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:2606. 04261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Curating training data is among the most consequential yet labor-intensive parts of modern AI development: practitioners iteratively propose, implement, evaluate, and revise data policies against noisy benchmark feedback.
By Feiyang Kang, Hanze Li, Adam Nguyen, Mahavir Dabas, Jiaqi W. Ma, Frederic Sala, Dawn Song, Ruoxi Jia
arXiv:2601. 21800v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce BioAgent Bench, an evaluation suite designed for measuring the performance and robustness of AI agents in common bioinformatics tasks.
By Dionizije Fa, Marko Culjak, Bruno Pandza, Mateo Cupic
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
The paper introduces AutoMat, a benchmark designed to test large language model (LLM) coding agents on their ability to reproduce claims from computational materials science. AutoMat presents three challenges: reconstructing underspecified procedures, navigating specialized toolchains, and assessing whether the evidence supports a claim. Experiments show that current LLM agents achieve low success rates, with the best setting reaching only 53%, and failures stem mainly from incomplete procedures, methodological deviations, and execution fragility.
By Ziyang Huang, Yi Cao, Ali K. Shargh, Jing Luo, Ruidong Mei, Mohd Zaki, Zhan Liu, Wyatt Bunstine, William Jurayj, Somdatta Goswami, Tyrel McQueen, Michael Shields, Jaafar El-Awady, Paulette Clancy, Benjamin Van Durme, Nicholas Andrews, William Walden, Daniel Khashabi
arXiv:2409. 11363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents have the potential to aid users on a variety of consequential tasks, including conducting scientific research.
By Zachary S. Siegel, Sayash Kapoor, Nitya Nadgir, Benedikt Stroebl, Arvind Narayanan
arXiv:2607. 15079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the brain increasingly depends on integrating evidence across scales, modalities, and disciplines.
By Haoxuan Li, Tianci Gao, Jianhe Li, Yang Fan, Runze Shi, Weiran Wang, Tianxiang Zhao, Zezhao Wu, Xiaoyang Jiang, Qihui Zhang, Jia Li, Xiao Xiao, Kai Du, Xiaoxuan Jia, Chao Xie, Lu Mi
BaseCamp is an agentic AI framework that automates the decision layer of DNA sequencing pipelines by deploying six specialized AI agents for tasks such as sample intake, quality control, alignment, variant calling, annotation, cross‑stage monitoring, and reporting. The agents rely on established bioinformatics tools for actual sequence analysis, while using fine‑tuned, domain‑specialized large language models to select, configure, and interpret these tools’ outputs, ensuring reproducibility and local data privacy. Evaluation demonstrates that the agents’ configurations align with expert practice, provide an explicit filtering ledger for traceability, and detect anomalies that traditional monitoring may miss.
By Eranga Bandara, Xueping Liang, Asanga Gunaratna, Tharaka Hewa, Abdul Rahman, Peter Foytik, Safdar H. Bouk, Sachini Rajapakse, Isurunima Kularathna, Pramoda Karunarathna, Chalani Rajapakse, Ng Wee Keong, Kasun De Zoysa, Amin Hass, Wathsala Herath, Ross Gore, Ravi Mukkamala, Nihal Siriwardanagea, Gihan Siriwardanagea, Aruna Withanage, Nilaan Loganathan, Sachin Shetty
arXiv:2607. 29347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern neuroscience relies on integrating multi-scale, multimodal datasets to uncover the neural principles underlying intelligence.
By Jiamin Wu, Peishan Xiang, Jingyang Chen, Yuqing Zhu, Yuxi Li, Ling Luo, Qihao Zheng, Jialiang Zu, Yongchao Wu, Mindong Liu, Haitao Wu, Chaofan Hu, Yijie Sun, Yuqi Hang, Yu Zhu, Shuo Li, Yue Fan, Shiyang Feng, Wanghan Xu, Tianlei Zhang, Jie Zhang, Wenlong Zhang, Bo Zhang, Kai Wang, Lei Bai, Mianxin Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Jiulin Du, Chunfeng Song
arXiv:2605. 09366v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transforming neuroimaging data into clinically actionable biomarkers is a knowledge-intensive and labor-intensive process.
By Keqi Han, Songlin Zhao, Yao Su, Xiang Li, Yixuan Yuan, Lifang He, Carl Yang
arXiv:2606. 22678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic coding harnesses - such as Agent-Skills, Superpowers, and Agent-Rigor - are increasingly deployed to augment underlying LLMs for real-world software engineering tasks.
By Meher Bhaskar Madiraju, Meher Sai Preetam Madiraju
Autonomous scientific research agents are increasingly applied to end-to-end scientific workflows, including literature review, data analysis, experimentation, and report generation. However, open-end...