Science Utopia? Closed-Loop LLM Simulation of Academic Research Ecosystems

arXiv:2610.01257 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Code: https://github.com/Ahren09/ScienceUtopia

Project page: https://ahren09.github.io/ScienceUtopia

Terminology

• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• AUC — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Thinking mode — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Self-distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
• The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search
• Can Large Language Models Forecast What Researchers Study Next?
• Conservative adventurers have more future academic impact
• MASCOT: Multi-Agent Socio-Collaborative Companion Systems
• CompanionCast: Toward Social Collaboration with Multi-Agent Systems in Shared Experiences
• Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication
• UniSD: Towards a Unified Self-Distillation Framework for Large Language Models
• AgentRxiv: Towards Collaborative Autonomous Research
• SciEvo: A 2 Million, 30-Year Cross-disciplinary Dataset for Temporal Scientometric Analysis
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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