3 papers
cs.CY2026
Autonomous Research Agents: A Survey of AI Scientists and the Verification Gap
Tianyu Ding, Aditya Nannapaneni, Bingfan Liu +1
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used across the scientific research lifecycle: ideation, literature search, experiment design and execution, analysis, manuscript…
cs.MA2026
Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents
Tianyu Ding, Aditya Nannapaneni, Bingfan Liu +1
Always-on agents are systems whose future behavior depends on durable state accumulated across earlier interactions. We treat them as persistent-state systems: the operative system…
cs.CL2026
Do LLM Attribution Metrics Transfer? Auditing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Evaluation Across Datasets and Constructs
Tianyu Ding, Aditya Nannapaneni, Juan Pablo De la Cruz Weinstein
Practice often treats automatic metrics for attribution in LLM retrieval-augmented generation as interchangeable. We audit eight automatic scorers -- lexical, embedding, and BERTSc…