arXiv Machine Learning

Learning Scientific Exploration from Human Research Decision Trajectories

arXiv AI
Oct 2

ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research

ScholarCatalyst is a new benchmark that evaluates how well AI systems can retrieve research papers that inspire new work. The dataset was created by having 184 lead authors of 207 recent computer science papers annotate which earlier papers helped their projects, providing detailed rationales. The benchmark tests retrieval from the literature available at the start of a project, revealing that current agentic search and even advanced models like Claude Fable 5.1 perform only modestly better than simple embedding retrieval.

By Sohyeon Kim, Yoonho Lee, Bo Liu, Dayoon Ko, Rulin Shao, Seungone Kim, Graham Neubig, Pang Wei Koh, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Akari Asai, Omar Khattab, Yejin Choi, Gunhee Kim, Chelsea Finn
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

SciDataSailor: Deep Scientific Data Exploring

Scientific datasets are commonly organized as hierarchical repositories containing heterogeneous and interdependent files, making their inspection, integration, and analysis labor-intensive and reliant on domain expertise. Although large language model (LLM) agents have advanced substantially in planning, reasoning, and tool use, existing research has largely overlooked their ability to interact with real scientific data assets through executable environments.

arXiv AI
Aug 19

AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out

AutoResearch is a two‑stage autonomous research system that links Idea Generation with Idea Execution. In the generation phase it blends new research signals with existing domain knowledge, identifies transferable mechanistic insights, and produces grounded, testable research plans through multi‑model generation and cross‑review. The execution phase then decomposes these plans into experiments, iteratively implements and diagnoses them, and uses independent evidence‑based review to accept or revise conclusions, thereby turning ideas into measurable progress while minimizing hallucinations.

By Yiming Ren, Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jiahao Li, Haoyang Zhang, Junjie Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Personalized Auto-Research: Towards a True AI Co-Scientist

arXiv:2608. 14881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI co-scientists that generate hypotheses, retrieve related work, design experiments, execute code, and draft full papers are beginning to change how research is carried out.

By Bo Ni, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen, Yu Wang, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Zhengzhong Tu, Tyler Derr, Ryan A. Rossi
arXiv AI
Sep 18

ScientistTwo: Pioneering the Human Knowledge Frontier with Autonomous AI

The paper introduces ScientistTwo, a fully autonomous multi‑agent framework that takes a scientific problem, establishes baselines, generates hypotheses, and coordinates specialized agents to conduct an end‑to‑end discovery cycle without human intervention. It rigorously tests and refines its methods through automated experiments, ablation studies, and a closed‑loop peer‑review engine. Benchmarking against top conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS) shows that ScientistTwo produces expert‑level, publishable papers and codebases that outperform human state‑of‑the‑art models and receive higher review ratings under automated AI review.

By Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Yanzhou Pan, Yubo Wang, Rui Meng, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Tomas Pfister
arXiv AI
Sep 17

PrimeScientist: Strategic Allocation of Research Effort in Autonomous Research

PrimeScientist is a system that jointly selects research directions and allocates resources for autonomous research agents. It models the problem as a sequential decision task, using an executable plan tree to track competing plans and an adaptive MCTS-based policy to balance exploration and exploitation based on remaining resources and experimental feedback. Experiments on AI research, systems, code optimization, and machine learning engineering show that PrimeScientist improves average reward by 10.3% while reducing research attempts by 50.6% compared to AutoResearch under the same budget.

By Xinle Yu, Fan Bai, Kaiser Sun, Hengshuo Miao, Abhay Anand, Zhongyan Luo, Kun Zhou, Zhen Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

AutoKD: Autonomous Knowledge Discovery

arXiv:2609.06366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery in data-rich domains is currently constrained by human bandwidth: the growth in the volume and complexity of real-world data far o...

By Qinwen Ge, Bo Ni, Haowei Fu, Ngoc N. Tran, Erik Blasch, Tyler Derr
arXiv AI
Sep 16

ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

arXiv:2609.17523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce and release ScienceBuddy, an interactive scientific research workspace that brings continually improving scientific agents into researcher...

By Shuhan Xue, Jianyuan Zhong, Ziyuan Nan, Wenbin Li, Zhaochen Yu, Jinchao Ding, Qiang Gao, Pengyu Zhan, Yuntong Zhang, Tian Cheng, Zhenfei Yin, Yingcheng Wu, Ling Yang