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Reproducibility crises across sciences highlight the limitations of the paper-centric review system in assessing the rigor and reproducibility of research. AI agents that autonomously design and generate large volumes of research outputs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyan Bai , Alexander Baumgartner , Haojia Sun , Ari Holtzman , Chenhao Tan

Reconstructing numerical simulations from control systems research papers is often hindered by underspecified parameters and ambiguous implementation details. We define the task of Paper to Simulation Recoverability, the ability of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vineet Bhat , Shiqing Wei , Ali Umut Kaypak , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

Nowadays, research on GUI agents is a hot topic in the AI community. However, current research focuses on GUI task automation, limiting the scope of applications in various GUI scenarios. In this paper, we propose a formalized and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kangjia Zhao , Jiahui Song , Leigang Sha , Haozhan Shen , Zhi Chen , Tiancheng Zhao , Xiubo Liang , Jianwei Yin

Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous coding agents and have achieved remarkably strong performance on software engineering benchmarks. However, it is unclear whether such success transfers to computational…

Autoresearch offers a flexible paradigm for automating scientific tasks, in which an AI agent proposes, implements, evaluates, and refines candidate solutions against a quantitative objective. Here, we use composition-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Matteo Cobelli , Stefano Sanvito

Recent advances in agentic AI have enabled increasingly autonomous workflows, but existing systems still face substantial challenges in achieving reliable deployment in real-world scientific research. In this work, we present a safe,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Qibin Liu , Julia Gonski

Observational studies can yield clinically actionable evidence at scale, but executing them on real-world databases is open-ended and requires coherent decisions across cohort construction, analysis, and reporting. Prior evaluations of LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dubai Li , Yuxiang He , Yan Hu , Yu Tian , Jingsong Li

Coding agents now run autonomously with shell, file, and network privileges. When a user issues a benign request, the agent sometimes does more than asked: it deletes unrelated files, wipes a stale credentials backup, or rewrites…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yubin Qu , Ying Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Yi Liu

Exact scientific discovery requires more than heuristic search: candidate constructions must be turned into exact objects and checked independently. We address this gap by extending TeXRA with an independent Lean 4 verification layer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Xi He , Sirui Lu , Bei Zeng

Tool use has turned large language models (LLMs) into powerful agents that can perform complex multi-step tasks by dynamically utilising external software components. However, these tools must be implemented in advance by human developers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Georg Wölflein , Dyke Ferber , Daniel Truhn , Ognjen Arandjelović , Jakob Nikolas Kather

What makes a paper independently reproducible? Debates on reproducibility center around intuition or assumptions but lack empirical results. Our field focuses on releasing code, which is important, but is not sufficient for determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Edward Raff

The rapid advancement of visual generation models has outpaced traditional evaluation approaches, necessitating the adoption of Vision-Language Models as surrogate judges. In this work, we systematically investigate the reliability of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ruihang Li , Leigang Qu , Jingxu Zhang , Dongnan Gui , Mengde Xu , Xiaosong Zhang , Han Hu , Wenjie Wang , Jiaqi Wang

Background: Large language models are typically evaluated as models, benchmarks, or short conversational episodes. Less is known about what happens when an agent is embedded persistently in a real academic research environment with durable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Anas H. Alzahrani

Code large language models (codeLLMs) have made significant strides in code generation. Most previous code-related benchmarks, which consist of various programming exercises along with the corresponding test cases, are used as a common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Jian Yang , Jiaxi Yang , Ke Jin , Yibo Miao , Lei Zhang , Liqun Yang , Zeyu Cui , Yichang Zhang , Binyuan Hui , Junyang Lin

Recent advances in language model (LM) agents and function calling have enabled autonomous, feedback-driven systems to solve problems across various digital domains. To better understand the unique limitations of LM agents, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dhruv Gautam , Spandan Garg , Jinu Jang , Neel Sundaresan , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

Performance optimization is a critical yet challenging aspect of software development, often requiring a deep understanding of system behavior, algorithmic tradeoffs, and careful code modifications. Although recent advances in AI coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huiyun Peng , Antonio Zhong , Ricardo Andrés Calvo Méndez , Kelechi G. Kalu , James C. Davis

Large language models can generate scientific simulation code, but the generated code silently fails on most non-textbook problems. We show that classical mathematical validation -- well-posedness, convergence, and error certification --…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Chengshuai Yang

Large language models (LLMs) are catalyzing the development of autonomous AI research agents for scientific and engineering discovery. We present FM Agent, a novel and general-purpose multi-agent framework that leverages a synergistic…

As AI promises to accelerate scientific discovery, it remains unclear whether fully AI-driven research is possible and whether it can adhere to key scientific values, such as transparency, traceability and verifiability. Mimicking human…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-30 Tal Ifargan , Lukas Hafner , Maor Kern , Ori Alcalay , Roy Kishony

In this paper, we present a comparative study of five autonomous coding agents using AIDev-pop, which is a public dataset containing thousands of AI-generated pull requests (PRs) across popular open-source repositories. We evaluate agents'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shojibur Rahman , Md Fazle Rabbi , Minhaz Zibran