ScholarCatalyst: a new benchmark testing whether AI can pick research problems like humans
PangWeiKoh · x · 2026-10-02
AI is increasingly making progress on open problems like Navier-Stokes, but defining a new problem still relies on human research taste. ScholarCatalyst is a new benchmark built from AI researchers' firsthand accounts of what inspired their work, designed to evaluate whether AI can replicate that problem-finding judgment rather than just solve given problems.
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