ResearchResearch paperReasoning & Planning1 source · Oct 8, 2026

MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation

To address this limitation, we propose MindFlow, a framework that explicitly formulates ideation as a graph-structured Flow in Mind, which is composed of modular thinking operators and modeled by a probabilistic mind supernet.

Key points

  • Research idea innovation is a fundamental engine of scientific progress, yet it remains difficult to generate and evaluate in a scalable and controllable way.
  • Given a research topic, a controller dynamically samples thinking flows to generate candidate ideas.
  • We further introduce an evaluation protocol that jointly assesses problem finding and problem solving, going beyond title- or abstractonly judgments.
  • Across diverse topics, MindFlow shows its superiority as an explicit, controllable and optimizable research idea innovator.

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  • [1]MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 01:45 PM
    To address this limitation, we propose MindFlow, a framework that explicitly formulates ideation as a graph-structured Flow in Mind, which is composed of modular thinking operators and modeled by a probabilistic mind supernet.
    Research idea innovation is a fundamental engine of scientific progress, yet it remains difficult to generate and evaluate in a scalable and controllable way.

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