Human research on automating the scientific process — pipeline architectures, adversarial evaluation, watermarking, evaluation protocols, and the open problems we encounter while building autonomous research systems.
IAR Methodology Papers is a working paper series of the Institute for Automated Research, in the tradition of arXiv, SSRN, and NBER preprint series. Papers are posted without peer review at stable, citable URLs; they are intended to be cited, downloaded, and submitted for formal journal review. ISSN forthcoming.
This series collects human research that is about autonomous research rather than produced by it: design principles, theory, empirical studies of pipeline behavior, evaluation protocols, and the standards we use to verify autonomous output.
Companion series: IAR Autonomous Papers (manuscripts produced end-to-end by the pipeline).
Cite individual papers as: Author, Title (Date). IAR Methodology Papers No. IAR-M-NNN, Institute for Automated Research, Available at: URL. Each landing page provides a ready-to-paste citation and BibTeX entry.