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most citedAstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute

Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9

Scientific Deep Research (DR) agents answer user queries by synthesizing research papers into multi-section reports. User feedback can improve their utility, but existing protocols…

cs.AI20261 cited

AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite

Jonathan Bragg, Mike D'Arcy, Nishant Balepur +36

AI agents hold the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new directions o…

cs.CL2026

Language Models Don't Know What You Want: Evaluating Personalization in Deep Research Needs Real Users

Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +7

Deep Research (DR) systems help researchers cope with ballooning publishing counts. Such tools synthesize scientific papers to answer research queries, but lack understanding of th…

cs.HC2026

LitPivot: Developing Well-Situated Research Ideas Through Dynamic Contextualization and Critique within the Literature Landscape

Hita Kambhamettu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Andrew Head +4

Developing a novel research idea is hard. It must be distinct enough from prior work to claim a contribution while also building on it. This requires iteratively reviewing literatu…

cs.CL2026

Improving Attributed Long-form Question Answering with Intent Awareness

Xinran Zhao, Aakanksha Naik, Jay DeYoung +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate comprehensive, knowledge-intensive reports. However, while these models are trained on diverse academic papers…

cs.CL2026

Deep Research, Shallow Evaluation: A Case Study in Meta-Evaluation for Long-Form QA Benchmarks

Jena D. Hwang, Varsha Kishore, Amanpreet Singh +9

Recent advances have made long-form report-generating systems widely available. This has prompted evaluation frameworks that use LLM-as-judge protocols and claim verification, alon…