2 papers
cs.AI2026
Reconstruction: A Blind Benchmark for Recovering Research Ideas from Pre-Publication Bibliographies
Shaolong Chen, Yanlin Fei, Nazhou Liu +7
Can a language model recover the true research idea of a published paper when given only that paper's pre-publication bibliography? We introduce Reconstruction, a blind idea-recove…
cs.CL2026
How Do Agents Fail on AutoResearch: End-to-End Diagnostic Evaluation on 100 Real-World Frontier Research Tasks
Yanlin Fei, Nazhou Liu, Xinmiao Yu +7
AI has long assisted scientific research, but the rapid advance of LLMs and agentic scaffolds is reshaping the landscape; a single system can now carry whole-stage research from an…