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Agentic data science (ADS) systems are rapidly improving their capability to autonomously analyze, fit, and interpret data, potentially moving towards a future where agents conduct the vast majority of data-science work. However, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Chandan Singh , Yan Shuo Tan , Weijia Xu , Zelalem Gero , Weiwei Yang , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao

In robot scientific laboratories, visual anomaly detection is important for the timely identification and resolution of potential faults or deviations. It has become a key factor in ensuring the stability and safety of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shiwei Lin , Chenxu Wang , Xiaozhen Ding , Yi Wang , Boyuan Du , Lei Song , Chenggang Wang , Huaping Liu

The advancements of large language models (LLMs) have piqued growing interest in developing LLM-based language agents to automate scientific discovery end-to-end, which has sparked both excitement and skepticism about their true…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, their performance as embodied agents, which requires multi-round dialogue spatial reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Qi Wu

We introduce V-Agent, a novel multi-agent platform designed for advanced video search and interactive user-system conversations. By fine-tuning a vision-language model (VLM) with a small video preference dataset and enhancing it with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 SunYoung Park , Jong-Hyeon Lee , Youngjune Kim , Daegyu Sung , Younghyun Yu , Young-rok Cha , Jeongho Ju

We introduce a novel self-improving framework that enhances Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to address the limitations of current active visual tracking systems in recovering from tracking failure. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kui Wu , Shuhang Xu , Hao Chen , Churan Wang , Zhoujun Li , Yizhou Wang , Fangwei Zhong

Historically, scientific discovery has been a lengthy and costly process, demanding substantial time and resources from initial conception to final results. To accelerate scientific discovery, reduce research costs, and improve research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Samuel Schmidgall , Yusheng Su , Ze Wang , Ximeng Sun , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Jiang Liu , Michael Moor , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed as general-purpose tools for scientific data interpretation, yet their reliability on real astronomical observations across diverse modalities remains untested. We present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wenke Ren , Hengxiao Guo , Wenwen Zuo , Xiaoman Zhang

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) deliver impressive predictive accuracy yet offer little insight into 'why' a decision is reached, frequently hallucinating facts, particularly when encountering out-of-distribution data. Neurosymbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Zhenghao He , Aidong Zhang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

Recent advances in visual-language machine learning models have demonstrated exceptional ability to use natural language and understand visual scenes by training on large, unstructured datasets. However, this training paradigm cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Anthony C Davis , Burhan Sadiq , Tianmin Shu , Chien-Ming Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense capabilities in understanding textual data and are increasingly being adopted to help researchers accelerate scientific discovery through knowledge extraction (information retrieval),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Robinson Umeike , Neil Getty , Fangfang Xia , Rick Stevens

Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained significant attention as a promising approach to accelerate scientific discovery. However, their application in open-ended scientific domains such as biology remains limited, primarily due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yunhui Jang , Lu Zhu , Jake Fawkes , Alisandra Kaye Denton , Dominique Beaini , Emmanuel Noutahi

Recent advancements in open-source Visual Language Models (VLMs) such as LLaVA, Qwen-VL, and Llama have catalyzed extensive research on their integration with diverse systems. The internet-scale general knowledge encapsulated within these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Cristian Gariboldi , Hayato Tokida , Ken Kinjo , Yuki Asada , Alexander Carballo

Given the remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), an important question arises: Can LLMs conduct human-like scientific research and discover new knowledge, and act as an AI scientist? Scientific discovery is an iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Tingting Chen , Srinivas Anumasa , Beibei Lin , Vedant Shah , Anirudh Goyal , Dianbo Liu

This paper explores the application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as operator agents in the space domain, focusing on both software and hardware operational paradigms. Building on advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Alejandro Carrasco , Marco Nedungadi , Enrico M. Zucchelli , Amit Jain , Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez , Richard Linares

Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown and hazardous environments, a long-standing challenge, can be significantly improved by leveraging the advanced reasoning of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). We introduce a novel exploration pipeline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Aarush Aitha , Avideh Zakhor

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) agents are pushing AI beyond tools toward autonomous scientific discovery. We discuss two complementary agentic systems for cosmology: \texttt{CMBEvolve}, which targets tasks with explicit…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Licong Xu , Thomas Borrett

We present a Collaborative Agent-Based Framework for Multi-Image Reasoning. Our approach tackles the challenge of interleaved multimodal reasoning across diverse datasets and task formats by employing a dual-agent system: a language-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Angelos Vlachos , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Nikolaos Spanos , Ilias Mitsouras , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are evolving from passive observers into active agents, solving problems through Visual Expansion (invoking visual tools) and Knowledge Expansion (open-web search). However, existing evaluations fall…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qianshan Wei , Yishan Yang , Siyi Wang , Jinglin Chen , Binyu Wang , Jiaming Wang , Shuang Chen , Zechen Li , Yang Shi , Yuqi Tang , Weining Wang , Yi Yu , Chaoyou Fu , Qi Li , Yi-Fan Zhang