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As agent-based systems continue to evolve, deep research agents are capable of automatically generating research-style reports across diverse domains. While these agents promise to streamline information synthesis and knowledge exploration,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yi Yuan , Xuhong Wang , Shanzhe Lei

While there has been a surge of interest in automated scientific discovery (ASD), especially with the emergence of LLMs, it remains challenging for tools to generate hypotheses that are both testable and grounded in the scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Rosni Vasu , Peter Jansen , Pao Siangliulue , Cristina Sarasua , Abraham Bernstein , Peter Clark , Bhavana Dalvi Mishra

The first step of many research projects is to define and rank a short list of candidates for study. In the modern rapidity of scientific progress, some turn to automated hypothesis generation (HG) systems to aid this process. These systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Justin Sybrandt , Michael Shtutman , Ilya Safro

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating scientific hypothesis generation, yet existing approaches primarily yield coarse-grained hypotheses lacking critical methodological and experimental details. We introduce and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zonglin Yang , Wanhao Liu , Ben Gao , Yujie Liu , Wei Li , Tong Xie , Lidong Bing , Wanli Ouyang , Erik Cambria , Dongzhan Zhou

Scientific discovery is an inherently creative and uncertain process, requiring reasoning beyond the recall of known knowledge. While many benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate large language model (LLM) performance on deep research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 A. J. Lew , Y. Cao , M. J. Buehler

Recent advances in machine learning and AI, including Generative AI and LLMs, are disrupting technological innovation, product development, and society as a whole. AI's contribution to technology can come from multiple approaches that…

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled agentic AI systems for scientific discovery, but most approaches remain limited to textbased reasoning without automated experimental verification. We propose MIND, an LLM-driven framework for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Geonhee Ahn , Donghyun Lee , Hayoung Doo , Jonggeol Na , Hyunsoo Cho , Sookyung Kim

While AI innovation accelerates rapidly, the intellectual process behind breakthroughs -- how researchers identify gaps, synthesize prior work, and generate insights -- remains poorly understood. The lack of structured data on scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jiachen Liu , Maestro Harmon , Zechen Zhang

Generating novel and creative scientific hypotheses is a cornerstone in achieving Artificial General Intelligence. Large language and reasoning models have the potential to aid in the systematic creation, selection, and validation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Charles O'Neill , Tirthankar Ghosal , Roberta Răileanu , Mike Walmsley , Thang Bui , Kevin Schawinski , Ioana Ciucă

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in medical Question Answering (QA), yet they remain prone to hallucinations and ungrounded reasoning, limiting their reliability in high-stakes clinical scenarios. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jessica Ryan , Alexander I. Gumilang , Robert Wiliam , Derwin Suhartono

Novel research ideas play a critical role in advancing scientific inquiries. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential to generate novel research ideas by leveraging large-scale scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Keyu Zhao , Weiquan Lin , Qirui Zheng , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) aim to answer complex questions by searching the web, checking evidence, and synthesizing conclusions across heterogeneous sources. We introduce a category-theoretic framework for evaluating and improving such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shuoling Liu , Zhiquan Tan , Kun Yi , Hui Wu , Yihan Li , Jiangpeng Yan , Liyuan Chen , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Artificial intelligence systems are transforming scientific discovery by accelerating specific research tasks, from protein structure prediction to materials design, yet remain confined to narrow domains requiring substantial human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Gabrielle Wehr , Reuben Rideaux , Amaya J. Fox , David R. Lightfoot , Jason Tangen , Jason B. Mattingley , Shane E. Ehrhardt

Hypothetical induction is recognized as the main reasoning type when scientists make observations about the world and try to propose hypotheses to explain those observations. Past research on hypothetical induction is under a constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zonglin Yang , Xinya Du , Junxian Li , Jie Zheng , Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria

Information tasks such as writing surveys or analytical reports require complex search and reasoning, and have recently been grouped under the umbrella of \textit{deep research} -- a term also adopted by recent models targeting these…

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is capable of learning high-performing policies on a variety of complex high-dimensional tasks, ranging from video games to robotic manipulation. However, standard DRL methods often suffer from poor sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Caleb Chuck , Supawit Chockchowwat , Scott Niekum

Large language models often fail at logical reasoning when semantic heuristics conflict with decisive evidence - a phenomenon we term cognitive traps. To address this fundamental limitation, we introduce the Deliberative Reasoning Network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anran Xu , Jincheng Wang , Baigen Cai , Tao Wen

Large reasoning models (LRMs) combined with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have enabled deep research agents capable of multi-step reasoning with external knowledge retrieval. However, we find that existing approaches rarely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Dayoon Ko , Jihyuk Kim , Haeju Park , Sohyeon Kim , Dahyun Lee , Yongrae Jo , Gunhee Kim , Moontae Lee , Kyungjae Lee

Scientific research is being reshaped by AI systems that move beyond isolated assistance toward longer-horizon workflows spanning literature grounding, hypothesis generation, experimentation, validation, reporting, and revision. This shift…

Scientific discovery increasingly entails long-horizon exploration of complex hypothesis spaces, yet most existing approaches emphasize final performance while offering limited insight into how scientific exploration unfolds over time,…