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Notes on research automation

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  1. ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research

    Source note · Oct 1, 2026 · agents, benchmark, retrieval

    The preprint builds a benchmark from judgments by 184 lead authors of 207 recent computer-science papers, who identified prior papers that advanced or could have advanced their projects and provided rationales. The…

  2. Cogentic: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Automated Proof Discovery

    Source note · Sep 30, 2026 · reasoning, verification, multi-agent

    The preprint describes an orchestrator that assigns independent provers to competing proof directions, uses specialized adversarial verification components, and promotes confirmed intermediate results into a persistent…

  3. Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents

    Source note · Sep 22, 2026 · evaluation, agents, research automation

    The preprint presents AIDE^2, a system that proposes code changes to an AI research agent, benchmarks modified versions on AI R&D tasks, and keeps changes that perform best on hidden evaluations. An autonomous…

  4. BrainPilot: Automating Brain Discovery with Agentic Research

    Source note · Jul 16, 2026 · ai, research automation, transparency

    BrainPilot is a multi-agent system designed to accelerate brain science research using AI agents grounded in curated domain knowledge, traceable logs, and auditable records for transparency. The system is fully…

  5. BrainPilot: Automating Brain Discovery with Agentic Research

    Source note · Jul 16, 2026 · multi-agent system, research automation

    BrainPilot is a multi-agent system developed by researchers for accelerating brain science research using AI agents. It includes a coordinating principal investigator (PI) agent, specialist agents grounded in curated…

  6. BrainPilot: Automating Brain Discovery with Agentic Research

    Source note · Jul 16, 2026 · multi-agent systems, research automation

    BrainPilot is a multi-agent system designed to accelerate brain science research by integrating evidence from various scales, modalities, and disciplines. It uses a unified brain science knowledge base containing over…

  7. FARS: A Fully Automated Research System Deployed at Scale

    Source note · Jun 30, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, evaluation methods

    The paper introduces FARS, a fully automated AI research system that can generate, execute, and write complete research papers on various AI/ML topics. In its first public deployment, FARS produced 166 papers while…

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