The field of large language models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, with a focus on improving their ability to support scientific research. Recent developments are moving towards enhancing the capabilities of LLMs to comprehend and generate scientific text, as well as to facilitate more effective communication between humans and LLMs. Noteworthy papers in this area include LitChat, which presents an interactive literature agent that leverages LLMs to facilitate literature exploration, and ScienceMeter, which introduces a framework for evaluating scientific knowledge update methods in LLMs. Additionally, papers such as PolicyPulse and LGAR demonstrate the potential of LLMs to support policy researchers and systematic literature reviews. Overall, the field is advancing towards more sophisticated and specialized applications of LLMs in scientific research.
Advancements in Large Language Models for Scientific Research
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Conversational Exploration of Literature Landscape with LitChat
Aligning LLMs by Predicting Preferences from User Writing Samples
Reviewing Scientific Papers for Critical Problems With Reasoning LLMs: Baseline Approaches and Automatic Evaluation
PolicyPulse: LLM-Synthesis Tool for Policy Researchers
ScienceMeter: Tracking Scientific Knowledge Updates in Language Models
Harnessing Large Language Models for Scientific Novelty Detection
Talking Transactions: Decentralized Communication through Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDMs)
LGAR: Zero-Shot LLM-Guided Neural Ranking for Abstract Screening in Systematic Literature Reviews
Beyond the Surface: Measuring Self-Preference in LLM Judgments
TO-GATE: Clarifying Questions and Summarizing Responses with Trajectory Optimization for Eliciting Human Preference
Quantitative LLM Judges
Enhancing Automatic PT Tagging for MEDLINE Citations Using Transformer-Based Models
Exploiting LLMs for Automatic Hypothesis Assessment via a Logit-Based Calibrated Prior
Preface to the Special Issue of the TAL Journal on Scholarly Document Processing
Knockout LLM Assessment: Using Large Language Models for Evaluations through Iterative Pairwise Comparisons
PulseReddit: A Novel Reddit Dataset for Benchmarking MAS in High-Frequency Cryptocurrency Trading
Aligning Large Language Models with Implicit Preferences from User-Generated Content
A MISMATCHED Benchmark for Scientific Natural Language Inference
Lifelong Evolution: Collaborative Learning between Large and Small Language Models for Continuous Emergent Fake News Detection
Identifying Reliable Evaluation Metrics for Scientific Text Revision
Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs