arxivcs.DBcs.AI2026-07-11
Confining Nondeterminism: AI-Driven Research Systems as DBMSs for Reliable, Non-Wasteful, Transparent, and Collaborative Research [Vision]
Kyoungmin Kim, Anastasia Ailamaki
LLM agents that conduct research (proposing ideas, writing and running code, analyzing results) can already carry a study from research question to figures, yet cannot be fully trusted. The same question asked twice in a row returns different answers; the agent announces a number…