EviGraph: Evidence-Guided Autonomous Research Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04738v2
• Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:15:59 GMT
• Title: EviGraph: Evidence-Guided Autonomous Research Agents
• Abstract summary: We introduce EviGraph, an autonomous research framework that represents the research process as a typed evidence graph.<n>EviGraph inspects evidence chains for missing dependencies, semantic misalignment, and result-claim inconsistencies.<n>It localizes the earliest weak node, and regenerates its affected downstream subgraph.
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• Abstract: Autonomous research agents can generate hypotheses, execute experiments, and draft manuscripts, yet their outputs often contain unsupported claims and inconsistencies between research questions, experiments, results, and conclusions. We argue that this problem is partly architectural: existing systems organize research as sequential pipelines but do not explicitly maintain or validate the evolving claim-evidence structure across stages. In this paper, we introduce EviGraph, an autonomous research framework that represents the research process as a typed evidence graph containing Problem, Gap, Hypothesis, Experiment, Finding, and Claim nodes. The graph serves as the operational state of the agent rather than a post-hoc record. EviGraph inspects evidence chains for missing dependencies, semantic misalignment, and result-claim inconsistencies, localizes the earliest weak node, and regenerates its affected downstream subgraph. Graph checkpointing prevents unsuccessful repairs from corrupting previously validated evidence. Manuscripts are generated only after every retained claim is grounded in a validated evidence chain. Experiments on ARC-Bench-ML and NanoResearch-20 show that EviGraph outperforms the compared end-to-end research-agent baselines in overall research performance, improves Claim Support Rate by 40.19% over the strongest baseline, and achieves 87.73% Experimental Data Consistency. These results demonstrate the value of explicit evidence-state maintenance for reliable autonomous research.

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