IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas
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arXiv:2610.08781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific research often begins by synthesizing ideas from a set of related papers to identify gaps and formulate new directions. However, training language models to perform this form of literature-grounded ideation remains challenging, as existing approaches based on prompting or feedback lack structured supervision for how papers should be synthesized. We introduce IdeaAnchor, a paradigm for training LLMs to perform research ideation using structured specifications as privileged signals. Each IdeaAnchor instance encodes how each input paper
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- arXiv:2610.08781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific research often begins by synthesizing ideas from a set of related papers to identify gaps and formulate new directions.
- However, training language models to perform this form of literature-grounded ideation remains challenging, as existing approaches based on prompting or feedback lack structured supervision for how papers should be synthesized.
- We introduce IdeaAnchor, a paradigm for training LLMs to perform research ideation using structured specifications as privileged signals.
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