AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora
Hai Lan, Zhifeng Bao, Guoliang Li, Daomin Ji, Ge Lee, Feng Luo et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
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Methodology & findings
Study design
System design and implementation with experimental evaluation; the artifact integrates multiple layers (knowledge representation, query planning, execution) and is evaluated through extensive experiments comparing performance against existing systems.
Primary method
design science
Main result
AgenticScholar significantly outperforms existing systems in effectiveness, efficiency, and interpretability. The abstract states that "Extensive experiments demonstrate that AgenticScholar significantly outperforms existing systems in effectiveness, efficiency, and interpretability, offering a practical foundation for future research on agentic scholarly data management."
Research paradigm
Design science / computational systems research
Author conclusions
The authors conclude that "AgenticScholar autonomously translates natural language queries into executable DAG plans, enabling end-to-end reasoning over multi-modal scholarly data" and that the system "offering a practical foundation for future research on agentic scholarly data management."
Open questions raised
- The paper identifies that "existing RAG and document analytics systems fail to achieve all query types simultaneously" and positions AgenticScholar as addressing the gap of unified support for diverse scholarly queries ranging from retrieval to knowledge discovery and generation at scale.
- Existing RAG and document analytics systems fail to achieve all query types simultaneously; there is a need for systems that unify structured knowledge management, agentic planning, and interpretable execution to support diverse scholarly queries at scale.
- The authors identify that "existing RAG and document analytics systems fail to achieve all query types simultaneously," indicating a gap in unified systems that can handle retrieval, knowledge discovery, and generation at scale for scholarly corpora.
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