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

Nishant BalepurMalachi HamadaV. KishoreAakanksha Naik
2026
ACL

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

Improving Attributed Long-form Question Answering with Intent Awareness

Xinran ZhaoAakanksha NaikJay DeYoungV. Kishore
2026
ICLR

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

Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents

K. FengKevin PuMatt LatzkeJoseph Chee Chang
2026
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

As AI agents take on increasingly long-running tasks involving sophisticated planning and execution, there is a corresponding need for novel interaction designs that enable deeper human-agent… 

SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Foundation Models in Scientific Literature Tasks

Yilun ZhaoKaiyan ZhangTiansheng HuArman Cohan
2025
NeurIPS

We present SciArena, an open and collaborative platform for evaluating foundation models on scientific literature tasks. Unlike traditional benchmarks for scientific literature understanding and… 

SciRIFF: A Resource to Enhance Language Model Instruction-Following over Scientific Literature

David WaddenKejian ShiJacob Daniel MorrisonArman Cohan
2025
EMNLP

We present SciRIFF (Scientific Resource for Instruction-Following and Finetuning), a dataset of 137K instruction-following instances for training and evaluation, covering 54 tasks. These tasks span… 

Intent-Aware Schema Generation And Refinement For Literature Review Tables

Vishakh PadmakumarJoseph Chee ChangKyle LoAakanksha Naik
2025
EMNLP

The increasing volume of academic literature makes it essential for researchers to organize, compare, and contrast collections of documents. Large language models (LLMs) can support this process by… 

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

Jonathan BraggMike D'ArcyNishant BalepurDaniel S. Weld
2025
arXiv

AI agents hold great real-world promise, with the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new… 

LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions

Zhehui LiaoMaria AntoniakInyoung CheongAmy X. Zhang
2025
COLM

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led many researchers to consider their usage for scientific work. Some have found benefits using LLMs to augment or automate aspects of their research… 

Ai2 Scholar QA: Organized Literature Synthesis with Attribution

Amanpreet SinghJoseph Chee ChangChloe AnastasiadesSergey Feldman
2025
ACL

Retrieval-augmented generation is increasingly effective in answering scientific questions from literature, but many state-of-the-art systems are expensive and closed-source. We introduce Ai2… 

IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development Through Evolving and Composing Idea Facets with Literature-Grounded Feedback

Kevin PuK. FengTovi GrossmanPao Siangliulue
2025
CHI

Research ideation involves broad exploring and deep refining ideas. Both require deep engagement with literature. Existing tools focus primarily on idea broad generation, yet offer little support… 

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