arXiv AI

A Tool-Augmented, GPT-4 Chatbot for Real-Time Repository Data Analysis

arXiv AI
Sep 7

Building a research-software catalog with a coding agent: from hackathon prototype to public deployment

The paper reports on building a research-software catalog using a coding agent, starting from a three‑day hackathon prototype and moving to public deployment. It details the engineering work needed—adversarial review, data‑quality checks, browser validation, and publication safeguards—to ensure reliable operation, noting that silent failures were more problematic than crashes. The authors then examine applying these lessons to a larger, human‑curated portal (MateriApps) that combines curated metadata, external documentation, vector search, and local language‑model generation, finding that explicit validation, monitoring, and repeated review remain essential for AI‑assisted software portals.

By Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Satoshi Terasaki, Gotai Yamada
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Nomad: Autonomous Exploration and Discovery

Nomad is an autonomous system designed to explore and discover insights within large data corpora. It builds an explicit Exploration Map to systematically traverse a domain, generating and testing hypotheses with an explorer agent that leverages document, web, and database searches. After verification, it produces cited reports and meta-reports, and its evaluation framework assesses trustworthiness, quality, and diversity, showing superior performance over baselines on UN, WHO, and arXiv datasets.

By Bokang Jia, Samta Kamboj, Satheesh Katipomu, Seung Hun Han, Neha Sengupta, Andrew Jackson