4 papers
HybridQuestion: Human-AI Collaboration for Identifying High-Impact Research Questions
Keyu Zhao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li +1
The "AI Scientist" paradigm is transforming scientific research by automating key stages of the research process, from idea generation to scholarly writing. This shift is expected…
SciNet: Evaluating AI Agents in Relation-Aware Scientific Literature Retrieval
Chenyang Shao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li
AI agents have seen widespread adoption in information retrieval for scientific research, giving rise to tools such as Deep Research. However, existing retrieval agents mainly rely…
Emergence of polarization in networks of large language model agents
Jinghua Piao, Zhihong Lu, Chen Gao +5
Rapid advances in large language models (LLMs) have not only empowered autonomous agents to generate social networks, communicate, and form shared and diverging opinions on politic…
Artificial Intelligence Tools Expand Scientists' Impact but Contract Science's Focus (Just accepted by Nature, to be online soon)
Qianyue Hao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li +1
Development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has accelerated scientific discovery. Alongside recent AI-oriented Nobel prizes, these trends establish the role of AI tools in science.…