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Systematic reviews (SRs) - the librarian-assisted literature survey of scholarly articles takes time and requires significant human resources. Given the ever-increasing volume of published studies, applying existing computing and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Kaushik Roy , Vedant Khandelwal , Harshul Surana , Valerie Vera , Amit Sheth , Heather Heckman

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, with a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoshua Bengio , Salem Lahlou , Tristan Deleu , Edward J. Hu , Mo Tiwari , Emmanuel Bengio

Large Language Models (LLMs) often falter at complex planning tasks that require exploration and self-correction, as their linear reasoning process struggles to recover from early mistakes. While search algorithms like Monte Carlo Tree…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yifan Zhang , Giridhar Ganapavarapu , Srideepika Jayaraman , Bhavna Agrawal , Dhaval Patel , Achille Fokoue

This paper presents a conversational AI platform called Flowstorm. Flowstorm is an open-source SaaS project suitable for creating, running, and analyzing conversational applications. Thanks to the fast and fully automated build process, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jan Pichl , Petr Marek , Jakub Konrád , Petr Lorenc , Ondřej Kobza , Tomáš Zajíček , Jan Šedivý

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have achieved impressive image generation capabilities. However, it remains challenging to control the generation process with desired properties (e.g., aesthetic quality, user intention),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Taeyoung Yun , Dinghuai Zhang , Jinkyoo Park , Ling Pan

The scalability of pool-based active learning is limited by the computational cost of evaluating large unlabeled datasets, a challenge that is particularly acute in virtual screening for drug discovery. While active learning strategies such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Renfei Zhang , Mohit Pandey , Artem Cherkasov , Martin Ester

Design of de novo biological sequences with desired properties, like protein and DNA sequences, often involves an active loop with several rounds of molecule ideation and expensive wet-lab evaluations. These experiments can consist of…

Query rewriting is pivotal for enhancing dense retrieval, yet current methods demand large-scale supervised data or suffer from inefficient reinforcement learning (RL) exploration. In this work, we first establish that guiding Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Teng Wang , Hailei Gong , Changwang Zhang , Jun Wang

Unlike routine tasks where consistency is prized, in creativity and innovation the goal is to create a diverse set of ideas. This paper delves into the burgeoning interest in employing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Lennart Meincke , Ethan R. Mollick , Christian Terwiesch

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional reasoning capabilities, and co-evolving paradigms have shown promising results in domains such as code and math. However, in scientific reasoning tasks, these models remain fragile…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiaohan He , Shiyang Feng , Songtao Huang , Lei Bai , Bin Wang , Bo Zhang

Despite advances in scientific AI, a coherent framework for Scientific General Intelligence (SGI)-the ability to autonomously conceive, investigate, and reason across scientific domains-remains lacking. We present an operational SGI…

Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable potential in scientific hypothesis discovery. However, existing approaches face two critical limitations: they treat divergent exploratory ideation and convergent fine-grained refinement as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hongran An , Zonglin Yang

Information Extraction (IE) aims to extract structured information from heterogeneous sources. IE from natural language texts include sub-tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Relation Extraction (RE), and Event Extraction (EE).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xuming Hu , Shiao Meng , Chenwei Zhang , Xiangli Yang , Lijie Wen , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

As the volume of published scholarly literature continues to grow, finding relevant literature becomes increasingly difficult. With the rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Allard Oelen , Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh , Sören Auer

Contemporary automated scientific discovery has focused on agents for generating scientific experiments, while systems that perform higher-level scientific activities such as theory building remain underexplored. In this work, we formulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peter Jansen , Peter Clark , Doug Downey , Daniel S. Weld

Research ideation involves broad exploring and deep refining ideas. Both require deep engagement with literature. Existing tools focus primarily on idea broad generation, yet offer little support for iterative specification, refinement, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Kevin Pu , K. J. Kevin Feng , Tovi Grossman , Tom Hope , Bhavana Dalvi Mishra , Matt Latzke , Jonathan Bragg , Joseph Chee Chang , Pao Siangliulue

Retrieval augmented generation has emerged as an effective method to enhance large language model performance. This approach typically relies on an internal retrieval module that uses various indexing mechanisms to manage a static…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Guangxin He , Zonghong Dai , Jiangcheng Zhu , Binqiang Zhao , Qicheng Hu , Chenyue Li , You Peng , Chen Wang , Binhang Yuan

Competitive program generation aims to automatically produce correct and efficient solutions for programming-contest problems under strict time and memory constraints. Existing LLM-based approaches often fail to perform explicit algorithmic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Minnan Wei , Xiang Chen , Xiaoshuai Niu , Siyu Chen

Effective query expansion for web search benefits from promoting both exploration and result diversity to capture multiple interpretations and facets of a query. While recent LLM-based methods have improved retrieval performance and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yibin Lei , Tao Shen , Andrew Yates

The foundation of reproducible science lies in protocols that are precise, logically ordered, and executable. The autonomous generation of these protocols through natural language queries could greatly improve the efficiency of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoran Sun , Yankai Jiang , Zhenyu Tang , Yaning Pan , Shuang Gu , Zekai Lin , Lilong Wang , Wenjie Lou , Lei Liu , Lei Bai , Xiaosong Wang