Sound Scientific Discovery: Initial Building Blocks

October 9, 2026 LLMs are increasingly used across the scientific workflow, from literature review to peer review, yet they routinely produce output that sounds right rather than output that is grounded in evidence. This talk presents three methods we developed to close that gap. (1) LitLLM reframes literature review as retrieval-grounded generation: an LLM-driven two-step search over an external corpus, followed by plan-then-write drafting, substantially reducing hallucinated citations. (2) AInstein asks whether LLM-generated research ideas actually hold up: we distill problem statements from