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:2608. 06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in scientific discovery, yet it remains unclear whether they can support complex real laboratory science.
By Taolin Han, Yuchen Zhang, Jinghang Wang, Yun Wu, Wai Yuet Chiu, Zhaohai Li, Yifei Zhang, Jinxin Wang, Yuhao Zhou, Chen Zhao, Jiajia Li, Jiaxin Li, Qile Jin, Kewei Sun, Shuang Wu, Weiqi Zhai, Renquan Lv, Junchao Li, Ruodan Chen, Qingteng Chen, Zhibo Yang, Hu Wei, Lin Qu, Shuai Bai, Bing Zhao
arXiv:2608. 12036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet the mechanisms underlying their capabilities and the risks they may pose remain poorly understood.
By Mengru Wang, Junfeng Fang, Shuofei Qiao, Zhenqian Xu, Haoming Xu, Haoxiong Wang, Shumin Deng, Linyi Yang, Zhixiang Cui, Xin Xu, Yunzhi Yao, Buqiang Xu, Fei Shen, Haozhe Luo, Yunxiang Wei, Ningyu Zhang, Julian McAuley, Tat Seng Chua, Huajun Chen
arXiv:2607. 01131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous scientific discovery systems offer the potential to accelerate research by automating the process of hypothesis generation and validation.
By Bingchen Zhao, Sara Beery, Oisin Mac Aodha
arXiv:2606. 07718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where scientists care about correctness and robustness, not implementation details.
By Kai A. Horstmann, Ethan Lin, Alice A. Robie, Jennifer J. Sun, Kristin Branson
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