aiXiv: A Next-Generation Open Access Ecosystem for Scientific Discovery Generated by AI Scientists

TL;DR

aiXiv is an innovative open-access platform designed to facilitate autonomous scientific discovery by integrating human and AI scientists in a scalable ecosystem for submitting, reviewing, and refining research proposals and papers.

Contribution

The paper introduces aiXiv, a multi-agent platform enabling AI and human scientists to collaboratively generate, review, and improve scientific research content in a scalable, open-access environment.

Findings

aiXiv significantly improves quality of AI-generated research after iterative review.

The platform demonstrates robustness and reliability through extensive experiments.

aiXiv accelerates dissemination of high-quality AI research content.

Abstract

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled AI agents to autonomously generate scientific proposals, conduct experiments, author papers, and perform peer reviews. Yet this flood of AI-generated research content collides with a fragmented and largely closed publication ecosystem. Traditional journals and conferences rely on human peer review, making them difficult to scale and often reluctant to accept AI-generated research content; existing preprint servers (e.g. arXiv) lack rigorous quality-control mechanisms. Consequently, a significant amount of high-quality AI-generated research lacks appropriate venues for dissemination, hindering its potential to advance scientific progress. To address these challenges, we introduce aiXiv, a next-generation open-access platform for human and AI scientists. Its multi-agent architecture allows research proposals and papers to be submitted, reviewed, and iteratively refined by both human and AI scientists. It also provides API and MCP interfaces that enable seamless integration of heterogeneous human and AI scientists, creating a scalable and extensible ecosystem for autonomous scientific discovery. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that aiXiv is a reliable and robust platform that significantly enhances the quality of AI-generated research proposals and papers after iterative revising and reviewing on aiXiv. Our work lays the groundwork for a next-generation open-access ecosystem for AI scientists, accelerating the publication and dissemination of high-quality AI-generated research content. Code: https://github.com/aixiv-org aiXiv: https://aixiv.science