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AIM: Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research research paper by Google, 2026

Google · Sep 29, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 50 upvotes · unverified 6 days ago

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Frontier LLMs are increasingly used to automate scientific research through iterative search.

By Hyeong Kyu Choi, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiefeng Chen and 7 more · arXiv 2609.38445 · PDF

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Hyeong Kyu Choi, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiefeng Chen and 7 more
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2609.38445 · PDF
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