arXiv AI

Rebuilding a Field's Open-Problem Catalog from the Literature: A Two-Layer Knowledge Graph, and Why Status Must Stay Proposed

The paper presents a system that transforms open‑problem listings in research fields into a structured, queryable knowledge graph. It combines a hand‑curated problem layer with an evidence layer derived from bibliographic data, linked through typed, provenance‑carrying connections. The authors evaluate the approach on database and AI problem catalogs, showing that the new graph can answer all previously answerable queries and additional ones about recent work, but also reveal limitations in automated status judgments, leading to a design recommendation that status changes must be proposed with evidence and reviewed by humans.

arXiv AI
Oct 19

Optimist Deep Research: An Iterative, State-Centric Agent for Autonomous Literature Research

Optimist Deep Research is an open‑source agent that conducts literature research as an iterative, state‑centric process. It breaks a research question into a tree of subquestions, uses search intents to query multiple scholarly databases, and merges results into a provenance‑preserving document registry. The agent iteratively expands the registry via citation snowballing, evaluates evidence, and refines the research plan through a critic that can add, split, rephrase, deprioritize, or close subquestions, ultimately producing a report with every citation linked to a retrieved document.

By Gihan Panapitiya
arXiv AI
4d ago

OpenFrontiers: A Collection of Open Research Problems and a Benchmark for Scientific Rediscovery

OpenFrontiers is a cross‑disciplinary resource that compiles 12,151 open research problems and a benchmark of 200 recently resolved mathematics problems, including 110 solved in 2026 and 90 still open. Each benchmark problem is formally stated in Lean 4, verified by automated probes, and reviewed independently. The evaluation protocol tests LLM agents under closed‑book, frozen‑retrieval, and live‑web conditions, revealing that closed‑book rediscovery is rare while live‑web success largely reflects retrieval of published solutions.

By Jiarui Yao, Ruida Wang, Tong Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 12

From Document Silos to Process Intelligence: A Multi-Layer Knowledge Graph for CMC Process Development

The paper introduces a modular agentic-AI platform that transforms heterogeneous CMC process-development documents into a dual-layer knowledge graph. The base layer creates a lexical Document‑Section‑Chunk hierarchy, while the intelligence layer extracts ontology‑aligned entities and links cross‑document concepts, all anchored by provenance. LLM agents navigate these layers to answer queries, and a novel three‑tier evaluation protocol demonstrates high retrieval‑augmented generation performance on proprietary data from a Sanofi program.

By Reza Amirmoshiri, Faryad Sahneh, Yasser Jangjou
arXiv AI
Sep 21

From Code Archival to Knowledge Graph: Bridging Software Heritage, COAR Notify and Wikidata

The paper introduces an end‑to‑end pipeline that harvests, validates, and models links between scholarly articles and their source code from journals such as JOSS, SoftwareX, and IPOL, as well as SIGMOD ARI reproducibility reports. It produces a curated set of 4,397 DOI‑repository pairs and defines two Wikidata‑based application profiles—one for articles and one for software—aligned with schema.org and CodeMeta. Using these profiles, the authors created 4,182 new Wikidata software items linked to their papers, while only 82 repositories were previously represented, and they demonstrate compatibility with the COAR Notify protocol for future live enrichment.

By Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Francesco Tosoni
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 23

SurveyGraph: Generating Academic Surveys via Methods-Entity Knowledge Graphs

SurveyGraph introduces a framework that uses a Methods‑Entity Knowledge Graph (MEKG) to encode relationships such as follow‑on, competition, and shared‑resource links between research methods. The graph enables core‑paper discovery, hybrid outlining, and evidence‑gated narrative synthesis, outperforming flat lexical baselines in recall and achieving strong citation support and semantic edge validation. The study demonstrates MEKG’s effectiveness through controlled benchmarks, diagnostic tests, and human adjudication, positioning it as an auditable structural layer for survey generation.

By Yifan Yuan, Yancheng Zhu, Zuoyu Zhang, Xiaogang Peng
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Ingest-Time Fact Compilation for Cost-Efficient and Reliable Question Answering over Revised Corpora

The paper introduces ingest‑time fact compilation, an architecture that preprocesses and compiles corpus data into self‑contained facts with resolved revisions, deletions, and source trust. By storing this compiled state, query‑time models can retrieve answers directly, avoiding costly reconstruction from raw passages. Experiments show that this approach reduces read cost per question by 12.89× and token usage by 21.6× while maintaining accuracy.

By Kyle Wild, Yusuke Takahashi, Asako Uraki
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

INDRA: A New AI Tool for Exploring Tobacco, Fossil Fuel, and Chemical Industry Archives

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 AI
Oct 26

Reimagining Enterprise RAG for Multi-Agent Systems: A Knowledge Layer That Organizes Before It Retrieves

The paper presents a knowledge layer that reorganizes enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for multi‑agent systems by placing an ontology at the artifact level rather than on extracted entities. Using a seven‑agent reverse‑engineering pipeline, the authors processed 241 repositories across 18 services to generate thousands of artifacts that capture scope, journeys, rules, and acceptance criteria, each tagged with provenance metadata. The resulting self‑describing catalog, sparse metadata registry, and navigation hypergraph enable queries to resolve to artifact identifiers, thereby structurally disambiguating near‑identical rules and improving retrieval accuracy. The system was built in under a week and helped root‑cause over 100 production defects and attribute 35 release regressions to specific rules and services.

By Garima Agrawal, Prasun Das, Akshay Sarvade, Priyanka L, Minisha N, Sravani Joshna, Hemath Manivannan, Lavanya Korada, Sambhrit Pattanayak, Srashti Gupta, Siddu R, Prasad Kalyanasundaram