titleAutoResearchClaw: Self-Reinforcing Autonomous Research with Human-AI Collaboration
authorsJiaqi Liu, Shi Qiu, Mairui Li, Bingzhou Li, Haonian Ji, Siwei Han, Xinyu Ye, Peng Xia, Zihan Dong, Congyu Zhang, Letian Zhang, Guiming Chen, Haoqin Tu, Xinyu Yang, Lu Feng, Xujiang Zhao, Haifeng Chen, Jiawei Zhou, Xiao Wang, Weitong Zhang, Hongtu Zhu, Yun Li, Jieru Mei, Hongliang Fei, Jiaheng Zhang, Linjie Li, Linjun Zhang, Yuyin Zhou, Sheng Wang, Caiming Xiong, James Zou, Zeyu Zheng, Cihang Xie, Mingyu Ding, Huaxiu Yao
date2026-05-19
venuearXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed)
idarXiv:2605.20025
upvotes74 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01)
linksabs pdf hf code
abstractAutomating scientific discovery requires more than generating papers from ideas. Real research is iterative: hypotheses are challenged from multiple perspectives, experiments fail and inform the next attempt, and lessons accumulate across cycles. Existing autonomous research systems often model this process as a linear pipeline: they rely on single-agent reasoning, stop when execution fails, and do not carry experience across runs. We present AutoResearchClaw, a multi-agent autonomous research pipeline built on five mechanisms: structured multi-agent debate for hypothesis generation and result analysis, a self-healing executor with a Pivot/Refine decision loop that transforms failures into information, verifiable result reporting that prevents fabricated numbers and hallucinated citations, human-in-the-loop collaboration with seven intervention modes spanning full autonomy to step-by-step oversight, and cross-run evolution that converts past mistakes into future safeguards. On ARC-Bench, a 25-topic experiment-stage benchmark, AutoResearchClaw outperforms AI Scientist v2 by 54.7%. A human-in-the-loop ablation across seven intervention modes reveals that precise, targeted collaboration at high-leverage decision points consistently outperforms both full autonomy and exhaustive step-by-step oversight. We position AutoResearchClaw as a research amplifier that augments rather than replaces human scientific judgment. Code is available at https://github.com/aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw.

cite

@misc{liu2026autoresearchclaw,
  title={AutoResearchClaw: Self-Reinforcing Autonomous Research with Human-AI Collaboration},
  author={Jiaqi Liu and Shi Qiu and Mairui Li and Bingzhou Li and Haonian Ji and Siwei Han and Xinyu Ye and Peng Xia and Zihan Dong and Congyu Zhang and Letian Zhang and Guiming Chen and Haoqin Tu and Xinyu Yang and Lu Feng and Xujiang Zhao and Haifeng Chen and Jiawei Zhou and Xiao Wang and Weitong Zhang and Hongtu Zhu and Yun Li and Jieru Mei and Hongliang Fei and Jiaheng Zhang and Linjie Li and Linjun Zhang and Yuyin Zhou and Sheng Wang and Caiming Xiong and James Zou and Zeyu Zheng and Cihang Xie and Mingyu Ding and Huaxiu Yao},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2605.20025},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20025}
}