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Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM) are reshaping science, with most recent advances culminating in fully-automated scientific discovery pipelines. But qualitative research has been left behind. Researchers in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Stine Beltoft , Lukas Galke

In a post-industrial society, the workplace is dominated primarily by Knowledge Work, which is achieved mostly through human cognitive processing, such as analysis, comprehension, evaluation, and decision-making. Many of these processes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Ginar Niwanputri , Elaine Toms , Andrew Simpson

The paper describes a system that uses large language model (LLM) technology to support the automatic learning of new entries in an intelligent agent's semantic lexicon. The process is bootstrapped by an existing non-toy lexicon and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sanjay Oruganti , Sergei Nirenburg , Jesse English , Marjorie McShane

Active learning (AL) accelerates scientific discovery by prioritizing the most informative experiments, but traditional machine learning (ML) models used in AL suffer from cold-start limitations and domain-specific feature engineering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hongchen Wang , Rafael Espinosa Castañeda , Jay R. Werber , Yao Fehlis , Edward Kim , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

This paper investigates the potential of AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), to support knowledge exploration and augment human creativity during ideation. We present "Latent Lab" an interactive tool for discovering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Kevin Dunnell , Trudy Painter , Andrew Stoddard , Andy Lippman

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming scientific workflows, not only through their generative capabilities but also through their emerging ability to use tools, reason about data, and coordinate complex analytical tasks. Yet in most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yifang Wang , Rui Sheng , Erzhuo Shao , Yifan Qian , Haotian Li , Nan Cao , Dashun Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have been extensively studied for their abilities to generate convincing natural language sequences, however their utility for quantitative information retrieval is less well understood. Here we explore the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific research, with explainable AI methods like concept-based models (CMs) showing promise for new discoveries. However, in molecular science, CMs are less common than black-box models like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zimin Zhang , Qianli Wu , Botao Xia , Fang Sun , Ziniu Hu , Yizhou Sun , Shichang Zhang

Scientific discovery concerns finding patterns in data and creating insightful hypotheses that explain these patterns. Traditionally, this process required human ingenuity, but with the galloping advances in artificial intelligence (AI) it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Julian Skirzynski , Yash Raj Jain , Falk Lieder

Cognitive psychology investigates perception, attention, memory, language, problem-solving, decision-making, and reasoning. Kahneman's dual-system theory elucidates the human decision-making process, distinguishing between the rapid,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yongxin Deng , Xihe Qiu , Xiaoyu Tan , Chao Qu , Jing Pan , Yuan Cheng , Yinghui Xu , Wei Chu

Scientific knowledge is growing rapidly, making it difficult to track progress and high-level conceptual links across broad disciplines. While tools like citation networks and search engines help retrieve related papers, they lack the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Muhan Gao , Jash Shah , Weiqi Wang , Kuan-Hao Huang , Daniel Khashabi

The black-box nature of Large Language Models necessitates novel evaluation frameworks that transcend surface-level performance metrics. This study investigates the internal neural representations of cognitive complexity using Bloom's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bianca Raimondi , Maurizio Gabbrielli

Concept-based explanations work by mapping complex model computations to human-understandable concepts. Evaluating such explanations is very difficult, as it includes not only the quality of the induced space of possible concepts but also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Antonin Poché , Alon Jacovi , Agustin Martin Picard , Victor Boutin , Fanny Jourdan

This paper presents a detailed case study of how artificial intelligence, especially large language models, can be integrated into historical research workflows. The workflow is divided into nine steps, covering the full research cycle from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Christian Henriot

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

Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable potential in automatic knowledge discovery. However, rigorously evaluating an AI's capacity for knowledge discovery remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chaoqun Yang , Xinyu Lin , Shulin Li , Wenjie Wang , Ruihan Guo , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Large Language Models (LLMs) create exciting possibilities for powerful language processing tools to accelerate research in materials science. While LLMs have great potential to accelerate materials understanding and discovery, they…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-26 Santiago Miret , N M Anoop Krishnan

An essential problem in artificial intelligence is whether LLMs can simulate human cognition or merely imitate surface-level behaviors, while existing datasets suffer from either synthetic reasoning traces or population-level aggregation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuxuan Gu , Lunjun Liu , Xiaocheng Feng , Kun Zhu , Weihong Zhong , Lei Huang , Bing Qin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in structured reasoning and symbolic tasks, with coding emerging as a particularly successful application. This progress has naturally motivated efforts to extend these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Andrea Asperti , Alberto Naibo , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

Discovering novel catalysts requires complex reasoning involving multiple chemical properties and resultant trade-offs, leading to a combinatorial growth in the search space. While large language models (LLM) have demonstrated novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Henry W. Sprueill , Carl Edwards , Mariefel V. Olarte , Udishnu Sanyal , Heng Ji , Sutanay Choudhury