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ResearchTown
An ICML 2025 multi-agent platform for *community-level* automatic research simulation. ResearchTown models a research community as agents (Researchers), environments (collaboration rooms), and engines (state-machine controllers that route agents between tasks like idea discussion, rebuttal writing, paper writing, and reviewing). Sits in the ideation + lit-synthesis + drafting + review block.
Where it sits
left: what it builds on · right: what builds on it · pale: exampleContributed by UIUC ULab
How studies reach it
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Disciplines it reaches
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What it does
Studies *community dynamics* rather than single-pipeline output: how groups of agents interact, divide labor, and shape each other's work. The simulator-vs-pipeline framing makes it a natural vehicle for studying field-level RISE questions (cf. [@gartenberg2026morebetter], [@filimonovic2025genai]).
- Focus
- ideation
- Inputs
- research-community-spec, paper-seed
- Outputs
- agent-trajectories, simulated-papers, simulated-reviews
- Architecture
- multi-agent, dag-orchestration, persistent-memory, artifact-versioning
- Maintained by
- ULab, UIUC
- Started
- 2024
Description
Data model- Discipline
- General
- Method family
- not specified
- Design
- not specified
- Research stage
- Literature synthesisResearch questionHypothesesDraftingReview
- Contributors
- UIUC ULab
- Usage
- not used in published research yet
- Source
- RISE project catalogue · projects/landscape · @4c17bae
- Record
- pipeline:research-town · JSON
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Bring it into the standard
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