arXiv:2605. 04135v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Readers of applied-domain LLM capability evaluations want to know what AI systems can currently do.
By David Gringras, Misha Salahshoor
arXiv:2608. 19230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language models move from drafting prose to running literature-search agents with tool calls, fabricated references are becoming easier to catch and constrain.
By Sina Alemohammad, Denghui Zhang, Bolong Tang, Anthony Qin, Gengchen Mai, Ahmed Abbasi, Richard Baraniuk, Zhangyang Wang
INDRA is a research platform that integrates multiple archival collections—such as UCSF’s Industry Documents Library, Columbia and CUNY’s ToxicDocs, and Stanford’s SRITA—into a single, LLM‑readable corpus. It employs three safeguards: a closed evidentiary sandbox, real‑time provenance tagging, and a deterministic system‑level protocol to ensure that model outputs are clearly distinguished from archival evidence and from the model’s own inferences. The platform enables large‑language‑model‑powered investigations across these archives while keeping the conditions of knowledge production transparent and auditable.
By Daniel Akselrad, Robert N. Proctor
arXiv:2607. 28631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI Scientist systems capable of autonomous research have the potential to significantly accelerate scientific discovery.
By Vaibhava Lakshmi Ravideshik, Mayank Kejriwal
arXiv:2608. 16645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can a language model recover the true research idea of a published paper when given only that paper's pre-publication bibliography?
By Shaolong Chen, Yanlin Fei, Nazhou Liu, Xinmiao Yu, Lei Li, Rahul Thapa, Madalina Ciobanu, Qingqing Mao, Ritankar Das
How does research evolve, and what substrate would let us forecast where it goes next? Scientific progress is not simply a uniform accumulation of facts: ideas extend prior methods, address known limitations, realize proposed future directions, and sometimes dispute earlier claims.
The paper "Science or Slop?: Benchmarking and Mitigating Scientific Slop in AI-Generated Papers" introduces SciSlopBench, a dataset of 390 AI‑generated papers paired with human‑written counterparts, and defines six measures across Structure, Argument, and Artifacts to detect scientific slop. The authors show that these measures can identify AI papers with 85.9% accuracy and that higher slop correlates with lower ICLR ratings and distinguishes rejected from accepted papers. They also propose SciSlopHarness, a framework that guides a fixed LLM to revise only evidence‑supported sections, reducing the AI‑human gap by 63% without human reference targets.
By Yerim Oh, Young-Jun Lee, Jaewoo Ahn, Gunhee Kim, Dongyeop Kang
arXiv:2609.13760v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Publishing a research manuscript is a routine yet demanding part of scientific life: time-consuming, stressful, and often uncertain in outcome. Recent...
By Jiawen Chen, Zichen Zhang, Bingxuan Li, Quan Sun, Yiyan Zhang, Edric Tam, Jinjie Lin, Didong Li, Yun Li, Bingxin Zhao
arXiv:2608. 05179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used across the scientific research lifecycle: ideation, literature search, experiment design and execution, analysis, manuscript drafting, and review.
By Tianyu Ding, Aditya Nannapaneni, Bingfan Liu, Ling Zhang
arXiv:2605.30947v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: LLM-based research agents have advanced rapidly in science and engineering, where research is organized around executable experiments, code, and qu...
By Yating Pan, Jiajun Zhang, Jun Wang, Qi Su
Generative-AI evaluations can become historical before publication, yet calendar age does not affect every conclusion equally. This paper has two linked purposes.
arXiv:2606. 16974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The reproducibility crisis has directed the AI research community toward improving documentation practices.
By Kevin L Coakley, Thijs Snelleman, Holger Hoos, Odd Erik Gundersen