Large language model agents are accelerating scientific automation, yet verified executions rarely become persistent program-level improvements, and existing evaluations do not examine this process ac...
SAIL is an open model with 35 B total and 3 B active parameters designed for literature research, scientific coding, and multi‑step research workflows. It is developed through a science‑aware improvement loop in which agents built on frontier AI models analyze task failures, create training tasks to address capability gaps, and iterate this process across multiple development cycles. The training pipeline combines supervised fine‑tuning, specialist training, multi‑teacher on‑policy distillation, and agentic reinforcement learning, enabling SAIL to achieve competitive performance on scientific research tasks with fewer parameters than leading open‑weight models.
By SAIL Model Team, Boyuan Sun, Bryan Dai, Che Liu, Chi Liu, Derek Li, Hongming Piao, Mengzhuo Chen, Xidong Wang, Yan Shu, Yinda Chen, Ziyang Zeng
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
We introduce and release ScienceBuddy, an interactive scientific research workspace that brings continually improving scientific agents into researchers' everyday workflows. ScienceBuddy supports rese...
arXiv:2604. 17406v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The convergence of large language models and agents is catalyzing a new era of scientific discovery: Agentic Science.
By Xinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu, Cheng Wang, Fengyang Li, Wenkai Jin, Wanxu Liu, Zehao Bing, Bingyang Zheng, Jingyi Chai, Shuo Tang, Rui Ye, Yuwen Du, Xianghe Pang, Yaxin Du, Tingjia Miao, Yuzhi Zhang, Ruoxue Liao, Zhaohan Ding, Linfeng Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Weinan E, Siheng Chen
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: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:2609.19134v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific code repositories encode decades of human knowledge in executable models, methods, and tools. Yet fragmented toolchains, implicit domain con...
By Hejia Geng, Zesen Huang, Haoyang Li, Wenbin Li, Koutian Wu, Zihan Zhou, Yuanbo Pang, Weihao Liu, Zigong Xu, Zhiping Li, Zongzheng Zhang, Chuanfei Dong, Jiankai Sun, Tianzhe Zheng, Fengyu Xie, Yue Ma, Yueheng Shi, Tong Xie, Zonglin Di, Xianrong Liu, Qucheng Gao, Yimin Liu, Jiaming Pan, Sheng Huang, Xiao-Han Ma, Lanqing Yuan, Zhenlin Zhu, Ziang Liu, Ziyang Xu, Junkai Wang, Kangkai Liang, Jiayi Xian, Zehong Zhao, Liuwei Xu, Jingxu Xie, Peijin Zhang, Qiang Gao, Chengyi Xing, Zhe Zhao, Xi Wang, Yaopeng Xing, Xing Meng, Zhenfei Yin, Yingcheng Wu, Ling Yang
arXiv:2608.28590v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown promise for automating data-science workflows, yet their end-to-end performance depends critically on the...
By Fan Liu, Hao Liu
arXiv:2606. 07591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents are increasingly used for scientific work, but their end-to-end autonomous research capability remains difficult to verify.
By Wanghan Xu, Shuo Li, Tianlin Ye, Qinglong Cao, Yixin Chen, Hengjian Gao, Yiheng Wang, Qi Li, Kun Li, Sheng Xu, Shengdu Chai, Fangchen Yu, Xiangyu Zhao, Zhangrui Zhao, Weijie Ma, Zijie Guo, Haoyu Zhou, Haoxiang Yin, Lixue Cheng, Chaofan Hu, Haoxuan Li, Lu Mi, Xuxuan Xie, Yifan Zhou, Ruizhe Chen, Zhiwang Zhou, Xingjian Guo, Yuhao Zhou, Xuming He, Shengyuan Xu, Xinyu Gu, Jiamin Wu, Mianxin Liu, Chunfeng Song, Fenghua Ling, Dongzhan Zhou, Shixiang Tang, Yuqiang Li, Mao Su, Peng Ye, Siqi Sun, Bin Wang, Xue Yang, Zhenfei Yin, Tianfan Fu, Guangtao Zhai, Wanli Ouyang, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai, Wenlong Zhang
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:2608. 14354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling LLM agents to sustain productive, stable, and goal-aligned research over extended horizons is a central challenge for autonomous machine learning and scientific discovery, as progress hinges on continuously managing evolving state, exploration decisions, and computational resources.
By Mingming Zhao, Jiqian Dong, Kangping Xu, Zadid Hasan, Chengrui Fan, Shan Jiang, Shuai Mao, Ting Lingya, Linyi Zou, Tailin Zhou, Yun Hin Chan, Wenkai Zhang, Zhanhong Zhou, Guowei Huang, Hongliang Li, Wenjing Cun, Zhitang Chen, Mingxuan Yuan, Yanhui Geng