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cs.CL2026

Towards Execution-Grounded Automated AI Research

Chenglei Si, Zitong Yang, Yejin Choi +3

Automated AI research holds great potential to accelerate scientific discovery. However, current LLMs often generate plausible-looking but ineffective ideas. Execution grounding ma…

cs.CL2025★ 5 cited

The Ideation-Execution Gap: Execution Outcomes of LLM-Generated versus Human Research Ideas

Chenglei Si, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Diyi Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in accelerating the scientific research pipeline. A key capability for this process is the ability to generate novel research ideas,…

cs.CL2024★ 44 cited

Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers

Chenglei Si, Diyi Yang, Tatsunori Hashimoto

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have sparked optimism about their potential to accelerate scientific discovery, with a growing number of works proposing researc…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Improving Pretraining Data Using Perplexity Correlations

Tristan Thrush, Christopher Potts, Tatsunori Hashimoto

Quality pretraining data is often seen as the key to high-performance language models. However, progress in understanding pretraining data has been slow due to the costly pretraini…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Understanding Finetuning for Factual Knowledge Extraction

Gaurav Ghosal, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Aditi Raghunathan

In this work, we study the impact of QA fine-tuning data on downstream factuality. We show that fine-tuning on lesser-known facts that are poorly stored during pretraining yields s…