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most citedAI Scientists Fail Without Strong Implementation Capability

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cs.AI2026

CrashGym: Measuring the Decision Value of Experimentation for LLM Agents in Counterfactual Market Crashes

Haocheng Lu, Haoxuan Cheng, Mingyang Chen +1

Language-model agents are increasingly asked to run experiments, yet benchmarks rarely measure whether those experiments improve the decisions they are meant to inform. We introduc…

cs.CL2026

DeepInstructor: An Agentic AI Instructor for Experience-Driven Idea Evaluation

Rongcan Pei, Fang Guo, Qinglin Qi +7

As automated scientific discovery advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) can now generate research ideas at an unprecedented scale, shifting the bottleneck from idea generation to…

cs.CL2026

SafeReview: Defending LLM-based Review Systems Against Adversarial Hidden Prompts

Yuan Xin, Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu +5

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into academic peer review, their vulnerability to adversarial hidden prompts, i.e., adversarial instructions embedded in…

cs.AI2026

SafeAgent: A Runtime Protection Architecture for Agentic Systems

Hailin Liu, Eugene Ilyushin, Jie Ni +1

Large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks that propagate through multi-step workflows, tool interactions, and persistent context, making input-ou…

cs.AI2026

DeepReviewer 2.0: A Traceable Agentic System for Auditable Scientific Peer Review

Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu, Qiujie Xie +7

Automated peer review is often framed as generating fluent critique, yet reviewers and area chairs need judgments they can \emph{audit}: where a concern applies, what evidence supp…

cs.CV2026

AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration

Zhen Lin, Qiujie Xie, Minjun Zhu +10

High-quality scientific illustrations are essential for communicating complex scientific and technical concepts, yet existing automated systems remain limited in editability, styli…

cs.AI2026

AutoFigure: Generating and Refining Publication-Ready Scientific Illustrations

Minjun Zhu, Zhen Lin, Yixuan Weng +6

High-quality scientific illustrations are crucial for effectively communicating complex scientific and technical concepts, yet their manual creation remains a well-recognized bottl…

cs.LG2025

Hard Negative Sample-Augmented DPO Post-Training for Small Language Models

Haocheng Lu, Minjun Zhu, Henry Yu

Large language models (LLMs) continue to struggle with mathematical reasoning, and common post-training pipelines often reduce each generated solution to a binary outcome: correct…

cs.CL2025

Deep Research: A Systematic Survey

Zhengliang Shi, Yiqun Chen, Haitao Li +23

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from text generators into powerful problem solvers. Yet, many open tasks demand critical thinking, multi-source, and verifiable ou…

cs.CL2025

DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively

Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu, Qiujie Xie +4

While previous AI Scientist systems can generate novel findings, they often lack the focus to produce scientifically valuable contributions that address pressing human-defined chal…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Abduct, Act, Predict: Scaffolding Causal Inference for Automated Failure Attribution in Multi-Agent Systems

Alva West, Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu +3

Failure attribution in multi-agent systems -- pinpointing the exact step where a decisive error occurs -- is a critical yet unsolved challenge. Current methods treat this as a patt…

cs.CL2025

AI-Generated Text is Non-Stationary: Detection via Temporal Tomography

Alva West, Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu +4

The field of AI-generated text detection has evolved from supervised classification to zero-shot statistical analysis. However, current approaches share a fundamental limitation: t…

cs.AI2025

How Far Are AI Scientists from Changing the World?

Qiujie Xie, Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu +9

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) is propelling automated scientific discovery to the next level, with LLM-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scientist systems now taki…

cs.CL2025

T-Detect: Tail-Aware Statistical Normalization for Robust Detection of Adversarial Machine-Generated Text

Alva West, Luodan Zhang, Liuliu Zhang +3

Large language models (LLMs) have shown the capability to generate fluent and logical content, presenting significant challenges to machine-generated text detection, particularly t…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

AI Scientists Fail Without Strong Implementation Capability

Minjun Zhu, Qiujie Xie, Yixuan Weng +4

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Scientist represents a paradigm shift in scientific discovery, with large language models (LLMs) taking the lead as the primary execut…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

DeepReview: Improving LLM-based Paper Review with Human-like Deep Thinking Process

Minjun Zhu, Yixuan Weng, Linyi Yang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized in scientific research assessment, particularly in automated paper review. However, existing LLM-based review systems face si…

cs.AI2024

Constrain Alignment with Sparse Autoencoders

Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Minjun Zhu +7

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human preferences remains a key challenge. While post-training techniques like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

CycleResearcher: Improving Automated Research via Automated Review

Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu, Guangsheng Bao +4

The automation of scientific discovery has been a long-standing goal within the research community, driven by the potential to accelerate knowledge creation. While significant prog…

cs.CL2024

Locking Down the Finetuned LLMs Safety

Minjun Zhu, Linyi Yang, Yifan Wei +2

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on additional datasets is often necessary to optimize them for specific downstream tasks. However, existing safety alignment measures, whic…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Personality Alignment of Large Language Models

Minjun Zhu, Yixuan Weng, Linyi Yang +1

Aligning large language models (LLMs) typically aim to reflect general human values and behaviors, but they often fail to capture the unique characteristics and preferences of indi…