@inproceedings{zou-etal-2026-ai, title = "From {AI} Scientists to {AI} Scientific Communities: A Survey of Collective {A}uto{R}esearch", author = "Zou, Rui and Xu, Tianyi and Zhang, Fan and Zhang, Yao and Zhao, Zhe and Xiaolongwang and Wang, Maolin and Wu, Yingcheng and Wei, Ye", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.824/", pages = "17458--17472", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }