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most citedpathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy

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cs.SE2026

Benchmarking the Quantum Leap: Auditing LLM Evaluation for Quantum Code Generation

Ethan Seefried, Romit Ghosh, Sharmin Afrose +4

Large language models (LLMs) can generate quantum programs, but reliable evaluation remains difficult because benchmarks differ in task composition, scoring, and failure handling.…

astro-ph.IM2026

Rethinking Domain Specialization for Open-Ended Scientific Reasoning in Astronomy Language Models

Vanessa Lama, Sanjay Das, Emily Herron +5

Domain-specialized language models are widely used for scientific question answering, but stronger general-purpose systems raise a sharper question: when does domain-specific fine-…

cs.DC2026

Decoupled I/O-Dominant Pipelines for Large-Scale Whole-Slide Image Embedding Extraction

Mayanka Chandrashekar, Xi Zhang, Ethan Seefried +3

Whole-slide images (WSIs) are central to computational pathology but are prohibitively large, making patch-based processing the practical unit for foundation model inference. At sc…

cs.AI2026

Do LLMs Know a Good Hypothesis When They See One? Logit-Based Energy Scoring Outperforms Prompted LLM-as-Judge for Scientific Hypothesis Ranking

Swati Rajwal, Sanjay Das, Tirthankar Ghosal

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for scientific hypothesis generation. However, evaluating generated hypotheses remains a challenge for trustworthy AI-enabled sci…

cs.LG2026

Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning

Xuehang Guo, Pengyuan Li, Tom Hope +3

As chart images, tabular data, and visualization code play increasingly important roles across diverse domains, cross-representation understanding across these modalities poses fun…

cs.CL2026

Visualizing Graph-to-Answer Mechanism Recovery in Materials-Science Hypothesis Generation

Shashwat Sourav, Subhadeep Pal, Markus J. Buehler +4

AI co-scientists can generate fluent materials-science hypotheses, but fluency does not show that an answer preserves a scientifically meaningful mechanism. We present a graph-to-a…

cs.DC2026

Toward Trustworthy Autonomous Science: A Two-Year Community Roadmap

Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Milad Abolhasani, Peter Beaucage +25

One year ago, the AISLE roadmap argued that autonomous laboratories operated as isolated islands and proposed a grassroots network organized around five critical dimensions. The fi…

cs.AI2026

Graph-Native Reinforcement Learning Enables Traceable Scientific Hypothesis Generation through Conceptual Recombination

Subhadeep Pal, Shashwat Sourav, Tirthankar Ghosal +1

Accelerating materials discovery requires AI systems that can generate scientifically valid hypotheses through multi-step, domain-grounded reasoning. Standard large language models…

cs.AI2026

Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis

Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried +2

Operational safety in high-stakes domains such as industrial process control, autonomous, and safety-critical systems, demand reliable hazard identification. While large language m…

cs.CV2026

Enginuity: A Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding of Engineering Diagrams

Abhishek Kumar, Isha Motiyani, Tilak Kasturi +3

Engineering diagrams pose a distinct challenge for vision-language models: unlike natural images or general documents, they encode information through dense spatial layouts, domain…

cs.CE2026

Matter to Mechanism: A Benchmark for AI Co-Scientists in Materials and Battery Research

Shashwat Sourav, Tanjin. He, Maria K. Y. Chan +2

AI co-scientists are increasingly used for scientific discovery, but current evaluations still do not test them on a key task: moving from a concrete scientific or technological pr…

cs.AI2026

The Compressive Knowledge Graph Hypothesis: Which Graph Facts Matter for Scientific Hypothesis Generation?

Shashwat Sourav, Viktoriia Baibakova, Sanjay Das +4

Knowledge graphs (KGs) can provide structured scientific context to language models, but it remains unclear which graph facts actually shape the generated hypotheses. We study KG-g…

cs.LG2026

BLUEPRINT Rebuilding a Legacy: Multimodal Retrieval for Complex Engineering Drawings and Documents

Ethan Seefried, Ran Eldegaway, Sanjay Das +2

Decades of engineering drawings and technical records remain locked in legacy archives with inconsistent or missing metadata, making retrieval difficult and often manual. We presen…

astro-ph.IM2026

Predicting New Concept-Object Associations in Astronomy by Mining the Literature

Jinchu Li, Yuan-Sen Ting, Alberto Accomazzi +2

We construct a concept-object knowledge graph from the full astro-ph corpus through July 2025. Using an automated pipeline, we extract named astrophysical objects from OCR-processe…

cs.CV2026

Enginuity: Building an Open Multi-Domain Dataset of Complex Engineering Diagrams

Ethan Seefried, Prahitha Movva, Naga Harshita Marupaka +2

We propose Enginuity - the first open, large-scale, multi-domain engineering diagram dataset with comprehensive structural annotations designed for automated diagram parsing. By ca…