Toward Auto-Research: Mining Falsifiable Research Ideas from Paper Knowledge Graphs with Categorical Structure

The paper proposes a method for automated research‑idea generation that preserves the typed structure of scientific papers by modeling each paper as a small category with typed research entities as objects and asserted relations as morphisms. It introduces a three‑layer algorithm—categorical signature clustering, a functor‑preservation gate, and a six‑axis LLM plausibility judge—to identify cross‑domain analogies that maintain relation chains. Experiments on tens of thousands of papers show the categorical gate filters candidates at a 17:1 ratio while keeping a falsifier rate above 83%, and it logs rejected candidates with detailed rationale.

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