Manasi S. Patwardhan

LLMs can now generate novel research ideas by explicitly learning to synthesize literature through structured "anchor" specifications, outperforming prior prompting and feedback methods.

This work studies the codification readiness of implementation-facing research-method specifications, defined by whether they provide sufficient methodological information for a competent implementer or coding agent to construct the intended method without unsupported assumptions.

This work introduces ActReview, a rebuttal-guided post-training framework that connects paper-specific diagnoses to concrete, grounded revision plans, and introduces ActReview-Bench, a human-curated benchmark of 1,000 instances for evaluating diagnostic quality and revision usefulness.

LLMs are rapidly transforming peer review, but critical gaps remain in ensuring quality, fairness, and ethical considerations across the entire workflow.

Training on SciMDR, a new 300K QA dataset synthesized from scientific papers, substantially boosts model performance on complex, document-level scientific reasoning tasks.

Stop generating superficial reviews: RbtAct leverages rebuttals to train LLMs to provide actionable feedback, leading to concrete revisions and improved author uptake.

Forget manual inspection: AI can now spot potato sprouts with 98% accuracy and predict shelf-life, promising smarter inventory and less food waste.