arXiv Machine Learning

Metag: A dataset to build agentic meta-reviewing capabilities

arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Beyond Single-shot Writing: Deep Research Agents are Unreliable at Multi-turn Report Revision

The paper introduces Mr Dre, an evaluation suite that tests Deep Research Agents (DRAs) on multi-turn report revision, a process more reflective of human research practices. It defines a unified long‑form report protocol covering comprehensiveness, factuality, and presentation, and includes a human‑verified feedback simulation pipeline. Analysis of five DRAs shows that while agents can address most user feedback, they regress on 16‑28% of previously covered content and citation quality, and over successive turns they disrupt unrelated content and fail to preserve earlier edits, with prompt engineering and dedicated subagents offering limited improvement.

By Bingsen Chen, Boyan Li, Ping Nie, Yuyu Zhang, Xi Ye, Chen Zhao
arXiv AI
Jun 30

meta-pipe: An LLM-agent pipeline for end-to-end automated systematic review and meta-analysis

arXiv:2606. 28363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: To describe the architecture and design rationale of meta-pipe, an open-source large language model (LLM)-agent pipeline that integrates the complete systematic review and meta-analysis (SR/MA) workflow -- from literature search through statistical analysis, manuscript generation, and quality assurance -- with mandatory human oversight at critical decision points.

By Hsieh-Ting Lin, Jiunn-Tyng Yeh
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Can AI Reviewers See Your Efforts to Improve Your Paper? A Large-Scale Study of Paper Revision Trajectories

The study examines whether AI reviewers’ scores reflect authors’ revisions by analyzing 6,959 paper trajectories from five AI conferences. Major revisions that add empirical evidence and improve framing are identified, yet most reviewers do not change scores for these improvements and agreement on score direction is weak. Reviewer-specific associations exist, but overall predictive power is limited, and brief negative comments can negate any scoring gains from substantive revisions.

By Yaochen Wang, Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Haomin Zhuang, Xinyue Zeng, Han Chen, Kwesi Adu Cobbina, Dang Nguyen, Dianqi Li, Dawei Zhou, Tianyi Zhou
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 16

PaperDoctor: Evidence-Grounded and Actionable Feedback for Scientific Papers in Progress

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.

By Kevin Qinghong Lin, Siyuan Hu, Pan Lu, Yu Chen, Yanzhe Chen, Owen Queen, Yupeng Chen, Jialin Yu, Junchi Yu, Zifeng Ding, Yuanfeng Ji, Sheng Liu, Jindong Gu, Linjie Li, Mike Zheng Shou, Philip Torr, James Zou
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

FMMD: A multimodal multidisciplinary dataset of open peer reviews from F1000Research

FMMD is a multimodal, multidisciplinary dataset of open peer reviews from F1000Research that pairs manuscript-level visual and structural data with version‑specific reviewer reports and editorial decisions. It addresses key gaps in existing datasets by preserving precise alignment between review comments and the exact manuscript version, and by including a wide range of scientific disciplines beyond computer science. The dataset supports tasks such as visual‑semantic consistency classification, figure‑related review comment generation, and editorial decision prediction, providing a comprehensive empirical resource for multimodal automated scholarly paper review research.

By Zhenzhen Zhuang, Yuqing Fu, Jing Zhu, Zhangping Zhou, Jialiang Lin
arXiv AI
Sep 4

More Criticism Does Not Make a Better Review: EquiReview-R

The paper introduces EquiReview‑R, an AI‑assisted review system that treats omission and over‑critique as distinct risks and refines a structured concern set using evidence‑linked reasoning. It demonstrates that more criticism does not guarantee a better review, showing that many high‑recall reviews lack definitive evidence for concerns and that revision before further search is essential. On a held‑out set of papers, EquiReview‑R meets non‑inferiority for major omission, cuts major over‑critique from 15.5 % to 8.1 %, and stops on 52.4 % of papers, with gains attributed to revision rather than extra inference.

By Zexing Zhang, Jichao Li, Tianyang Lei, Yude Fu, Yang Kewei
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Author-in-the-loop Agentic Reproducibility Auditing for a Machine Learning Conference

The paper introduces an author‑in‑the‑loop collaborative audit system for reproducibility checks during peer review, where authors explicitly declare reproduction instructions via a structured checklist. An AI agent uses these declarations to investigate and assess reproducibility, while human reviewers approve requests and decide on issue resolution. The system was deployed on 36 conference papers, identifying 20 issues that were subsequently resolved, and the study examined how different checklist conditions affected the agent’s assessment.

By Yukun Dong, Linjun Zhang, Tian Zheng