Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers

Chenglei Si, Diyi Yang, Tatsunori Hashimoto
2/12/2026

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@article{si2026llms,
  title  = {Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers},
  author = {Chenglei Si and Diyi Yang and Tatsunori Hashimoto},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:7233390b4f27290659b9a3913ffe3bb727ab8005},
  journal = {ICLR 2025 2025}
}

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