arxivcs.AI2026-07-24
IDEAgent: Agentic Quality-Diversity Search for Research Idea Generation
Varun Gumma, Navonil Majumder, Soumitra Sinhahajari, Soujanya Poria
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly automated the process of scientific discovery over the past few years. However, existing systems share one core limitation: they generate and optimize ideas independently for either Quality or Diversity. This often leads to the gene…