The paper introduces SPRA (Structured Paper Representation for Agents), a comprehensive representation of AI research papers that organizes key research elements—Problems, Contributions, Components, ExperimentSetups, Measures, and Findings—into typed relations for easier querying, traversal, and reuse. SPRA includes paper-level citation relations that capture dependencies, component usage, and comparisons, and it has been instantiated across more than one million AI papers, yielding millions of research units and internal relations. Empirical evaluations show that SPRA improves source-conditioned scientific QA and directed cross-paper reasoning over passage retrieval while significantly reducing input and output token counts, demonstrating its practicality for scientific workflows.
arXiv:2609.23735v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific agents support a range of literature-based research tasks, such as retrieval, question answering, evidence-grounded generation, and claim as...
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...
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.
PathAnchor is a new scientific reasoning system that uses path-structured evidence workspaces instead of independent passages or concepts. It retrieves source-linked Material‑Sensor‑Signal‑System trajectories that preserve role, direction, and supporting evidence, and a controller uses read‑only tools to search, trace, and open exact evidence before producing a claim‑cited answer. In evaluations on 120 flexible‑sensor questions, PathAnchor achieved an 82.6% score, outperformed six other systems, and improved source recall, citation completeness, and reduced tool calls compared to unordered concept graphs.
arXiv:2607. 20926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific research involves complex information-seeking and reasoning workflows across heterogeneous sources.
arXiv:2606. 21005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery workflows often depend on structured curation from the literature.
PaperDoctor is an agent framework that provides evidence‑grounded, actionable feedback for scientific papers before submission. It evaluates writing, layout, references, code, theory, prior work, and experiments through a three‑layer hierarchical system, linking each critique to specific evidence and revision suggestions. The system selectively rebuilds and reruns experiments to uncover reproducibility gaps, and an interactive interface lets authors explore findings tied to their manuscript.
arXiv:2609.27297v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic science envisions many autonomous agents investigating concurrently while building on a shared, evolving body of scientific knowledge. This...
arXiv:2607. 28618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chemistry literature synthesis often requires assembling specific findings scattered across many publications, yet existing literature-search systems primarily return ranked document lists.
arXiv:2605.29522v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As scientific literature grows rapidly and research increasingly involves AI agents, automated survey generation has become a key capability for bo...
arXiv:2607. 28229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The web is increasingly accessed by AI agents rather than humans.
Accumulated scientific knowledge advances inquiry when prior findings help researchers choose new questions, design investigations, and interpret results. Realizing this value at scale requires access...