4 papers
Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Lucy Lu Wang, Joseph Chee Chang +1
Visual diagrams, figures, and tables are central to scientific papers, and convey information beyond what is captured in text. While blind or low-vision (BLV) scientists have tradi…
Scientific reasoning does not reliably translate into scientific forecasting in frontier AI
Sean Wu, Pan Lu, Yupeng Chen +7
AI systems are increasingly used to support forward-looking scientific judgment, but it remains unclear whether they can form reliable expectations about future scientific advances…
LitPivot: Developing Well-Situated Research Ideas Through Dynamic Contextualization and Critique within the Literature Landscape
Hita Kambhamettu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Andrew Head +4
Developing a novel research idea is hard. It must be distinct enough from prior work to claim a contribution while also building on it. This requires iteratively reviewing literatu…
Omakase: proactive assistance with actionable suggestions for evolving scientific research projects
Pao Siangliulue, Jonathan Bragg, Doug Downey +2
As AI agents become increasingly capable of complex knowledge tasks, the lack of context limits their capability to proactively reason about a user's latent needs throughout a long…