepseek

  16. Submitted and Diagnostic Analysis of Full-Text Temporal Retrieval for LongEval-Sci

    Jul 5, 2026Yingdong Yang, Haijian WuCitationsRetrieval Recall

  17. Rethinking Scientific Discovery in the Agentic Era

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

  18. Scientific Code Search at Scale: A Multi-Domain Dataset and Benchmark

    Jul 3, 2026Nishan Pantha, Pranath Reddy Kumbam, Sajil Awale +8RepositoryScientific Discovery

  19. Differentiate the Evaluator, Not the Program: An Efficient Runtime Representation for Neuro-Symbolic Learning

    Jul 3, 2026Lucas ShenemanDifferentiable ProgrammingNeuro-Symbolic Framework

  20. Large-scale dataset of automatically classified rhetorical sections in scientific papers

    Jul 3, 2026Daniel Verdi, Jacob Aarup Dalsgaard, Roberta SinatraScientific DiscoveryObject Classification

  21. Statistically Meaningful Geometry and Gauge Symmetry Breaking: A Geometric Foundation for Scientific Discovery and Intelligence Emergence

    Jul 3, 2026Bing Cheng, Yi-Shuai Niu, Howell Tong +1EmergenceGauge

  22. PosterHarness: Turning Scientific Poster Generation into an Auditable Instruction-Following Benchmark

    Jul 3, 2026Tianyi Yang, Dawei Fu, Youpeng Wu +5Human-Annotated BenchmarkScientific Discovery

  23. Bringing Agentic Search to Earth Observation Data Discovery

    Jul 2, 2026Minghan Yu, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi +2Agentic SearchKnowledge Graphs

  24. Coding-agents can replicate scientific machine learning papers

    Jul 2, 2026Atharva Hans, Ilias BilionisReproducibilityCoding Agents

  25. Robust for the Wrong Reasons: The Representational Geometry of LLM Robustness to Science Skepticism

    Jul 2, 2026Minjong CheonLiarScientific Discovery

  26. EO-Agents: A Three-Agent LLM Pipeline for Earth Observation Hypothesis Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Mahyar Ghazanfari, Amin Tabrizian, Armin Mehrabian +1Hypothesis GenerationEarth Observation

  27. The Agentic Garden of Forking Paths

    Jul 1, 2026Jiacheng Miao, Jonathan K Pritchard, James ZouMethodologyArtificial Intelligence Agents

  28. IsoSci: A Benchmark of Isomorphic Cross-Domain Science Problems for Evaluating Reasoning versus Knowledge Retrieval in LLMs

    Jul 1, 2026Samir Abdaljalil, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan KurbanScientific DiscoveryLarge Language Model Evaluation

  29. Multi-Turn Agentic Scientific Literature Search via Workflow Induction

    Jul 1, 2026Jisen Li, Bingxuan Li, Nanyi Jiang +10Agentic SearchHuman-Agent Collaborative Paper-To-Page

  30. Scientific Explanations in Health Sciences: Causality, Trust, and Epistemic Adequacy

    Jun 30, 2026Martina Mattioli, Marcello PelilloXaiPhilosophy

  31. The Calibration Turn in AI-Assisted Research: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework for Evidence-Licensed Claims

    Jun 30, 2026Hongmin LiAutoresearchScientific Discovery

  32. Bridging Scientific Heritage: An Arabic--Russian Parallel Corpus and LLM Benchmark for Sustainable Knowledge Transfer

    Jun 29, 2026M. K. ArabovMultilingual Language ModelsScientific Discovery

  33. Clarus: Coordinating Autonomous Research Agents toward Web-Scale Scientific Collaboration

    Jun 29, 2026Zihan Guo, Zeyi Chen, Zhiyu Chen +15AutoresearchCollaboration

  34. SciIR: A Large-scale Training Dataset and Benchmark for Scientific Image Reasoning Generation

    Jun 29, 2026Zhiyuan Ma, Zhengfeng Shi, Yuning An +6Text-To-ImageImage-Text Pairs

  35. Revealing the Technology Development of Natural Language Processing: A Scientific Entity-Centric Perspective

    Jun 29, 2026Heng Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang, Yuzhuo WangNatural Language ProcessingTechnology

  36. Unlocking the Visual Record of Materials Science: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset from Scientific Literature

    Jun 29, 2026Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim +1Materials ScienceImage-Text Pairs

  37. Em-ergence of the em-dash: a population-level rise in em-dash frequency in medRxiv preprints at the dawn of the large-language-model era

    Jun 28, 2026Przemysław CzumaPrevalenceHigh Bigram Repetition Frequency

  38. Self-Supervised Calibration of Scientific Instruments Using Physical Consistency Constraints

    Jun 28, 2026M. Rejmund, A. LemassonCapture-Aware Prototype CalibrationPhysics-Informed Machine Learning

  39. Sample Complexity of Scientific Discovery: PAC Learnability of Compositional Function Trees

    Jun 28, 2026Şuayp Talha Kocabay, Talha Rüzgar Akkuş, Kerem YalçınSymbolic RegressionSample Complexity

  40. Evidence-Informed LLM Beliefs for Continual Scientific Discovery

    Jun 28, 2026Dhruv Agarwal, Reece Adamson, Andrew McCallum +3Scientific DiscoveryLarge Language Model Reasoning

  41. Scientific discovery as meta-optimization: a combinatorial optimization case study

    Jun 25, 2026Yuan-Hang Zhang, Chesson Sipling, Massimiliano Di VentraScientific DiscoveryCombinatorial Optimization

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

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

  43. 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

  44. Accelerating Returns and the Qualitative Engine for Science

    Jun 24, 2026Guojun LiaoScientific DiscoveryTechnology

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

    Jun 24, 2026Davie ChenDiagramsScientific Discovery

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

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

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

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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. Learning the ARTS of Search for Automated Discovery

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

  51. 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

  52. BASIL: Bayesian Application for Scientific Iteration and Learning

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

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

    Jun 19, 2026Hanchun WangAutoresearchScientific Discovery

  54. Building Agent Harnesses for Scientific Curation from Multimodal Sources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  58. 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

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

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

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

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