ForeSci: Evaluating LLM Agents for Forward-Looking AI Research Judgment

arXiv:2606.00644 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-30

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/roytian1992/ResearchForesig

Terminology

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• Trace — 38× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• RAG — 32× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 27× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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• Instruction Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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Sources

• PreScience: A Dataset and Benchmark for Scientific Forecasting
• Arbitrariness of peer review: A Bayesian analysis of the NIPS experiment
• Agentic AI for Scientific Discovery: A Survey of Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
• HindSight: Evaluating LLM-Generated Research Ideas via Future Impact
• PaperQA: Retrieval-Augmented Generative Agent for Scientific Research
• Chain of Ideas: Revolutionizing Research Via Novel Idea Development with LLM Agents
• ResearchBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Scientific Discovery via Inspiration-Based Task Decomposition
• AIRS-Bench: a Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents
• Is this Idea Novel? An Automated Benchmark for Judgment of Research Ideas
• PROPHET: An Inferable Future Forecasting Benchmark with Causal Intervened Likelihood Estimation
• AI Can Learn Scientific Taste
• SciQAG: A Framework for Auto-Generated Science Question Answering Dataset with Fine-grained Evaluation
• PaperArena: An Evaluation Benchmark for Tool-Augmented Agentic Reasoning on Scientific Literature
• Learning to Predict Future-Aligned Research Proposals with Language Models
• Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists
• The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search
• MIRAI: Evaluating LLM Agents for Event Forecasting
• FutureX: An Advanced Live Benchmark for LLM Agents in Future Prediction
• SciImpact: A Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Field Benchmark for Scientific Impact Prediction

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