ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence

arXiv:2605.26340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research agents produce competitive solutions and professional-looking manuscripts, yet their outputs contain verifiability failures undetectable by surface-level evaluation: fabricated citations, unreproducible scores, and method descriptions that diverge from the implementation. We address this through three contributions. First, Chain-of-Evidence (CoE), a verifiability framework requiring every claim to be traceable to its evidence s