Honglin Bao - AI for Innovation - Research

Honglin Bao - AI for Innovation

Research

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AI for Science and Innovation

Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science. Preprint.

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Stronger Artificial Intelligence breakthroughs hasten their own exhaustion. Preprint.
Where there's a will there's a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited. Quantitative Science Studies 2025.
Language models surface the unwritten code of science and society. AACL-IJCNLP 2026.

Building Infrastructures for Better Discovery

Building an atlas of social experiments to link studies, reconcile conflicts, and bridge gaps. Preprint.
Agent's last exam. Preprint.
Narrative flattening: How post-training compresses thematic, affective, and stylistic variation in LLM fiction. EMNLP 2026.
Mapping overlaps in benchmarks through perplexity in the wild. ICLR 2026.

Social Processes of Ideas

Persistence paradox in dynamic science: Evidence from the deep learning revolution. Preprint.
Mapping symbolic ties in US sociology: Evidence from doctoral dissertation vocabularies. Poetics 2026.
From division to unity: A large-scale study on the emergence of computational social science, 1990-2021. The Web Conference 2025.
A simulation-based analysis of the impact of rhetorical citations in science, Nature Communications 2024.

Coverage: Nature

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