IDEAgent: Agentic Quality-Diversity Search for Research Idea Generation
IDEAgent reframes scientific idea generation as a Quality-Diversity search to create portfolios of high-quality, non-obvious, and diverse ideas. It uses a multi-agent system where evaluators score ideas on quality axes like clarity and soundness, while memory tracks historical variants for diversity. The system introduces the Yield metric to measure the largest set of mutually distinct, high-quality research concepts.