Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review

Google Research · 6 months ago · 5

Two AI agent frameworks were introduced to assist academic researchers: PaperVizAgent generates publication-ready figures from manuscript text using a five-agent collaborative system, while ScholarPeer automates peer review by dynamically searching literature and verifying technical claims. PaperVizAgent achieved a score of 60.2 on a 0-100 scale, exceeding the human baseline of 50.0 and outperforming baselines like GPT-Image-1.5 and Paper2Any. These tools aim to reduce administrative overhead in research workflows and improve the quality and efficiency of academic publishing, though both are experimental prototypes not yet production-ready.