OpenNovelty: An Open-domain Benchmark for Evaluating the Open-ended Novelty of Language Models

Published in arXiv preprint, 2026

OpenNovelty asks a difficult question for scientific-intelligence systems: can a language model reason about whether an idea is actually novel in an open-ended setting?

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Wenqing Jing, Jingyi Deng, Huayu Sha, Jiajun Jiao, Shichun Liu, Changhao Jiang, Ming Zhang, Zhiheng Xi, Shihan Dou, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, and Xuanjing Huang. 2026. OpenNovelty: An Open-domain Benchmark for Evaluating the Open-ended Novelty of Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01576.