From Weak Task Specifications to Scientific Extraction Agents: Optimizing Task Construction

arXiv:2609.34829 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/yyhlm/weak-spec-extraction-agents

Terminology

• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fidelity — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Graph Construction — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• AgentCAT: An LLM Agent for Extracting and Analyzing Catalytic Reaction Data from Chemical Engineering Literature
• Co-Evolving LLM Evaluators and Policies via DynamicRubric

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