Do LLMs Have Research Taste? Lossfunk Paper Tests It via Future Direction Choice
paraschopra · x · 2026-09-03
Lossfunk released a paper accepted at the COLM 2026 LM4Sci workshop, "Eliciting Research Taste in LLMs through Future Research Direction Choice." It operationalizes the fuzzy notion of research taste as a concrete task: models must choose among possible future research directions, and their picks are scored. The paper reports how leading LLMs perform on this benchmark of research judgment.
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