Benchmark reveals AI systems struggle to retrieve papers that inspire new research

ScholarCatalyst collects author-identified catalyst papers and finds current retrieval systems recover less than half of them.

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Sohyeon Kim · Yoonho Lee · Bo Liu · Dayoon Ko · Rulin Shao · Seungone Kim · +8 more

Stanford University · Seoul National University · University of Washington · Carnegie Mellon University · Allen Institute for AI

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Sohyeon Kim and colleagues built ScholarCatalyst, a benchmark where 184 lead authors of 207 computer science papers labeled which prior papers could have advanced their projects.

The authors developed an automated pipeline that uses a paper's arXiv ID to produce draft annotations, which authors then verified.

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From Allen Institute for AI and 5 others

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Current retrieval systems recover at most 48% of catalyst papers that authors credit.

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