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  1. IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas

    Oct 6, 2026Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Jiashuo Sun +3Scientific IdeationLiterature Review

    The Unversity of Chicago · Yale University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +1

  2. Old Ideas, Novel Problems: The Instability of LLM-Based Novelty Evaluation

    Oct 1, 2026Noy Sternlicht, Simra Shahid, Peter Jansen +3Scientific Ideation

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Allen Institute for AI · Microsoft +2

  3. Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science

    Sep 28, 2026Priyanka Kargupta, Silviu Cucerzan, Shweti Mahajan +4Scientific IdeationCreativity

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Microsoft · Microsoft Research

  4. Learning to Ideate for Scientific Impact

    Sep 24, 2026Shubham Kale, Aniketh Garikaparthi, Manasi PatwardhanScientific IdeationScientific Discovery

    TCS Research, India.

  5. AgentIdeaBench: Benchmarking Scientific Ideation in the Agent Era

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

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, China · NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC), NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA

  6. Designing Proactive Thought Partners for Writing

    Sep 1, 2026Chao Zhang, Abe Davis, Chih-Wei Chen +1Ai-Assisted WritingProactive

    *Work done during an internship at Google DeepMind. · 1Cornell University · 2Google DeepMind

  7. Ideation Arena: Evaluating LLM Generated Research Ideas with Battle-style Human Expert Assessment

    Aug 30, 2026Zhiyu Chen, Keyu Zhao, Jigao Fu +8Scientific IdeationAssessment

    1Fudan University · 3Tsinghua University · 4Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence +1

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

    Aug 27, 2026Maayan Sharon, Tom HopeScientific IdeationRetrievers

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem · The Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

  9. LigBench: A Unified and Human-Aligned Benchmark for LLM-based Research Idea Generation

    Aug 13, 2026Chenrun Wang, Mingxuan Zhu, Tiancheng Huang +6Scientific IdeationCode Generation

    1X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · 2Shanghai Innovation Institution, Shanghai, China

  10. MBA: Multimodal Benchmark and Agents for Real-World Business Ideation

    Aug 12, 2026Hojun Choi, Jaeyo Shin, Suin Lee +1Multimodal AgentsMultimodal Benchmarks

    KAIST AI, Republic of Korea

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

    Aug 11, 2026Xun Li, Yiying Yang, Pengtao Li +8Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) · University of Melbourne · University of Sydney +4

  12. Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Aug 10, 2026Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman +1SirusScientific Ideation

    1Anthropic Fellows Program · 2EPFL · 3Anthropic

  13. Adversarial Fast-Moving Real-World Domains as Test Beds for Benchmarking AI Scientist Capabilities

    Aug 4, 2026William Bolton, Philip TorrScientific IdeationArtificial Intelligence Benchmarks

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

  14. Style Wins, Substance Loses: A Diagnosis of LLM-as-Judge in Idea Generation

    Aug 3, 2026Fengxian Ji, Yuke Li, Jingpu Yang +8Scientific IdeationLlm-As-A-Judge

    Wuhan University · Northeastern · Zhongguancun Academy +3

  15. Diversifying Personalized Research Ideation against AI-Induced Homogenization

    Jul 30, 2026Rui Xu, Yunke Wang, Linwei Tao +2Scientific IdeationArtificial Intelligence Scientists

    Wuhan University · The University of Sydney

  16. AI and Its Impact on Creativity and Diversity: An Empirical Study of LLM-Generated Product Ideas

    Jul 30, 2026Christian Terwiesch, Lennart Meincke, Karan Girotra +3Scientific IdeationCreativity

    Operations, Information and Decisions Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania · WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management · Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania +3

  17. AI as Friction for Reflection Support in Ideation

    Jul 29, 2026Janin Koch, Xiaohan Liao, Géry CasiezScientific IdeationGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inria, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL

  18. IDEAgent: Agentic Quality-Diversity Search for Research Idea Generation

    Jul 24, 2026Varun Gumma, Navonil Majumder, Soumitra Sinhahajari +1Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    DeCLaRe Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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

    Jul 11, 2026Hengquan GuoScientific Ideation

    ShanghaiTech University

  20. Ideas Have Genomes: Benchmarking Scientific Lineage Reasoning and Lineage-Grounded Idea Generation

    Jul 9, 2026Yifan Zhou, Qihao Yang, Yan Li +14Scientific IdeationLineages

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +4

  21. ResearchStudio-Idea: An Evidence-Grounded Research-Ideation Skill Suite from ML Conference Outcomes

    Jul 5, 2026Qihao Zhao, Yangyu Huang, Yalun Dai +8Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2Microsoft Research · 3National University of Singapore +1

  22. Refused in Chat, Written in Code: Workflow-Level Jailbreak Construction in IDE Coding Agents

    Jul 4, 2026Abhishek Kumar, Carsten MapleCoding AgentsLarge Language Model Safety

    The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom

  23. Measuring the Gap Between Human and LLM Research Ideas

    Jul 1, 2026Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Arman CohanScientific IdeationResearch Automation

    University of Chicago · Yale University

  24. Agentic-Ideation: Sample Efficient Agentic Trajectories Synthesis for Scientific Ideation Agents

    Jun 30, 2026Keyu Zhao, Lingyan Kong, Fengli Xu +1Scientific IdeationArtificial Intelligence Scientists

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.

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

    Jun 14, 2026Yifan Mo, Xiao Fu, Yue Su +4Large Language Model GenerationScientific Ideation

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

  26. On the Limits of LLM-as-Judge for Scientific Novelty Assessment

    Jun 10, 2026Soumitra Sinhahajari, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya PoriaScientific IdeationLlm-As-A-Judge

    DeCLaRe Lab, Nanyang Technological University

  27. Graph2Idea:Retrieval-Augmented Scientific Idea Generation with Graph-Structured Contexts

    Jun 8, 2026Xu Li, Hanzhe Tu, Xun HanScientific IdeationGraph-Based Retrieval Augmented Generation

    Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China · Sichuan Police College, Luzhou, Sichuan, China

  28. MIRAI: Prediction and Generation of High-Impact Academic Research

    Jun 3, 2026Alex Li, Joseph JacobsonCitationsPaperpilot

    MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA

  29. EvoGens: A Population-Based Heuristic Search Framework for Scientific Idea Generation

    May 29, 2026Xu Li, Hanzhe Tu, Xinyi Li +3Scientific IdeationEvolutionary Search

    Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China · Sichuan Police College, Luzhou, China

  30. Anchorless Diversification for Parallel LLM Ideation

    May 28, 2026Fares Nabil Ibrahim, Nafis Saami Azad, Raiyan Abdul BatenScientific Ideation

    Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing, University of South Florida, USA

  31. AI Research Agents Narrow Scientific Exploration

    May 27, 2026Yixuan Tang, Yi YangArtificial Intelligence ScientistsScientific Ideation

    1*ISOM, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

  32. Position: Ideas Should be the Center of Machine Learning Research

    May 14, 2026Jairo Diaz-RodriguezScientific IdeationMle-Bench Lite

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada.

  33. Graphs of Research: Citation Evolution Graphs as Supervision for Research Idea Generation

    May 14, 2026Songyang Gao, Yinghui Xia, Siyi Liu +1Scientific IdeationCitations

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Tsinghua University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  34. Sheaf-Theoretic Transport and Obstruction for Detecting Scientific Theory Shift in AI Agents

    May 13, 2026David N. Olivieri, Roque J. HernándezArtificial Intelligence AgentsScientific Discovery

    Universidade de Vigo, Department of Computer Science (LSI), Spain

  35. Assessing the Creativity of Large Language Models: Testing, Limits, and New Frontiers

    May 13, 2026Samuel Schapiro, Alexi Gladstone, Jonah Black +1CreativityScientific Ideation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  36. Unlocking LLM Creativity in Science through Analogical Reasoning

    May 11, 2026Andrew Shen, Shaul Druckmann, James ZouScientific IdeationAnalogy

    Stanford University

  37. LLM Jaggedness Unlocks Scientific Creativity

    May 11, 2026Shray Mathur, J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Esther H. R. Tsai +1CreativityScientific Ideation

    Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973, USA

  38. Evolving Idea Graphs with Learnable Edits-and-Commits for Multi-Agent Scientific Ideation

    May 6, 2026Jiangwen Dong, Bo Li, Wanyu LinScientific IdeationMulti-Agent Evolution

    1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  39. Structure Liberates: How Constrained Sensemaking Produces More Novel Research Output

    May 1, 2026James Mooney, Zae Myung Kim, Young-Jun Lee +1Scientific IdeationRelease

    University of Minnesota

  40. Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists

    Apr 30, 2026Yujun Wu, Dongxu Zhang, Xinchen Li +11Artificial Intelligence ScientistsMethodology

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Peking University · Xi’an Jiaotong University +6

  41. Models Recall What They Violate: Constraint Adherence in Multi-Turn LLM Ideation

    Apr 30, 2026Garvin KruthofScientific IdeationStructural Constraints

    Technical University of Munich

  42. Multimodal QUD: Inquisitive Questions from Scientific Figures

    Apr 26, 2026Yating Wu, William Rudman, Venkata S Govindarajan +2Multimodal QueryMultimodal Reasoning

    The University of Texas at Austin · Ithaca College · UC Berkeley, BespokeLabs.ai

  43. pAI/MSc: ML Theory Research with Humans on the Loop

    Apr 22, 2026Mahmoud Abdelmoneum, Pierfrancesco Beneventano, Tomaso PoggioScientific WorkflowsModel-Based Multi-Agent Systems

    1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2Perseus Labs

  44. Enhancing Research Idea Generation through Combinatorial Innovation and Multi-Agent Iterative Search Strategies

    Apr 22, 2026Shuai Chen, Chengzhi ZhangScientific IdeationResearch Automation

    Department of Information Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094 China

  45. Diversity Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Systems: Structural Coupling and Collective Failure in Open-Ended Idea Generation

    Apr 20, 2026Nuo Chen, Yicheng Tong, Yuzhe Yang +5Diversity CollapseMulti-Agent Large Language Model Systems

    National University of Singapore · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  46. The Virtual Roundtable: Multi-Agent Personas Simulating the Dynamics of Human Brainstorming

    Apr 17, 2026Tim Dorn, Saara A. Khan, Julie MumfordScientific IdeationArtificial Intelligence Personas

    Reality Labs, Meta, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

  47. Debate as Reward: A Multi-Agent Reward System for Scientific Ideation via RL Post-Training

    Apr 17, 2026Moein Salimi, Babak Hosseini Mohtasham, Amin Aghakasiri +6Scientific IdeationLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    Sharif University of Technology · University of Tehran · Sharif University of Technology[cs.AI]

  48. Visual Prompt Discovery via Semantic Exploration

    Mar 17, 2026Jaechang Kim, Yotaro Shimose, Zhao Wang +3Visual In-Context LearningVisual Reasoning

    Sony Group Corporation · Pohang University of Science and Technology · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  49. Idea2Plan: Exploring AI-Powered Research Planning

    Oct 28, 2025Jin Huang, Silviu Cucerzan, Sujay Kumar Jauhar +1Scientific IdeationLarge Language Model Planning

    University of Michigan · Microsoft Research

  50. IDRBench: Understanding the Capability of Large Language Models on Interdisciplinary Research

    Jul 21, 2025Yuanhao Shen, Daniel Xavier de Sousa, Ricardo Marçal +2Large Language Model BenchmarksInterdisciplinary Research

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen’s University, Canada · Instituto Federal de Goiás, Anápolis, Brazil · National Research Council Canada

  51. LDC: Learning to Generate Research Idea with Dynamic Control

    Dec 19, 2024Ruochen Li, Liqiang Jing, Chi Han +2Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    University of Texas at Dallas · UIUC · Stony Brook University

  52. Generating Interesting Scientific Ideas using Knowledge Graphs and LLMs: Evaluations with 100 Research Group Leaders

    May 27, 2024Xuemei Gu, Mario KrennScientific IdeationKnowledge Graphs

    Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstrasse 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany