LLM Research Ideas Lean Towards Combinatorial
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-10
This piece discusses a paper on "research taste" that compares LLM-generated research ideas with those from actual human researchers. The experiment involved reverse-engineering prior literature that might have inspired ideas in real papers, then feeding those titles and abstracts to the model to generate new research ideas within the same context.
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