Modeling Authentic Research Trajectories: A Graph View of Research Ideation
The research idea in a published paper is rarely the project's initial idea.
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Key points
- We propose the Research Progress Graph (RPG), a representation of authentic and complete research trajectories.
- Comparing the representations of thirty-five research agents with the RPG, we find that each is an incomplete RPG; none keeps the state that changed, the evidence that changed it, and the reasoning connecting them as one evolving record.
- Modeling ideation with the RPG changes how research agents should be designed, evaluated, and trained.
- Agents predict the next research state instead of a complete idea, ideas are evaluated as trajectories instead of final texts, and authentic trajectories serve as training data.
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- [1]Modeling Authentic Research Trajectories: A Graph View of Research IdeationarXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 19, 10:00 PM
The research idea in a published paper is rarely the project's initial idea.
We propose the Research Progress Graph (RPG), a representation of authentic and complete research trajectories.
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