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Despite interdisciplinary research leading to larger and longer-term impact, most work remains confined to single-domain academic silos. Recent AI-based approaches to scientific discovery show promise for interdisciplinary research, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Priyanka Kargupta , Shuhaib Mehri , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Jiawei Han

While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in scientific tasks such as literature analysis and experimental design (e.g., accurately extracting key findings from papers or generating coherent experimental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kai Ruan , Xuan Wang , Jixiang Hong , Peng Wang , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

Spaced repetition systems are fundamental to efficient learning and memory retention, but existing algorithms often struggle with semantic interference and personalized adaptation. We present LECTOR (\textbf{L}LM-\textbf{E}nhanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiahao Zhao

LLMs have fundamentally transformed dense retrieval, upgrading backbones from discriminative encoders to generative architectures. However, a critical disconnect remains: while LLMs possess strong reasoning capabilities, current retrievers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiajie Jin , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced Information Retrieval (IR) across various modules, such as reranking. Despite impressive performance, current zero-shot relevance ranking with LLMs heavily relies on human prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Can Jin , Hongwu Peng , Shiyu Zhao , Zhenting Wang , Wujiang Xu , Ligong Han , Jiahui Zhao , Kai Zhong , Sanguthevar Rajasekaran , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Large Language Model (LLM)-based applications are increasingly deployed across various domains, including customer service, education, and mobility. However, these systems are prone to inaccurate, fictitious, or harmful responses, and their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lev Sorokin , Ivan Vasilev , Ken E. Friedl , Andrea Stocco

Automated scientific idea generation systems have made remarkable progress, yet the automatic evaluation of idea novelty remains a critical and underexplored challenge. Manual evaluation of novelty through literature review is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Simra Shahid , Marissa Radensky , Raymond Fok , Pao Siangliulue , Daniel S. Weld , Tom Hope

Scientific innovation is pivotal for humanity, and harnessing large language models (LLMs) to generate research ideas could transform discovery. However, existing LLMs often produce simplistic and repetitive suggestions due to their limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xiang Hu , Hongyu Fu , Jinge Wang , Yifeng Wang , Zhikun Li , Renjun Xu , Yu Lu , Yaochu Jin , Lili Pan , Zhenzhong Lan

The scientific literature's exponential growth makes it increasingly challenging to navigate and synthesize knowledge across disciplines. Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools for understanding scientific text, but they fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Abhipsha Das , Nicholas Lourie , Siavash Golkar , Mariel Pettee

While many natural language inference (NLI) datasets target certain semantic phenomena, e.g., negation, tense & aspect, monotonicity, and presupposition, to the best of our knowledge, there is no NLI dataset that involves diverse types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lasha Abzianidze , Joost Zwarts , Yoad Winter

There has been a surge of interest in harnessing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to accelerate scientific discovery. While existing approaches rely on grounding the discovery process within the relevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Aniketh Garikaparthi , Manasi Patwardhan , Aditya Sanjiv Kanade , Aman Hassan , Lovekesh Vig , Arman Cohan

Scientific ideation aims to propose novel solutions within a given scientific context. Existing LLM-based agentic approaches emulate human research workflows, yet inadequately model scientific reasoning, resulting in surface-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Chenyang Gu , Jiahao Cheng , Meicong Zhang , Pujun Zheng , Jinquan Zheng , Guoxiu He

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for automating the proposal of innovative scientific ideas. This process involves two key phases: literature retrieval and idea generation. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Wenxiao Wang , Lihui Gu , Liye Zhang , Yunxiang Luo , Yi Dai , Chen Shen , Liang Xie , Binbin Lin , Xiaofei He , Jieping Ye

Materials design often relies on human-generated hypotheses, a process inherently limited by cognitive constraints such as knowledge gaps and limited ability to integrate and extract knowledge implications, particularly when…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed how people interact with artificial intelligence (AI) systems, achieving state-of-the-art results in various tasks, including scientific discovery and hypothesis generation. However, the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Sikun Guo , Amir Hassan Shariatmadari , Guangzhi Xiong , Albert Huang , Eric Xie , Stefan Bekiranov , Aidong Zhang

Topic discovery in scientific literature provides valuable insights for researchers to identify emerging trends and explore new avenues for investigation, facilitating easier scientific information retrieval. Many machine learning methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Pengjiang Li , Zaitian Wang , Xinhao Zhang , Ran Zhang , Lu Jiang , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

Prompting large language models has enabled significant recent progress in multi-step reasoning over text. However, when applied to text generation from semi-structured data (e.g., graphs or tables), these methods typically suffer from low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Swarnadeep Saha , Xinyan Velocity Yu , Mohit Bansal , Ramakanth Pasunuru , Asli Celikyilmaz

Reasoning based on Large Language Models (LLMs) has garnered increasing attention due to outstanding performance of these models in mathematical and complex logical tasks. Beginning with the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting technique,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuto Suzuki , Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential to accelerate systematic literature reviews (SLRs), yet current approaches often rely on brittle, manually crafted prompts that compromise reliability and reproducibility. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Teo Susnjak

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened new opportunities for academic literature retrieval. However, existing systems often rely on rigid pipelines and exhibit limited reasoning capabilities. We introduce SPAR, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiaofeng Shi , Yuduo Li , Qian Kou , Longbin Yu , Jinxin Xie , Hua Zhou