arXiv:2605. 18661v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-assisted research is crossing a threshold: fully automated systems can now generate research papers for as little as $15, while long-horizon agents can execute experiments, draft manuscripts, and simulate critique with minimal human input.
By Lingdong Kong, Xian Sun, Wei Chow, Linfeng Li, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Xuan Billy Zhang, Song Wang, Rong Li, Qing Wu, Wei Gao, Yingshuo Wang, Shaoyuan Xie, Jiachen Liu, Leigang Qu, Shijie Li, Lai Xing Ng, Benoit R. Cottereau, Ziwei Liu, Tat-Seng Chua, Wei Tsang Ooi
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
arXiv:2607. 04439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have made research ideation increasingly accessible, yet effective idea development requires more than generating candidate directions.
By Qihao Zhao, Yangyu Huang, Yalun Dai, Lingao Xiao, Jianjun Gao, Xin Zhang, Wenshan Wu, Scarlett Li, Yang He, Yan Lu, Yap Kim Hui
arXiv:2510. 24891v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential to accelerate scientific discovery as valuable tools for analyzing data, generating hypotheses, and supporting innovative approaches in various scientific fields.
By Jin Huang, Silviu Cucerzan, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Ryen W. White
Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction. Researchers test candidate directions, interpret the evidence, and carry the resulting lessons into later attempts.
arXiv:2606. 11926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction.
By Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Tong Zhao, Xiaolong Ma, Gongrui Zhang, Zhirong Wu, Bei Liu, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Lijuan Wang, Hongjin Qian, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou
arXiv:2606. 15497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The automation of science is a long-standing ambition in the field of AI.
By Yutaro Yamada, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu, Chris Lu, Shengran Hu, Jakob Foerster, David Ha, Jeff Clune
arXiv:2606. 07462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As foundation models advance and agent scaffolding becomes increasingly sophisticated, agents have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in complex, long-horizon coding tasks and even autonomous experiment execution.
By Jiayu Wang, Weijiang Lv, Bowen Fu, Jing Fu, Jiayi Song, Lingyu Zhang, Lanxuan Xue, Luodi Chen, Zepeng Xin, Kaiyu Li, Xiangyong Cao
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:2606. 31478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research agents can now draft hypotheses, write code, run experiments, and produce papers, but they remain brittle when experiments fail.
By Jie Ma, Binfei Chu, Jie Gao, Jinlu Zhang, Yiwei Ma, Yi Tan, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
arXiv:2607. 02520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated research agents increasingly generate code, retrieve literature, and draft scientific artifacts, but they often fail to verify whether generated experiments execute correctly or whether cited sources support generated claims.
By Rajesh Kumar, Waqar Ali, Junaid Ahmed, Abdullah Aman Khan, Shaoning Zeng
arXiv:2603. 17216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the advent of AI agents, automated scientific discovery is becoming an increasingly plausible goal.
By Ziyang Cai, Amir Saeidi, Harkirat Behl