ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research
What makes great scientists great? Even as AI systems start to make progress on open problems, scientists remain far ahead of them at sensing which prior idea, buried in an ever-growing archive of research, a new problem needs. To study this skill, we draw on researchers who know firsthand which earlier work advanced their completed projects, with papers serving as pointers to the ideas within. Using our automated pipeline that makes author annotation scalable, we build ScholarCatalyst by having 184 lead authors of 207 recent computer science papers label which candidates did or could have advanced their project, each with a detailed rationale. We introduce a retrieval task with author-pr...
| Authors | Sohyeon Kim, Yoonho Lee, Bo Liu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 1 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 1 October 2026 |
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