arXiv:2603. 13191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) have transformed AI agents into proficient executors of computational materials science, performing a hundred simulations does not make a researcher.
By Haonan Huang
arXiv:2607. 14178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models have fueled autonomous AI agents capable of tackling complex scientific tasks, yet existing automated research systems remain predominantly focused on empirically driven domains with quantitative benchmarks, leaving theory-driven discovery, particularly in mathematically grounded disciplines requiring rigorous proofs and synthesis of domain knowledge, largely underexplored.
By Yutong He, Daibo Li, Guohong Li, Jiahe Geng, Zhengyang Huang, Can Ren, Zekun Zhang, Yifan Liu, Shuchen Zhu, Hengrui Zhang, Boao Kong, Ming Sun, Shu Li, Chenyi Li, Jiang Hu, Kun Yuan, Zaiwen Wen, Pingwen Zhang
arXiv:2605. 26179v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when unexpected physics emerges, and inserting steps as intermediate results reshape the problem.
By Penghui Yang, Zhonghan Zhang, Yue Li, Xinrun Wang, Yanchen Deng, Yuhao Lu, Bijun Tang, Zheng Liu, Bo An
arXiv:2606. 31229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ideation plays a pivotal role in scientific discovery.
By Keyu Zhao, Lingyan Kong, Fengli Xu, Yong Li
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: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
arXiv:2512. 03476v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Progress in computational science depends on complex numerical workflows that must faithfully encode physical laws, yet translating conceptual insight into reliable code remains a major bottleneck.
By Juan Diego Toscano, Daniel T. Chen, George Em Karniadakis
arXiv:2605.26087v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Frontier LLMs now perform strongly across a wide range of physics evaluations, but it is hard to disentangle genuine reasoning from recall of...
By Matt L. Wiemann, Lindsay M. Smith, Peter Melchior, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Pavel Izmailov, Carolina Cuesta-L\'azaro
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:2608. 13505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery increasingly requires AI systems that can reason over scientific evidence of heterogeneous modalities, interact with scientific tools and environments, and sustain progress across long task horizons.
By Lei Bai, Jiaqi Cao, Chiyu Chen, Guanzhou Chen, Kai Chen, Guangran Cheng, Erfei Cui, Xuanlang Dai, Shengyuan Ding, Shangheng Du, Yanhui Duan, Yue Fan, Youqing Fang, Quan Gan, Yuanyuan Gao, Jiaye Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Qipeng Guo, Junjun He, Xin Hong, Ming Hu, Zhouqi Hua, Haian Huang, Junhao Huang, Zixian Huang, Minxi Jin, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Lam, Zehao Li, Zonglin Li, Tianhao Liang, Dahua Lin, Junyao Lin, Tianyang Lin, Zhouhan Lin, Jiangning Liu, Jin Liu, Kuikun Liu, Wenran Liu, Yifei Liu, Yuhong Liu, Yuhong Liu, Zhoumianze Liu, Ziyan Liu, Ziyu Liu, Haijun Lv, Han Lv, Chengqi Lyu, Le Ma, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Haoyang Peng, Runyu Peng, Jifei Shan, Zixin Shang, Kou Shi, Xiang Shi, Qisheng Su, Xuerui Su, Hao Sun, Xiao Sun, Yanan Sun, Yu Sun, Huanze Tang, Yinghao Tang, Wenhui Tian, Zhongbo Tian, Bingli Wang, Haomin Wang, Jiarui Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Rui Wang, Xiquan Wang, Yi Wang, Zhecan Wang, Ziyi Wang, Zun Wang, Rubin Wei, Lianyi Wu, Wen Wu, Yue Wu, Yuhan Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Zijian Wu, Shuhao Xing, Jun Xu, Xingle Xu, Xuenan Xu, Xiangchao Yan, Ziang Yan, Bowen Yang, Danni Yang, Lin Yang, Zhiqi Yang, Qian Yao, Haochen Ye, Peng Ye, Jinhui Yin, Jiashuo Yu, Dingbo Yuan, Fei Yuan, Yuhang Zang, Bo Zhang, Chao Zhang, Chen Zhang, Hongjie Zhang, Junming Zhang, Wenlong Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Zhuo Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Haiteng Zhao, Penghao Zhao, Yibo Zhao, Zhonghan Zhao, Zhihang Zhong, Bowen Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Yunhua Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Yicheng Zou
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
arXiv:2609.07611v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific ideation is the capacity to formulate novel and testable hypotheses from scientific evidence, and autonomous AI scientists depend on it. Exi...
By Yunxiang Mo, Tianshi Zheng, Yisen Gao, Rui Wang, Newt Nguyen Kim Hue Nam, Kelvin Kiu Wai Tam, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Wong, Simon See