Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation

ArXi:2502.05151v3 Announce Type: replace-cross With the advent of large multimodal language models, science is now at a threshold of an AI-based technological transformation. An emerging ecosystem of models and tools aims to researchers throughout the scientific lifecycle, including (1) searching for relevant literature, (2) generating research ideas and conducting experiments, (3) producing text-based content, (4) creating multimodal artifacts such as figures and diagrams, and (5) evaluating scientific work, as in peer review.