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From: From large language models to AI agents in energy materials research: enabling discovery, design, and automation

Figure 6. Advanced frameworks for AI-driven idea generation. (A) VirSci multi-agent collaboration simulating research teams. Adapted from Su et al.^[70] (CC BY 4.0); change made: no changes made; (B) Chain-of-Ideas (CoI) agent structuring retrieved knowledge into coherent reasoning chains. Adapted from Li et al.^[71] (CC BY 4.0); change made: no changes made. AI: Artificial intelligence; VORSCI: virtual interactive research for scientific collaboration and innovation; RAG: retrieval-augmented generation; CoT: Chain-of-Thought; GPT: generative pre-trained transformer; SC: self-consistency; RoG: recall-augmented generation; ToT: tree of thought; SAAS: self-alignment augmented search; GraphGPT: graph-based generative pre-trained transformer; ECOI: ensemble of contextualized output interpretation; GoT: Graph-of-Thought; ORA: output refinement augmentation.