RIDAR is a framework designed to detect and mitigate research integrity violations (RIVs) in autonomous research agents. It introduces RIVT, a taxonomy of 14 RIV types, and offers two components: RIDAR-post-hoc, which identifies RIVs in agent trajectories with 85.2% F1 on a benchmark, and RIDAR-runtime, which dynamically corrects RIVs during execution, reducing remaining violations by 36.8%. The authors applied RIDAR to large datasets, uncovering 3,964 RIV instances in 99.7% of 300 agent trajectories across 50 tasks, highlighting the prevalence of RIVs in current agents.
arXiv:2610.19679v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in completing complex tasks through multi-step reasoning and tool i...
By Yan Xu, Dandan Song, Luan Zhang, Jun Yang, Ke Duan, Yuhang Tian, Yading Li, Xudong Li, Xing Pei, Guangyuan Feng, Chenhao Li
arXiv:2610.32441v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly capable of supporting scientific workflows, but their capabilities across diverse research activitie...
By Tianyun Zhong, Wei Wang, Jialin Li, Jianhong Tu, Liyao Li, Chuqiao Kuang, Tianshi Zheng, Songchi Zhou, Weiqi Zhai, Qile Jin, Jiajia Li, Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Shiwei Ye, Bing Zhao, Hu Wei, Lin Qu, Xianpei Han
arXiv:2409. 11363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents have the potential to aid users on a variety of consequential tasks, including conducting scientific research.
By Zachary S. Siegel, Sayash Kapoor, Nitya Nadgir, Benedikt Stroebl, Arvind Narayanan
arXiv:2606. 02060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep-research agents solve tasks through long trajectories of search, tool use, evidence inspection, and answer synthesis.
By Jiaming Wang, Ziteng Feng, Jiangtao Wu, Ruihao Li, Qianqian Xie, Yuxiang Ren, He Zhu, Xueming Han, Fanyu Meng, Junlan Feng, Jiaheng Liu
arXiv:2602. 02905v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate scientific discovery end-to-end, but rigorously evaluating their capacity for verifiable discovery remains a central challenge.
By Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Zhongyan Luo, Jinyan Su, Kaiser Sun, Xinle Yu, Jieyuan Liu, Kun Zhou, Claire Cardie, Mark Dredze, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing
arXiv:2606. 31651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent automated research systems show that language-model agents can generate hypotheses, run experiments, and write complete manuscripts, but most evidence still comes from selected examples, human-framed topics, or a few pre-defined research tasks.
By Qiong Tang, Xiangkun Hu, Xiangyang Liu, Yiran Chen, Yunfan Shao
arXiv:2606. 07054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents can pursue hidden malicious objectives through sequences of individually benign actions, making sabotage difficult to detect using standard trajectory-level monitoring.
By Vijitha Mittapalli, Shreyaa Jayant Dani, Satya Srujana Pilli, Snigdha Ansu, Mohammadreza Teymoorianfard, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed
The paper introduces Continual Search, an iterative framework that guides large language models to persistently search for diagnostic evidence in long AI agent execution logs, addressing the limitations of one-shot judgments. Evaluated on four existing RCA benchmarks and a new large-scale dataset called MegaRCA-Mix, Continual Search consistently boosts attribution performance, achieving a 40% F1 improvement for GPT‑5.5 on MegaRCA‑Mix. The results show that effective search can outweigh raw model scale, enabling lower-tier models to outperform higher-tier ones in root‑cause attribution tasks.
By Harsh Raj, David Lee, Anas Mahmoud, Renxiong Wang, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru, Chenguang Wang, Tong Zhao, Yunzhong He, Darvin Yi, Vipul Gupta
arXiv:2606. 12736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly being developed to accelerate scientific discovery, yet their practical capabilities in real research settings remain poorly understood.
By Tianyu Liu, Allen Xin Wang, Antonia Panescu, Lisa Xinyi Chen, Wenxin Long, Xinyu Wei, Yueqian Jing, Ziyao Zeng, Jihang Chen, Sihan Jiang, Ziqing Wang, Siyi Gu, Siyu Chen, Xinyang Hu, Haoran Shao, Leqi Xu, Wangjie Zheng, Zhiyuan Cao, Ada Fang, Botao Yu, Kunyang Sun, Rex Ying, Arman Cohan, Qingyu Chen, Lingzhou Xue, Kaize Ding, Yuanqi Du, Wengong Jin, Zhuoran Yang, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Hua Xu, Hongyu Zhao
Recent automated research systems show that language-model agents can generate hypotheses, run experiments, and write complete manuscripts, but most evidence still comes from selected examples, human-framed topics, or a few pre-defined research tasks. We present FARS (Fully Automated Research System), a fully automated AI-for-AI research system designed to operate across research topics at scale.
arXiv:2606. 21005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery workflows often depend on structured curation from the literature.
By Sheng Zhang, Qin Liu, Renqian Luo, Shufang Xie, Reuben Tan, Sean Hayes, Gregory Bryman, Wendong Ge, Ruilian Zhang, Oluwaseun Egbelowo, Kelly Yee, Hoifung Poon