@inproceedings{xie-etal-2026-far,
    title = "How Far Are {AI} Scientists from Changing the World? A Survey of Autonomous Scientific Discovery",
    author = "Xie, Qiujie  and
      Weng, Yixuan  and
      Zhu, Minjun  and
      Fang, Junying  and
      Shen, Fuchen  and
      Huang, Shulin  and
      Lin, Zhen  and
      Wang, Zhouyang  and
      Li, Shichen  and
      Zhou, Jiahui  and
      Mao, Zilan  and
      Liu, Sifan  and
      Liu, Zhenhao  and
      Yin, Dalv  and
      Wei, Fanjunduo  and
      Ning, Zhiyuan  and
      Yang, Zijie  and
      Yang, Linyi  and
      Wu, Jian  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1285/",
    pages = "29272--29288",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}