Chain of Ideas: Revolutionizing Research Via Novel Idea Development with LLM Agents
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| author | Li, Long Xu, Weiwen Guo, Jiayan Zhao, Ruochen Li, Xingxuan Yuan, Yuqian Zhang, Boqiang Jiang, Yuming Xin, Yifei Dang, Ronghao Zhao, Deli Rong, Yu Feng, Tian Bing, Lidong |
| author_facet | Li, Long Xu, Weiwen Guo, Jiayan Zhao, Ruochen Li, Xingxuan Yuan, Yuqian Zhang, Boqiang Jiang, Yuming Xin, Yifei Dang, Ronghao Zhao, Deli Rong, Yu Feng, Tian Bing, Lidong |
| contents | Effective research ideation is a critical step for scientific research. However, the exponential increase in scientific literature makes it challenging for researchers to stay current with recent advances and identify meaningful research directions. Recent developments in large language models~(LLMs) suggest a promising avenue for automating the generation of novel research ideas. However, existing methods for idea generation either trivially prompt LLMs or directly expose LLMs to extensive literature without indicating useful information. Inspired by the research process of human researchers, we propose a Chain-of-Ideas~(CoI) agent, an LLM-based agent that organizes relevant literature in a chain structure to effectively mirror the progressive development in a research domain. This organization facilitates LLMs to capture the current advancements in research, thereby enhancing their ideation capabilities. Furthermore, we propose Idea Arena, an evaluation protocol that can comprehensively evaluate idea generation methods from different perspectives, aligning closely with the preferences of human researchers. Experimental results indicate that the CoI agent consistently outperforms other methods and shows comparable quality as humans in research idea generation. Moreover, our CoI agent is budget-friendly, with a minimum cost of \$0.50 to generate a candidate idea and its corresponding experimental design. |
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| spellingShingle | Chain of Ideas: Revolutionizing Research Via Novel Idea Development with LLM Agents Li, Long Xu, Weiwen Guo, Jiayan Zhao, Ruochen Li, Xingxuan Yuan, Yuqian Zhang, Boqiang Jiang, Yuming Xin, Yifei Dang, Ronghao Zhao, Deli Rong, Yu Feng, Tian Bing, Lidong Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Effective research ideation is a critical step for scientific research. However, the exponential increase in scientific literature makes it challenging for researchers to stay current with recent advances and identify meaningful research directions. Recent developments in large language models~(LLMs) suggest a promising avenue for automating the generation of novel research ideas. However, existing methods for idea generation either trivially prompt LLMs or directly expose LLMs to extensive literature without indicating useful information. Inspired by the research process of human researchers, we propose a Chain-of-Ideas~(CoI) agent, an LLM-based agent that organizes relevant literature in a chain structure to effectively mirror the progressive development in a research domain. This organization facilitates LLMs to capture the current advancements in research, thereby enhancing their ideation capabilities. Furthermore, we propose Idea Arena, an evaluation protocol that can comprehensively evaluate idea generation methods from different perspectives, aligning closely with the preferences of human researchers. Experimental results indicate that the CoI agent consistently outperforms other methods and shows comparable quality as humans in research idea generation. Moreover, our CoI agent is budget-friendly, with a minimum cost of \$0.50 to generate a candidate idea and its corresponding experimental design. |
| title | Chain of Ideas: Revolutionizing Research Via Novel Idea Development with LLM Agents |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13185 |