arXiv AI

AI Scientist Mission Control (AIMC): Visual Analytics for Human Oversight of Autonomous Scientific Discovery

arXiv AI
Sep 18

ScientistTwo: Pioneering the Human Knowledge Frontier with Autonomous AI

The paper introduces ScientistTwo, a fully autonomous multi‑agent framework that takes a scientific problem, establishes baselines, generates hypotheses, and coordinates specialized agents to conduct an end‑to‑end discovery cycle without human intervention. It rigorously tests and refines its methods through automated experiments, ablation studies, and a closed‑loop peer‑review engine. Benchmarking against top conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS) shows that ScientistTwo produces expert‑level, publishable papers and codebases that outperform human state‑of‑the‑art models and receive higher review ratings under automated AI review.

By Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Yanzhou Pan, Yubo Wang, Rui Meng, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Tomas Pfister
arXiv AI
Jun 4

SciDER: Scientific Data-centric End-to-end Researcher

arXiv:2603. 01421v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While large language models accelerate scientific discovery, existing agents face severe limitations in adaptability, domain generalization, and multimodal scalability, often struggling to autonomously process raw, domain-specific experimental data.

By Ke Lin, Owais Aijaz, Yilin Lu, Yiyang Luo, Xuehang Guo, Preslav Nakov
arXiv AI
Sep 16

ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

DiffUNet^2: Bidirectional Prediction, Probabilistic Generation and Collaborative Visual Discovery for Scientific Data

arXiv:2606. 03926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling temporal evolution is important to analyzing and reasoning about scientific phenomena, yet most machine learning methods provide deterministic forward predictions that overlook multiple plausible outcomes and rarely support backward reasoning, limiting their usefulness in practical scientific workflows.

By Mengdi Chu, Jiaxin Yang, Angus G. Forbes, Nathan Debardeleben, Earl Lawrence, Ayan Biswas, Han-Wei Shen
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
arXiv AI
Jun 9

ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research

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