arxivcs.AI2026-07-09
Ideas Have Genomes: Benchmarking Scientific Lineage Reasoning and Lineage-Grounded Idea Generation
Yifan Zhou, Qihao Yang, Yan Li, Donggang Li, Xiru Hu, Hokin Deng, et al.
Scientific ideas rarely start from a blank page. They inherit mechanisms, repair known limitations, and recombine pieces of earlier work, much like biological genomes. Current benchmarks still say little about whether AI systems can follow this inheritance structure. We present I…