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AI Can't Write Related Work Yet: New Benchmark Shows Where Research Synthesis Systems Fall Short
This paper introduces DeepScholar-bench, a new benchmark designed to test AI systems on their ability to synthesize research, similar to writing the 'Related Work' section of a scientific paper. Results show current AI systems struggle with this task, especially when it comes to finding the most important information and verifying what they say. A proposed system called DeepScholar-base outperforms others, but still has lots of room to improve.
Possible Conflicts of Interest
The authors acknowledge support from several companies involved in AI research, including Google, Meta, and VMware.
Identified Weaknesses
Knowledge synthesis and verifiability are still significant challenges for current AI research systems
Current systems have a hard time picking out the most important info and also sometimes have trouble verifying what they write using citations.
Current systems aren't always great at determining what's actually relevant and important to cite.
This can lead to less-relevant work being included and truly important research getting missed.
Rating Explanation
This paper introduces a valuable benchmark for a challenging area of AI research. While the proposed DeepScholar-base model establishes a good baseline, the results highlight how much work remains to be done, making this a significant contribution.
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Original Title:
DeepScholar-Bench: A Live Benchmark and Automated Evaluation for Generative Research Synthesis
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August 29, 2025 at 07:32 PM
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