PaperOrchestra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated AI Research Paper Writing

arXiv cs.AI / 4/8/2026

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Key Points

  • PaperOrchestra is presented as a multi-agent framework that converts unconstrained AI research pre-writing materials into submission-ready LaTeX manuscripts, including literature synthesis and auto-generated visuals like plots and diagrams.
  • The work argues existing autonomous paper-writing systems are too rigidly tied to specific experimental pipelines and tend to produce superficial literature reviews.
  • The authors introduce PaperWritingBench, a standardized benchmark built from reverse-engineered raw materials derived from 200 top-tier AI conference papers.
  • In human side-by-side evaluations, PaperOrchestra is reported to substantially outperform autonomous baselines, with large gains in literature review quality (50%-68% absolute win-rate margin) and overall manuscript quality (14%-38%).

Abstract

Synthesizing unstructured research materials into manuscripts is an essential yet under-explored challenge in AI-driven scientific discovery. Existing autonomous writers are rigidly coupled to specific experimental pipelines, and produce superficial literature reviews. We introduce PaperOrchestra, a multi-agent framework for automated AI research paper writing. It flexibly transforms unconstrained pre-writing materials into submission-ready LaTeX manuscripts, including comprehensive literature synthesis and generated visuals, such as plots and conceptual diagrams. To evaluate performance, we present PaperWritingBench, the first standardized benchmark of reverse-engineered raw materials from 200 top-tier AI conference papers, alongside a comprehensive suite of automated evaluators. In side-by-side human evaluations, PaperOrchestra significantly outperforms autonomous baselines, achieving an absolute win rate margin of 50%-68% in literature review quality, and 14%-38% in overall manuscript quality.