2 papers
cs.LG2026
METIS: Mentoring Engine for Thoughtful Inquiry & Solutions
Abhinav Rajeev Kumar, Dhruv Trehan, Paras Chopra
Many students lack access to expert research mentorship. We ask whether an AI mentor can move undergraduates from an idea to a paper. We build METIS, a tool-augmented, stage-aware…
cs.LG2026
Why LLMs Aren't Scientists Yet: Lessons from Four Autonomous Research Attempts
Dhruv Trehan, Paras Chopra
We report a case study of four end-to-end attempts to autonomously generate ML research papers using a pipeline of six LLM agents mapped to stages of the scientific workflow. Of th…