

# USER: 
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│  > You are a senior AI researcher. There is a draft of a paper's idea in insight.txt.  │
│    cg_mcts_qwen.py is its corresponding implementation.                                │
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│    In the process of implementation, we adjusted some parts (What exactly was adjusted?)           │
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│    Please first summarize our research background and motivation,    │
│    Then, reorganize and describe our entire algorithm logic, ensuring to include sufficient details.   │
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# AGENT: 


✦ Okay, let's organize this together. As your AI research partner, I will analyze and summarize for you based on the draft of insight.txt and the final implementation of cg_mcts_qwen.py.

First, I need to read these two files to get all the information.
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✦ Okay, I have carefully read and compared your conceptual draft insight.txt and the final Python implementation cg_mcts_qwen.py. This is a very cutting-edge and interesting research that successfully applies MCTS to the open-ended task of scientific concept generation.

Below I will summarize and organize for you in three parts.

1. Research Background and Motivation Summary

Our research starts from viewing the internal knowledge structure of Large Language Models (LLMs) as a "knowledge manifold." On this manifold, high-density areas represent common and mature knowledge combinations, while true "innovation" is hidden in sparsely explored regions that the model rarely visits. Current mainstream generation methods (such as Prompt Engineering, simple vector interpolation) tend to slide toward the "gravity wells" of high-density areas, making it difficult to produce truly novel concepts.

At the same time, the human innovation process is not accomplished in one step, but rather is a repeated process of thinking, evaluating, selecting, and in-depth searching.

Based on this, we propose a brand new generation paradigm: Concept-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search (CG-MCTS). Its core motivation is to upgrade LLM text generation from a simple, linear "next-word prediction" task to a strategic search task in a vast "semantic possibility space." We utilize the MCTS algorithm to balance "exploration" of new ideas and "exploitation" of reasonable paths, thereby systematically generating scientific concepts that are both novel and feasible.

2. Main Adjustments in Implementation

From the theoretical concept in insight.txt to the code implementation in cg_mcts_qwen.py, we made several key adjustments to make the algorithm more concrete and efficient. These adjustments represent the necessary evolution of research from theory to practice:

1. Upgrading from "Token-level" MCTS to "Narrative Block-level" MCTS (Narrative MCTS):
   * Original Concept: Each node in MCTS represented a token, and tree expansion was performed token by token. This would result in extremely deep trees and low search efficiency.
   * Final Implementation: We made a crucial abstraction upgrade. Now, each node (MCTSNode) in the tree represents a meaningful "narrative block" (a block of narrative), that is, a complete, logically coherent text segment. The expand operation no longer generates a single token, but rather prompts the LLM to generate K possible, complete "next chapters" based on the full text of the current path. This greatly enhances search efficiency and granularity, making it more aligned with human "paragraph-style" thinking patterns.

2. Evolution of the Simulation Step:
   * Original Concept: The simulation step (Rollout) started from leaf nodes, generating a long text using standard top-p sampling, and then evaluating its value.
   * Final Implementation: Due to our adoption of "narrative block" MCTS, the simulation step has been simplified and integrated into the evaluation function. We no longer need the cheap, random "Rollout," but rather directly perform value evaluation (simulate_and_evaluate) on the high-quality "narrative blocks" generated by the expand operation. The evaluation has become more direct and precise.

3. Concretization and Enrichment of the Value Function:
   * Original Concept: The value function mainly contained two components: V_coherence (based on LLM log probability) and V_novelty (distance from database).
   * Final Implementation: We designed a more sophisticated, three-in-one value function:
       * Coherence (`v_coherence_norm`): Inherited from the original concept, measuring text fluency and logical consistency.
       * Novelty (`v_novelty`): Inherited from the original concept, measuring the difference from existing knowledge bases.
       * Progress (`v_progress`): This is a newly added component. It rewards nodes that significantly advance the narrative and introduce new information by calculating the distance between the current node vector and the parent node vector, avoiding getting stuck in loops.

4. Adjustment in Target Guidance Method:
   * Original Concept: Adding a dot product term with v_target to the UCT formula to guide search direction during the "selection" phase.
   * Final Implementation: This design (direction_guidance) was retained in the code, but at a higher level, we introduced "Principle-Guided Open-Ended Generation." In the expand prompt, we explicitly instruct the LLM to follow three major principles when generating subsequent content: "progressive deepening," "specific details," and "critical thinking." This provides stronger, more structured semantic constraints than simple vector guidance.

5. Automation of Theme Generation:
   * Original Concept: The algorithm started from a given broad theme.
   * Final Implementation: We added a very innovative `AutomatedThemeGenerator` module. It clusters existing knowledge documents (forming "concept continents"), then samples concepts from two "continents" at medium distance for fusion, thereby automatically and creatively generating a novel research topic as the starting point for MCTS.

3. Complete Algorithm Logic (Based on Final Implementation)

Below is the complete algorithm logic implemented in our current cg_mcts_qwen.py:

Phase Zero: Environment Setup and Theme Generation

1. Knowledge Base Construction: Load a small knowledge base (novelty_documents), vectorize it, and build a FAISS index (novelty_db) for subsequent novelty evaluation.
2. Automated Theme Generation (`AutomatedThemeGenerator`):
   * Perform K-Means clustering on the knowledge base vectors to form N "concept clusters."
   * Randomly select a cluster A, then select another cluster B that is at a medium distance from A.
   * Randomly select a representative document from both A and B as two separate "concepts."
   * Through a carefully designed prompt, instruct the LLM to fuse these two concepts into a completely new, cross-domain research topic (automated_theme).

Phase One: Target Setting

1. Initialize MCTS: Use the automatically generated theme from the previous step as the root node (self.root) and create a CG_MCTS instance.
2. Calculate Target Vector (`v_target`):
   * Instruct the LLM to decompose the theme into core "problem" and "mechanism" components.
   * Select one "problem-mechanism" concept pair and extract their vectors v_p and v_m.
   * Calculate a target vector v_target pointing toward a novel direction through orthogonal projection, and normalize it. This vector will serve as the "compass" for the entire search process.

Phase Two: Guided Narrative Search (Main MCTS Loop)

The algorithm iterates NUM_ITERATIONS times, with each iteration containing the following four steps:

1. Selection:
   * Start from the root node and recursively select child nodes downward.
   * At each level, the criterion for selecting a node is a guided UCT score that combines three aspects:
       * Exploitation: The node's average value Q/N.
       * Exploration: The node's visit count, encouraging exploration of less-visited nodes.
       * Direction Guidance: The dot product of the node vector with v_target, encouraging exploration in the target direction.
   * Continue downward until reaching a leaf node (a node with no children).

2. Expansion:
   * Obtain the complete "narrative path" text from the root to the current leaf node.
   * Use a "principle-guided" prompt to instruct the LLM, based on the current narrative, to follow the principles of "progressive deepening," "specific details," and "critical thinking" to generate K different, high-quality "next narrative blocks."
   * Create these K narrative blocks as new child nodes connected to the current leaf node.

3. Evaluation:
   * For each newly generated child node, calculate its mixed value (Value).
   * The value function contains a weighted sum of three components:
       * V_coherence: The fluency and rationality of the text (obtained through sequence probability calculated by the LLM).
       * V_novelty: The novelty of the text (calculated by the maximum distance from the novelty_db knowledge base).
       * V_progress: The degree of narrative advancement (calculated by the distance from the parent node vector).
   * This comprehensive value score is the quality assessment result for that "narrative block."

4. Backpropagation:
   * Propagate the value score calculated in the previous step upward from the child node back to the root node along the selection path.
   * The visit count N of each node along the path is increased by 1, and the cumulative value Q is increased by this score.

Phase Three: Final Concept Extraction

1. After the MCTS loop completes, we start from the root node and at each step select the child node with the most visits (highest `N` value).
2. This path represents the most "promising" and "trusted" chain of thought proven during the search process.
3. Concatenate all the "narrative blocks" from the nodes along this path to form the final scientific concept that is structurally complete, logically coherent, and innovative.

We hope this detailed summary will help you better summarize and present our research findings!

# USER: 
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│  > What data do I need to collect for the experiment? I need a low-cost option, such as selecting literature from the past few years of a few conferences or journals. Please detail the data collection process I need, the final format of the data, etc. Ensure that it includes all necessary and sufficient │
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# AGENT: 

✦ Okay, this is a very crucial step. To validate the effectiveness of our CG-MCTS algorithm, we need a high-quality, representative, and cost-controllable dataset. This dataset will primarily serve two purposes:

   1. Novelty Evaluation Database (`Novelty Database`): As a benchmark of existing knowledge to measure the "novelty" of our generated ideas.
   2. Automated Theme Generator (`AutomatedThemeGenerator`): As a "source of inspiration" allowing the model to discover and integrate concepts from it to automatically generate new research topics.

  Considering low cost and high efficiency, I suggest we focus on collecting paper abstracts from recent years of top AI/ML/NLP conferences. arXiv is the best, most open, and free data source for completing this task.

  Here is the detailed data collection plan:

  Step 1: Determine data scope and sources

   1. Target Conferences/Journals: We select top conferences in the AI field because they represent the latest and most important research advancements in this domain.
       * Machine Learning: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
       * Natural Language Processing: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL
       * Computer Vision (optional): CVPR, ICCV

   2. Time Range: Selecting papers from the last 3-4 years will be sufficient. For example, 2021 to 2024. This range ensures the data is both up-to-date and sufficient.

   3. Data Source: arXiv.org.
       * Reason: Almost all papers from the above conferences are published as preprints on arXiv. It provides a free, legal, and structured API, making it the preferred choice for academic data collection, perfectly aligning with our low-cost requirements.

  Step 2: Data Collection Process (using Python)

  We will use the arxiv Python library to automate the collection process, which encapsulates arXiv's official API and is very convenient.

   1. Install dependencies:
   1     pip install arxiv pandas

   2. Write collection script: Below is a detailed Python script for scraping paper information for specific conferences and years.

```
    1     import arxiv
    2     import pandas as pd
    3     import time
    4     import re
    5 
    6     # --- Config ---
    7     # Define target meeting and year
    8     TARGET_CONFERENCES = ["NeurIPS", "ICML", "ICLR", "ACL", "EMNLP"]
    9     YEARS = [2021, 2022, 2023, 2024]
   10     MAX_RESULTS_PER_QUERY = 2000 # Each query can retrieve at most 2000 articles, which can be adjusted as needed.
   11 
   12     # --- Main ---
   13     def collect_papers():
   14         """main collection function"""
   15         all_papers = []
   16         client = arxiv.Client()
   17 
   18         for conf in TARGET_CONFERENCES:
   19             for year in YEARS:
   20                 # Construct arXiv search query
   21                 # We search for "conf year" in the abstracts to filter, which is a common technique
   22                 query = f'abs:"{conf} {year}"'
   23                 print(f"Searching: {query}...")
   24 
   25                 try:
   26                     search = arxiv.Search(
   27                         query=query,
   28                         max_results=MAX_RESULTS_PER_QUERY,
   29                         sort_by=arxiv.SortCriterion.SubmittedDate
   30                     )
   31 
   32                     results = client.results(search)
   33 
   34                     count = 0
   35                     for result in results:
   36                         paper_data = {
   37                             "id": result.entry_id,
   38                             "title": result.title,
   39                             "abstract": result.summary,
   40                             "authors": [author.name for author in result.authors],
   41                             "published_date": result.published.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
   42                             "year": result.published.year,
43                             "source_conference_query": conf # record which conference keyword we found it through
   44                         }
   45                         all_papers.append(paper_data)
   46                         count += 1
   47 
print(f"  > Successfully collected {count} papers.")
   49 
   50                 except Exception as e:
51                     print(f"  ! Query failed: {e}")
   52 
53                 # API etiquette: Add a brief pause between queries to avoid getting your IP address blocked
   54                 time.sleep(5)
   55 
   56         return all_papers
   57 
58     # --- data cleaning ---
   59     def clean_text(text):
   60         """Clean abstract text, remove LaTeX, line breaks, etc."""
   61         # Replace line breaks and extra spaces
   62         text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text).strip()
   63         # A simple rule to remove common LaTeX commands, which can be extended as needed
   64         text = re.sub(r'\\[a-zA-Z]+', '', text) # Remove \command
   65         text = re.sub(r'\{|\}', '', text) # Remove curly braces
   66         text = re.sub(r'\$.*?\$', '', text) # Remove math environments
   67         return text
   68 
69     # --- Execute ---
   70     if __name__ == "__main__":

71         print("Start collecting paper data...")
   72         papers = collect_papers()
   73 
   74         if papers:
75             # Convert to Pandas DataFrame for convenient processing
   76             df = pd.DataFrame(papers)
   77 
   78             # Clean summary
   79             print("\nCleaning summary text...")
   80             df['abstract_cleaned'] = df['abstract'].apply(clean_text)
   81 
82             # Remove the original summary column, retaining only the cleaned version
   83             df = df.drop(columns=['abstract'])
   84             df = df.rename(columns={'abstract_cleaned': 'abstract'})
   85 

86             # save as JSON Lines format
   87             output_filename = "arxiv_papers_2021-2024.jsonl"
   88             df.to_json(output_filename, orient='records', lines=True)
   89 
   90             print(f"\nData collection and cleaning completed!")
   91             print(f"Total papers collected: {len(df)}.")
   92             print(f"Data saved to: {output_filename}")
   93             print(f"Data format: JSON Lines (.jsonl)")
```

  Step 3: Final Data Format

  After executing the above script, you will get a file named arxiv_papers_2021-2024.jsonl. This is a JSON Lines file where each line is an independent, complete JSON object representing a paper.

  The data structure for each line is as follows:
   1 {"id":"http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12345v1","title":"A Novel Approach to Self-Supervised Learning","authors":["Jane Doe","John Smith"],"published_date":
     "2023-05-20","year":2023,"source_conference_query":"NeurIPS","abstract":"We propose a new framework for self-supervised learning that leverages contrastive 
     methods... The model is trained on a large corpus of unlabeled data and shows significant improvements over previous state-of-the-art methods on several 
     downstream tasks."}


Field Descriptions:

* id: The unique ID of the paper on arXiv, which can serve as a primary key.
* title: The paper title (original text).
* authors: List of authors.
* published_date: Publication date of the paper.
* year: Publication year for easy filtering.
* source_conference_query: Conference keywords we used to find this paper.
* abstract: Cleaned abstract text. This is the core data that our algorithm will use.

Summary and Next Steps

This process provides you with a clean and structured dataset containing thousands to tens of thousands of abstracts from recent top conference papers. This dataset can be directly used for:

1. Building `novelty_db`: Batch convert the text in the abstract field into vectors and store them in a FAISS index.
2. Training `AutomatedThemeGenerator`: Use the text in the abstract field as document input for clustering and concept extraction.

This solution is based entirely on public data and free tools, with extremely low costs, while the data quality and representativeness are very high, sufficient to support our subsequent experimental validation.

# USER: 
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│  > Please first analyze my code and algorithm, and think about: what kind of paper database does my algorithm need? Is it concept phrases, method phrases, titles, or abstracts?  │
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# AGENT: 



✦ An excellent and profound question! This is precisely the core that must be considered when conducting experimental design. We cannot blindly collect data, but must clearly understand what role the data plays in the algorithm and how it is used.

  By analyzing your code cg_mcts_qwen.py and algorithm concept insight.txt, I can clearly tell you that what your algorithm needs most are complete paper abstracts.

  Below is a detailed analysis explaining why abstracts are the best choice, while other options (such as phrases, titles) are less suitable.

  Our algorithm mainly uses the external paper library in the following two key aspects:

   1. `AutomatedThemeGenerator` (Automated Theme Generator): Used to create new, cross-domain research topics.
   2. `simulate_and_evaluate` of `CG_MCTS` (Novelty Assessment): Used to calculate the v_novelty (novelty value) of a generated concept.

  Let's analyze the data requirements for these two aspects one by one:
  ---

1. For AutomatedThemeGenerator: Requires rich "conceptual raw materials"

* How does the algorithm work?
   This module works by clustering vectors from a paper database to form "concept continents". Then, it randomly selects two documents from two different "continents" (concept_a and concept_b) and feeds their full text to an LLM, requesting the LLM to creatively fuse these two concepts.

* Data requirements analysis:
   * If using phrases (e.g., "contrastive learning"): When the prompt is "Please fuse 'contrastive learning' and 'graph neural networks'", the LLM can certainly respond, but this fusion will be very broad and generic because it lacks specific application scenarios and problem contexts. This is like giving a chef two seasonings and asking them to imagine a dish out of thin air.
   * If using titles (e.g., "A New Method for Contrastive Learning"): Titles are slightly better than phrases, but they are still highly condensed and lack necessary context.
   * If using abstracts: This is the most ideal option. An abstract is a condensed, self-contained "snapshot of thought". It contains the problem background, methods used, and key findings. When the prompt is "Please fuse the following two scientific concepts: [Abstract A: About applying contrastive learning in medical imaging] and [Abstract B: About using graph neural networks for drug molecular structure prediction]", the LLM has extremely rich context. It can find intersection points from multiple dimensions such as problem domain (medical imaging vs. drug discovery), methodology (contrastive learning vs. GNN), and objectives (image classification vs. structure prediction), thereby generating a specific, profound, and valuable new topic, such as "Target-drug affinity prediction using contrastive learning-enhanced graph neural networks".

Conclusion: For the topic generator, abstracts provide the necessary depth and context, making them the ideal "raw materials" for high-quality concept fusion.
  ---

  2. For CG_MCTS's simulate_and_evaluate: A complete "thought unit" is needed as a reference frame

   * How does the algorithm work?
      In the evaluation phase of MCTS, the algorithm obtains the complete narrative text (full_text) of the current exploration path and encodes it into a vector seq_vec. Then, it searches in the FAISS index (i.e., our paper library) for the vector most similar to seq_vec
  The novelty score v_novelty is calculated as 1.0 - similarity.

   * Data Requirements Analysis:
      The essence of this process is to answer the question: "How similar is my currently generated complete concept to any existing concept in the human knowledge base?"
       * If the library contains phrases: Our seq_vec represents a complex concept containing problems, methods, and goals. The vectors in the library only represent fragmented concepts like "protein folding" or "reinforcement learning." Comparing them is like comparing a complete sentence to a pile of words for similarity. Our concept will almost certainly be highly similar to certain phrases, leading to biased novelty scores and low signal-to-noise ratio. We cannot determine if this concept is novel as a whole.
       * If the library contains titles: The situation improves, but titles still lack sufficient semantic information. Many papers with different methods may have similar titles.
       * If the library contains abstracts: This is the most precise. In this case, each vector in the FAISS library represents a complete, published "thought unit." When we compare our seq_vec
         with this library, we are performing a "thought unit" versus "thought unit" comparison. If the highest similarity between our concept and all abstract vectors in the library is still very low, we can say with great confidence that the concept we generated, as a whole, is novel in the existing literature.

  Conclusion: For novelty evaluation, the abstract library constructs a reference frame composed of complete "thought units," making the novelty measurement accurate, robust, and meaningful.
  ---

'  Summary Comparison\n.Please translate.'
  ┌─────────────────────┬────────────┬──────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Data Type           │ Semantic Richness │ Context   │ Novelty Assessment Reliability │ Final Evaluation                          │
  ├─────────────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤

  │ Paper Abstract (Abstract) │ High         │ Complete     │ High               │ Best choice. Perfectly matches the two core requirements of the algorithm. │
  │ Paper Title (Title)    │ Medium         │ Limited     │ Medium               │ Can be used as supplementary material, but not the first choice. Insufficient information.   │
  │ Concept/Method Phrase       │ Low         │ Almost None     │ Low               │ Not applicable. The granularity is too fine, which would generate a lot of noise.   │
  └─────────────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘


Therefore, the plan you designed in the second step for "collecting paper abstracts" is completely correct and efficient. What we need are precisely these abstracts that contain problems, methods, and conclusions; they are the foundation on which our algorithm operates.

# USER: 
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│  > You are now a high-level and strict mentor. Regarding the comparative experiments of this paper, how should they be designed compared to other methods? What category of methods should we compare? What are the specific algorithms? Please list a few. How should the evaluation metrics be determined? What other issues should be noted when designing the experiments?                                                                                                               │
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# AGENT: 


✦ Excellent, this question gets to the heart of academic paper writing. A good algorithm requires a rigorous, fair, and persuasive experimental design to demonstrate its value. As your advisor, I require that our experiments not only prove that "our method is effective", but also reveal "why it is effective" and "to what extent it is more effective than other reasonable methods".

Below is our comparative experimental design plan. Please follow it strictly.
  ---
1. Selection of Comparison Methods: Establishing Three "Targets"

  Our proposed CG-MCTS is an algorithm that enhances the novelty and coherence of generated text through intelligent search during inference-time. Therefore, our comparative experiments must be designed around these core characteristics. We select
  three categories of methods as baselines:

  Category 1: Standard Decoding Baselines
   * Purpose: To prove that our complex search mechanism is superior to the "out-of-the-box," unoptimized generation method of LLMs. This is the most fundamental baseline.
   * Specific Algorithms:
       1. Top-p (Nucleus) Sampling: This is currently the most commonly used and effective standard method for open-ended text generation. At each step, it samples from a dynamically determined vocabulary where the sum of probabilities exceeds threshold p. We need to set a reasonable p value (e.g., 0.9) and report it.

  Category 2: Prompt Engineering Baselines
   * Purpose: To prove that our algorithm's advantages do not merely come from "better thinking prompts" but from the systematic search process. These methods do not change the algorithm but stimulate the model's creativity through carefully designed prompts. This is a very strong opponent that must be taken seriously.
   * Specific Algorithms:
       2. Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT): After inputting the topic, simply add the sentence "Let's think step by step." or "Please think step by step" to guide the model to conduct more detailed reasoning.
       3. Self-Refine: This is a multi-step prompting process that simulates iterative optimization without "tree search."
           * Step 1 (Generation): "Based on topic [X], generate a preliminary scientific concept."
           * Step 2 (Reflection): "Please evaluate the concept generated in the previous step, pointing out its main flaws in terms of 'novelty' and 'feasibility.'"
           * Step 3 (Rewrite): "Based on the above reflection, please rewrite and improve this concept to make it more novel and feasible."
           * This process can be repeated for 2-3 rounds to match the computational cost of our MCTS.

  Category 3: Simplified Algorithmic Baselines
   * Purpose: To prove the superiority of the tree structure and UCT selection strategy in our MCTS, rather than just the effectiveness of our value function. This is essentially a "degraded version" of our own algorithm.
   * Specific Algorithms:
       4. Beam Search with Custom Value Function:
           * At the first generation step, generate the K (e.g., K=5) most probable "narrative blocks."
           * Score these K candidates using our hybrid value function `V(seq)` from CG-MCTS.
           * Select the candidate with the highest score and use it as the prefix for the next generation step.
           * Repeat this process until the desired length is reached.
           * This method uses our value function but abandons the "exploration-exploitation" balance and tree-like lookahead capabilities of MCTS, making it a perfect subject for an "ablation study."

  ---

  2. Determination of Evaluation Metrics: Multi-dimensional, Quantitative and Qualitative Combination

  Single metrics are one-sided. We must measure the quality of generated concepts from multiple dimensions.

  A. Automatic Quantitative Metrics

   1. Novelty:
       * Metric: V_novelty, which is 1 - cosine similarity between the vector of the generated concept and its nearest neighbor in a paper abstract database (FAISS-indexed).
       * Calculation: For the final concepts generated by all methods, we uniformly calculate this metric. Higher scores represent greater novelty.

   2. Coherence/Quality - LLM-as-a-Judge:
       * Method: We will use an independent, more powerful third-party LLM (e.g., GPT-4 or Claude 3 Opus) as the "judge." This is the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) practice for evaluating open-ended generation.
       * Process:
           * Provide the judge LLM with a prompt following this template:

```
    1           You are a top-tier scientific review expert. Here is a research topic and two scientific concepts generated by different AI systems (A and B). Please rate them on a scale of 1-5
      from the following three dimensions and provide brief justifications. Finally, please indicate which one is better overall.
    2 
3           Research Topic: [Enter our research topic]
    4 

    5           Dimension 1: Scientific Rationality (Plausibility) - Is this concept scientifically feasible without obvious factual errors? (1=Complete nonsense, 5=Very plausible)
    6           Dimension 2: Structure & Clarity - Is the writing of this concept clear, is the structure complete, and is the logic coherent? (1=Chaotic, 5=Very clear)
    7           Dimension 3: Innovation Potential - Does this concept present interesting, novel viewpoints or methods? (1=Stale, 5=Highly innovative)
    8 
    9           Concept A: [text generated by the first model]
   10           Concept B: [text generated by the second model]
   11 
   12           Please output your rating and final choice in JSON format.
           * By conducting pairwise comparisons between our method and all baseline methods, we can obtain very reliable quantitative ratings.
```

  B. Human Qualitative Evaluation

  This is the gold standard of the experiment, irreplaceable.

   1. Method: Blind, Pairwise Comparison.
   2. Procedure:
       * Recruit a group of evaluators (e.g., doctoral students in the field).
       * For the same input topic, randomly shuffle the concepts generated by our method and those generated by a baseline method (A/B testing) and present them to the evaluators.
       * Ask evaluators to choose "which is better" or "both are equal" based on the same three dimensions mentioned above (rationality, clarity, innovation).
       * Metrics: Calculate the win/loss/draw rates of our method relative to each baseline method.
       * Reliability test: Calculate the consistency coefficient among evaluators (such as Fleiss' Kappa) to prove that our evaluation results are reliable rather than based on random preferences.
  ---

  3. Key Issues That Must Be Addressed in Experimental Design

   1. Strict Control of Variables:
       * Model Consistency: All comparative methods must use the exact same backbone LLM (our Qwen model) and identical model weights.
       * Input Consistency: All methods must be tested based on the exact same set of topics generated by AutomatedThemeGenerator. We need at least 50-100 different topics to ensure the generality of our results.
       * Fair Computational Budget:
         Our MCTS method consumes significantly more computational resources (in terms of token count) than a single Top-p sampling. This is a critical fairness issue. We must design a roughly equivalent computational budget for baseline methods. For example:
           * For Self-Refine, allow it to iterate for 2-3 rounds, making its total token consumption close to our MCTS's total consumption.
           * For Top-p Sampling, generate multiple (e.g., 10) samples, then select the best one using our value function V(seq), and report this process.

   2. Conduct Ablation Studies:
       * To prove that each component of our algorithm design contributes, we must "weaken" our own approach.
       * Design the following variants:
           * CG-MCTS (w/o Guidance): Remove the directional guidance term w_dir from the UCT formula to verify the effect of v_target.
           * CG-MCTS (w/o Novelty): Remove the novelty term w_nov from the value function and observe whether the generated results degenerate into more "mediocre" ideas.
           * CG-MCTS (w/o Progress): Remove the progress term w_prog from the value function and observe whether it becomes easier to generate repetitive or meaningless expansions.
       * Comparing these ablated versions with the complete version is a hallmark of top conference papers.

   3. Statistical Significance of Results:
       * Don't just report average scores! For all quantitative metrics, we must conduct statistical significance tests (e.g., paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed-rank test).
       * When reporting results, we must include p-values to demonstrate that the advantages achieved by our method are not due to random fluctuations. A p-value < 0.05 is the minimum requirement.

  By following the above design, our experiments will be rigorous, comprehensive, and highly persuasive. This will not only validate our algorithm but also provide deeper insights into its working mechanism, resulting in a high-quality academic paper.


# USER:

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# AGENT:

✦ Excellent, you have already started to think about how to draw wisdom from existing literature, which is a crucial step in conducting research. I have read the summary.txt file you provided.
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✦ I notice that the summary.txt file is currently inaccessible. That's okay, though. Based on my previous analysis of your algorithm, as well as the current evaluation paradigm in the field of AI-generated text, I can provide you with a clear, rigorous, and state-of-the-art evaluation methodology.

The papers you've collected likely involve some or all of the following methods. My suggestions will provide you with a framework to integrate and understand the evaluation concepts in these papers.

Core Evaluation Philosophy: Multi-dimensional and Hierarchical

We must never rely on a single metric. Our algorithm claims to improve novelty (Novelty) and quality (Quality), so our evaluation system must directly address these two core claims. I recommend adopting a hierarchical evaluation framework to ensure we have both solid core metrics and innovative exploratory metrics.
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Tier 1: Core Evaluation Metrics (The cornerstone of the experiment, must be completed)

This tier is indispensable for any top-tier conference paper, as it directly and powerfully demonstrates the value of our algorithm.

1. Human Preference Evaluation - The Gold Standard
   * Method: Using blind review and pairwise comparison (A/B Test) approach.
   * Procedure:
       * For the same research topic, present concepts generated by our CG-MCTS method and those generated by a baseline method to evaluators (e.g., master's or PhD students in the field) in random order.
       * Evaluators do not know which concept was generated by which model.
       * Evaluators are required to choose the better one (or declare a tie) from the following three dimensions:
           1. Novelty & Insightfulness: Which concept is more surprising, more inspiring, and more likely to open up new research directions?
           2. Scientific Plausibility & Feasibility: Which concept is more scientifically sound, has a clearer technical path, and more closely resembles a realistic and feasible research plan?
           3. Overall Preference: Overall, which concept would you be more willing to fund or research in depth?
   * Output Metrics: The win/lose/draw percentage of our method relative to each baseline. Additionally, the inter-evaluator consistency reliability (such as Fleiss' Kappa) must be calculated to demonstrate the objectivity of the evaluation results.

2. LLM-as-a-Judge - Efficient Proxy Evaluation
   * Background: Recent research (such as the LLM-as-a-Judge related papers you may have read) has demonstrated that using a powerful, independent third-party LLM (such as GPT-4, Claude 3) as a "judge" yields scoring results highly correlated with human experts. This can serve as a core tool for us to conduct large-scale, low-cost experiments.
   * Method: Scoring system + detailed reasoning.
   * Procedure:
       * Design a sophisticated judge prompt that requires the judge LLM to score individual generated concepts on a [1-10] scale.
       * The scoring dimensions should be consistent with human evaluation:
           * score_novelty: Novelty score.
           * score_plausibility: Plausibility score.
           * score_clarity: Clarity and structure score.
       * In addition to scores, the model must be required to output detailed scoring reasoning (reasoning), which greatly increases the interpretability of the results and can be used as case studies for qualitative analysis in the paper.
   * Output Metrics: Comparison of average scores between our method and all baseline methods across each dimension. Similarly, statistical significance tests (such as t-tests) should be conducted, and p-values reported.

3. Automatic Novelty Score
   * Method: This is the V_novelty already built into our algorithm.
   * Procedure: Feed all final concepts generated by all methods (ours and baselines) into this evaluation function to calculate their semantic distance from existing paper abstract databases.
   * Output Metrics: A numerical value between 0 and 1. The value of this metric lies in that it provides a completely objective, reproducible, and quantifiable result that is strongly correlated with the core assumptions of our algorithm.
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  Tier 2: Advanced and Supplementary Metrics (Enhancing the depth and persuasiveness of the paper)

  If Tier 1 determines the lower limit of the paper, Tier 2 determines its upper limit.

  4. Generation Diversity Assessment
   * Purpose: To prove that our method not only stably generates high-quality ideas but can also explore diverse and innovative points in different directions around a single theme.
   * Methods:
       * For the same input theme, run our algorithm and baseline algorithms N times each (for example, N=10).
       * Calculate the pairwise semantic similarity among these N outputs.
       * Metric 1 (Inter-Similarity): The average internal similarity of the N outputs. The lower this value, the better, indicating greater differences and higher diversity among the generated results.
       * Metric 2 (Distinct Ideas): By clustering the vectors of the N outputs and counting the number of clusters, we can quantify how many "distinctly different ideas" have been generated.

  5. Controllability & Ablation Analysis
   * Purpose: This part is strictly speaking experimental analysis, but its conclusions are an important evaluation dimension. It answers "Why is our method good?"
   * Methods: By "weakening" certain parts of our algorithm (that is, the Ablation Studies I mentioned last time), we measure the key contributions of these parts.
       * Remove the v_target direction guidance and observe the changes in novelty scores.
       * Adjust the weights of w_nov, w_coh, and w_prog in the value function and observe the changes in the style of generated ideas.
   * Outputs: Through charts, show the degree of influence of different components on the final metrics (such as novelty and LLM referee scores).
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  Summary and Recommendations

   1. Establish Core Principles: Tier 1 is our lifeline. In experimental design and execution, we must prioritize ensuring the data quality and procedural rigor of human evaluation and LLM-as-a-Judge.
   2. Demonstrate Depth: Building upon the completion of Tier 1, diversity assessment and ablation analysis will be the highlights that distinguish our paper from other ordinary works. Be sure to dedicate energy to these aspects.
   3. Integrate Literature: In the papers you read, if you encounter novel evaluation metrics or methods, consider which tier they belong to and whether they can more directly measure certain advantages of our algorithm compared to my proposed methods. For example, if a paper proposes
      a proxy metric for measuring "scientific insight," we could consider incorporating it into our Tier 2 framework.

  Remember, the ultimate purpose of evaluation is to tell a convincing story: our CG-MCTS, through systematic search, indeed more effectively explores the "knowledge manifold" of language models compared to other methods, thereby generating more valuable scientific
  ideas. Every metric you choose should be an indispensable piece of this puzzle.

# USER: 
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# AGENT: 


✦ Alright, I successfully accessed and carefully read the content of summary.txt this time. The quality of these papers is excellent; they are not only relevant to our research direction but also provide strong support for designing an irrefutable evaluation plan. Your reading has been very valuable. Now, I will incorporate the essence of these papers to make significant improvements and specifications to my previous suggestions. This plan will be more forward-looking and better aligned with the review standards of current top-tier conferences.
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Core Evaluation Philosophy (Unchanged, but strengthened)

Our core philosophy—multi-dimensional and hierarchical—remains unchanged. But now, we have stronger theoretical weapons. The papers on Self-Refine and LLM-as-a-Judge have proven that for open-ended generation tasks like ours without simple "correct answers," high-quality human evaluation and powerful LLMs as proxy evaluators are widely recognized standard paradigms in academia. The Code-T paper, in turn, reminds us from a different perspective that we must clearly articulate why objective metrics like pass@k cannot be used, thereby actively guiding the reviewers' line of thought.
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  Refined Hierarchical Evaluation Framework

  Tier 1: Core Evaluation Metrics (Foundation, now with literature support)

  1. Human Preference Evaluation (Gold Standard)
   * Method: Maintain blind review and pairwise comparison (A/B Test) unchanged.
   * Improvements: In our paper, we can directly cite the evaluation methods from the `Self-Refine` paper to demonstrate that we have adopted a validated, standard human evaluation process in the field. This enhances the rigor of our methodology.
   * New subtask: Before conducting evaluations, perform a calibration session for the evaluators. Show them several pre-labeled examples of "good," "medium," and "poor" quality to ensure all evaluators have a consistent understanding of concepts like "novelty" and "feasibility."

  2. LLM-as-a-Judge (Upgraded from "efficient agent" to "core quantitative tool")
   * Method: Maintain the scoring system + detailed reasoning.
   * Improvements:
       * Explicit citation: We can directly cite papers like "Large Language Models are Human-Level Labelers..." to demonstrate the effectiveness and high human correlation of LLM-as-a-Judge, establishing it as our primary quantitative tool for large-scale experiments.
       * Introduce "Panel of Specialist Judges" mechanism: Inspired by the multi-agent approach in AutoGen, we should not use a single generic judge. We can design a "panel" with multiple LLM judges playing different roles:
           * "Innovation Review Officer": Specifically responsible for evaluating the novelty and potential impact of ideas (corresponds to score_novelty).
           * "Feasibility Analyst": Specifically responsible for evaluating scientific validity and technical feasibility of the approach (corresponds to score_plausibility). Its prompt can include stronger critical instructions such as "Please examine this idea with the strictest standards, identifying any potential factual errors or unrealistic assumptions."
           * "Writing Reviewer": Specifically evaluates the structure, clarity, and language quality of the text (corresponds to score_clarity).
       * Final score: Can be a weighted average of multiple "judges" scores, which is more robust than a single judge's rating.

  Tier 2: Advanced and Supplementary Metrics (From "bonus items" to "in-depth analysis")

  3. Groundedness/Factual-Consistency Check
   * Method: Inspired by the "Faithfulness" metric in RAG papers, we can design a more specific "groundedness" check.
   * Process:
       1. Automatically or manually extract verifiable key claims from the generated ideas (e.g., "Method X has been used to solve problem Y", "Dataset Z has... characteristics").
       2. Use an automated retrieval system (which could be a simple Google Search API, or a retriever built on our paper abstract database) to find evidence supporting or refuting these claims.
       3. Output metric: Percentage of "grounded claims." For example, if an idea contains 5 key claims and 4 can find literature support, its groundedness score is 80%. This metric directly addresses the question of "whether the idea is built on a solid scientific foundation."

  4. Enhanced Ablation Study
   * Method: Maintain the previous ablation design unchanged.
   * Improvements: When analyzing results, we should not only show changes in final metrics but also conduct in-depth analysis of qualitative changes in the generated text. For example, when removing the v_target direction guidance, do the generated ideas become more "conservative" or "divergent" in topic? When removing the w_progression term, do more repetitive phrases appear in the text? These qualitative analyses can make our ablation study more insightful.

  Tier 3: Argumentation Completeness (Newly added section)

  5. Justification of the Evaluation Methodology Itself
   * Purpose: This is a crucial, newly added section inspired by the Code-T paper. We must dedicate a specific paragraph in the experimental design section of our paper to proactively and clearly articulate:
   * Core arguments:
       * "Unlike code generation (such as Code-T) or question-answering tasks, the 'novel scientific idea generation' we study is an open-ended creative task with no single correct answer (no single ground truth)."
       * "Therefore, objective metrics like pass@k or Exact Match are not applicable here."
       * "Following best practices in this field (such as Self-Refine), we adopt an evaluation framework that uses human preference as the gold standard and powerful LLMs as scalable proxies to comprehensively measure multiple key quality dimensions of the generated ideas."
   * Function: This discussion will proactively address reviewers' potential questions about "why there are no objective metrics," demonstrating our thoughtful understanding of evaluation philosophy.

  Summary: Refined Action Plan

   1. Core experiments: Strictly implement Tier 1 human evaluation and the "Panel of Judges" mechanism. Collect win rates, various scores, and perform statistical significance tests.
   2. In-depth analysis: Implement Tier 2's "Groundedness Check" and in-depth ablation studies to demonstrate the reliability of our ideas and the sophistication of our algorithm design.
   3. Enhanced argumentation: When writing the paper, must include Tier 3 content to clearly position our task type and persuasively demonstrate the validity and advancement of our chosen evaluation system.

  This refined plan is not just an experimental process but an argumentation strategy for our entire paper. It firmly grounds our work in the most cutting-edge practices of the relevant field, making our conclusions more solid and credible.

# USER: 

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# AGENT: 


✦ This is a very insightful question that gets to the heart of our experimental design.

The answer is: yes, but they appear in the form of "evaluation criteria" rather than an independent mathematical formula like the BLEU score.

In the literature you've been reading, the "metrics" commonly used to evaluate "innovativeness" are actually "score values" output after subjective judgment by an agent (human or LLM). Let me break this down for you in detail:

1. Mainstream approach: Treating "innovativeness" as an evaluation dimension rather than a formula

Self-Refine and LLM-as-a-Judge are the best representatives of this paradigm.

* How do they operate?
   They don't try to define a specific formula like Innovation_Score = (uniqueness_of_words * semantic_distance) / syntactic_complexity. Because everyone recognizes that "innovation" is an extremely complex, high-level semantic concept that any simple mathematical formula would oversimplify and fail to capture in its essence.

* What are their "metrics"?
   Their "metric" is the score itself. They treat "innovativeness" (Innovativeness, Creativity, Insightfulness) as an evaluation dimension, then present the text to be evaluated along with an evaluation criterion (Prompt) to a powerful agent (human evaluator or a judge LLM like GPT-4), and say: "Please give this text a score from 1 to 10 based on the dimension of 'innovativeness.'"

   So, the "metrics" here are:
    * For LLM-as-a-Judge: score_novelty (a float from 1-10)
    * For human evaluation: win_rate_on_novelty (a percentage)

   The height of this score represents the text's performance in terms of "innovativeness." The credibility of this score is endorsed by the capability of the evaluator (human or LLM).

2. Perspectives from other related papers

* `RAG` (Retrieval-Augmented Generation):
  The evaluation metrics in these papers (such as Faithfulness) are actually the opposite of innovativeness. They measure whether the generated content is faithful to given knowledge, emphasizing "not making things up" rather than "proposing new perspectives."
* `Code-T` (MCTS for code generation): The metric pass@k in these papers measures functional correctness. A code snippet might have high innovativeness (for example, using a completely new algorithmic approach), but if it fails a unit test due to a small syntax error, its pass@k score would be 0. This shows that pass@k measures "usability" rather than "innovativeness."

3. What does this mean for us? (Key conclusions)

This finding is extremely advantageous for us, revealing two major strengths of our work:

First: Our evaluation approach is completely consistent with SOTA (State-of-the-Art).
We use LLM-as-a-Judge and human evaluation to judge "innovativeness," which is exactly the mainstream and proven effective method adopted by cutting-edge works like Self-Refine. We can confidently say that our evaluation method represents the current best practice in the field.

Second: It highlights the uniqueness and value of our self-developed metric `V_novelty`!
None of the papers you've read propose a quantifiable metric based on semantic space like ours.

* V_novelty (i.e., 1.0 - a.dot(b), the distance from the most similar vector in the knowledge base) is a specific, mathematically definable, and reproducible metric.
* It measures "semantic originality"—that is, how far the generated concept is in vector space from all known concepts.
* This can serve as an excellent, objective supplement and validation to the subjective scores given by LLMs or humans.

Final improved recommendation

Therefore, for evaluating "innovativeness," we should adopt a "subjective-objective" combined strategy that offers the best of both worlds:

1. Primary metric (Holistic Innovativeness):
   * Use LLM-as-a-Judge and human evaluation, treating "innovativeness and insightfulness" as a core evaluation dimension to obtain a comprehensive, subjective innovation score. This is the main storyline.

2. Supplementary metric (Semantic Originality):
   * Report our self-designed V_novelty score. This is our algorithm's "signature dish," an objective, quantified novelty metric. We can analyze the correlation between V_novelty scores and the innovation scores given by LLMs/humans, which in itself is a very valuable experimental finding.

Through this approach, we can demonstrate that our evaluation system aligns with academic frontiers while highlighting the unique theoretical contributions of our own work.