Progressive Ideation using an Agentic AI Framework for Human-AI Co-Creation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00475v1
• Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:06:06 GMT
• Title: Progressive Ideation using an Agentic AI Framework for Human-AI Co-Creation
• Authors: Sankar B, Srinidhi Ranjini Girish, Aadya Bharti, Dibakar Sen,
• Abstract summary: MIDAS is a novel framework that replaces the single-AI paradigm with a distributed 'team' of specialized AI agents.<n>This agentic system progressively refines ideas and assesses each one for both global novelty (against existing solutions) and local novelty (against previously generated ideas)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The generation of truly novel and diverse ideas is important for contemporary engineering design, yet it remains a significant cognitive challenge for novice designers. Current 'single-spurt' AI systems exacerbate this challenge by producing a high volume of semantically clustered ideas. We propose MIDAS (Meta-cognitive Ideation through Distributed Agentic AI System), a novel framework that replaces the single-AI paradigm with a distributed 'team' of specialized AI agents designed to emulate the human meta-cognitive ideation workflow. This agentic system progressively refines ideas and assesses each one for both global novelty (against existing solutions) and local novelty (against previously generated ideas). MIDAS, therefore, demonstrates a viable and progressive paradigm for true human-AI co-creation, elevating the human designer from a passive filterer to a participatory, active, collaborative partner.

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