arXiv AI
Aug 7
An Axiomatic Benchmark for Evaluation of Scientific Novelty Metrics
arXiv:2604. 15145v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rigorous evaluation of the novelty of a scientific paper is, even for human scientists, a challenging task.
On the Limits of LLM-as-Judge for Scientific Novelty Assessment
arXiv:2606. 12071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used to generate and judge scientific ideas.
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arXiv AI
Jul 31
Do Methods Support the Claims? Intra-Paper Verification for Peer Review
arXiv:2607. 26066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing volume of scientific submissions has motivated interest in using large language models (LLMs) to assist peer review.
arXiv AI
Jul 2
Measuring the Gap Between Human and LLM Research Ideas
arXiv:2607. 01233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used to brainstorm research ideas, but existing evaluations mostly judge individual ideas by novelty, feasibility, or expert preference.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science
arXiv:2606. 08251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bold projections that artificial intelligence will accelerate scientific discovery have raced ahead of evidence from working scientists, and the field still lacks large-scale, scientist-in-the-loop tests of these claims.
arXiv AI
1d ago
Historical Backtesting for Scientific Question Discovery: A Protocol and Astronomy Pilot
arXiv:2608. 16795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Systems that generate scientific research questions are evaluated today by expert scores, LLM-as-judge ratings, or curated case studies -- all subjective, none falsifiable.
arXiv AI
Jun 26
Thinking Like a Scientist? A Structural Study of LLM-Generated Research Methods
arXiv:2606. 26130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to guide research methodology, yet their default methodological tendencies under minimal prompting remain unclear.
arXiv AI
Jul 8
FirstResearch: Auditable Question Formation for LLM Scientific Discovery Agents
arXiv:2607. 05682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM systems for scientific discovery increasingly assist with ideation, literature synthesis, experiment planning, and report generation, but the first research question they propose can remain difficult to audit: it may sound plausible without exposing the mechanism, falsifier, or assumption that a scientist should inspect.
arXiv AI
6d ago
TRACES: A Benchmark for Epistemic Reliability in Scientific Reasoning by LLMs
arXiv:2608. 11415v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are being proposed as agents in scientific workflows, in domains where no downstream verifier exists.
arXiv AI
1d ago
Beyond Correctness: Toward Automated Novelty Verification with Lean 4
arXiv:2608. 14669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems applied to mathematics verify correctness but not novelty: an automatically generated theorem can compile in Lean without errors and yet be an already known result.
arXiv AI
Jul 3
CreativityPrism: A Cross-Domain Evaluation Framework for Large Language Model Creativity
arXiv:2510. 20091v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence.
arXiv AI
Jul 2
Heuresis: Search Strategies for Autonomous AI Research Agents Across Quality, Diversity and Novelty
arXiv:2606. 25198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous AI Research promises to accelerate the scientific progress of machine learning.
arXiv AI
Jun 12
InnoEval: On Research Idea Evaluation as a Knowledge-Grounded, Multi-Perspective Reasoning Problem
arXiv:2602. 14367v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid evolution of Large Language Models has catalyzed a surge in scientific idea production, yet this leap has not been accompanied by a matching advance in idea evaluation.