3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
The Production of Policy Knowledge in the United States
Taegyoon Kim, Alexander Furnas, Dashun Wang
Policymaking relies on institutions that translate expertise into politically actionable knowledge. Yet little is known about how such knowledge is created, structured, and politic…
cs.DL2026
The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding
Yifan Qian, Zhe Wen, Alexander C. Furnas +3
Federal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diffusing into scientific practice, h…
cs.CE2025
Sci2Pol: Evaluating and Fine-tuning LLMs on Scientific-to-Policy Brief Generation
Weimin Wu, Alexander C. Furnas, Eddie Yang +5
We propose Sci2Pol-Bench and Sci2Pol-Corpus, the first benchmark and training dataset for evaluating and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on policy brief generation from a…