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Scideator: Human-llm scientific idea generation grounded in research-paper facet recombination
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The scientific ideation process often involves blending facets of existing papers to create new ideas. We contribute Scideator, the first human-LLM system for facet-based scientific ideation. Starting from user-provided papers, Scideator extracts key facets -- purposes, mechanisms, and evaluations -- from these and related papers, allowing users to interactively recombine facets to synthesize ideas. Scideator is driven by three design choices: (1) human-in-the-loop facet recombination, in which users select facets from retrieved papers and the system generates ideas by finding analogies across them via the Faceted Idea Generator module; (2) distance-controlled retrieval via the Analogous Paper Facet Finder module, which surfaces papers ranging from the same topic to entirely different areas to provide a spectrum of directions; and (3) facet-based novelty verification via the Idea Novelty Checker module, a retrieve-then-rerank pipeline that helps users to evaluate idea originality using facets. In a user study with computer science researchers, Scideator provided significantly more creativity support than a baseline using the same backbone LLM without our facet-based modules, particularly in idea exploration and expressiveness. Ablations further show that the facets benefit the novelty checker: facet-based retrieve-then-rerank surfaces more relevant papers than standard retrieval and re-ranking, and a facet-grounded novelty classifier outperforms classifiers that reason over unstructured ideas and papers.
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