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Team

The people behind each project, in paper order.

Projects

SciMDR ACL 2026 · 6 authors

SciMDR: Advancing Scientific Multimodal Document Reasoning

  • Ziyu Chen
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Chengye Wang
  • Rilyn Han
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
SciArena NeurIPS 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks · 18 authors

SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks

  • Yilun Zhao
  • Kaiyan Zhang
  • Tiansheng Hu
  • Sihong Wu
  • Ronan Le Bras
  • Charles McGrady
  • Taira Anderson
  • Jonathan Bragg
  • Joseph Chee Chang
  • Jesse Dodge
  • Matt Latzke
  • Yixin Liu
  • Xiangru Tang
  • Zihang Wang
  • Chen Zhao
  • Hannaneh Hajishirzi
  • Doug Downey
  • Arman Cohan
SciRIFF EMNLP 2025 · 14 authors

SciRIFF: A Resource to Enhance Language Model Instruction-Following over Scientific Literature

  • David Wadden
  • Kejian Shi
  • Jacob Morrison
  • Alan Li
  • Aakanksha Naik
  • Shruti Singh
  • Nitzan Barzilay
  • Kyle Lo
  • Tom Hope
  • Luca Soldaini
  • Shannon Zejiang Shen
  • Doug Downey
  • Hannaneh Hajishirzi
  • Arman Cohan
MISS-QA Findings of ACL 2025 · 4 authors
IdeaAnchor arXiv preprint · 6 authors

IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas

  • Ziyu Chen
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Jiashuo Sun
  • Yiling Ma
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
BackTrend Findings of EMNLP 2026 · 7 authors

BackTrend: Evaluating Scientific Weak-Signal Prediction via Backward Reconstruction

  • Xiao Zhou
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Owen Jiang
  • Tiansheng Hu
  • Cai Xu
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
IdeaAMBIG arXiv preprint · 5 authors

IdeaAMBIG: Benchmarking Implementation-Critical Gaps in Research-Idea Specifications

  • Yiling Ma
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Sihong Wu
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
Human–LLM Idea Gap arXiv preprint · 3 authors
AbGen ACL 2025 · 8 authors

AbGen: Evaluating Large Language Models in Ablation Study Design and Evaluation for Scientific Research

  • Yilun Zhao
  • Weiyuan Chen
  • Zhijian Xu
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Chengye Wang
  • Yixin Liu
  • Lovekesh Vig
  • Arman Cohan
SciReas ICML 2026 · 5 authors
Physics Findings of ACL 2025 · 7 authors

Physics: Benchmarking Foundation Models on University-Level Physics Problem Solving

  • Kaiyue Feng
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Yixin Liu
  • Tianyu Yang
  • Chen Zhao
  • John Sous
  • Arman Cohan
ActReview arXiv preprint · 6 authors

ActReview: Rebuttal-Guided Training Data and Rubric Rewards for Actionable Peer Review Generation

  • Yiling Ma
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Sihong Wu
  • Ziyu Chen
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
RbtAct Findings of ACL 2026 · 7 authors

RbtAct: Rebuttal as Supervision for Actionable Review Feedback Generation

  • Sihong Wu
  • Yiling Ma
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Tiansheng Hu
  • Owen Jiang
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
LimitGen ACL 2025 · 5 authors
SciVer ACL 2025 · 5 authors

SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification

  • Chengye Wang
  • Yifei Shen
  • Zexi Kuang
  • Arman Cohan
  • Yilun Zhao
SciSketch EMNLP 2025 System Demonstrations · 6 authors

SciSketch: An Open-source Framework for Automated Schematic Diagram Generation in Scientific Papers

  • Zihang Wang
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Kaiyan Zhang
  • Chen Zhao
  • Manasi Patwardhan
  • Arman Cohan
Agent Evaluation Survey Findings of ACL 2026 · 8 authors

A Survey on Evaluation of LLM-based Agents

  • Asaf Yehudai
  • Lilach Eden
  • Alan Li
  • Guy Uziel
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Roy Bar-Haim
  • Arman Cohan
  • Michal Shmueli-Scheuer

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