Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations
As AI-assisted grant proposals outpace manual review capacity in a kind of “Malthusian trap” for the research ecosystem, this paper investigates the capabilities and limitations of LLM-based grant reviewing for high-stakes evaluation.
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10.1145/3800935.3830838
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Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations
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William Thorne, Joseph James, Yang Wang, Chenghua Lin, Diana Maynard
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830838
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CC BY 4.0
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As AI-assisted grant proposals outpace manual review capacity in a kind of “Malthusian trap” for the research ecosystem, this paper investigates the capabilities and limitations of LLM-based grant reviewing for high-stakes evaluation.
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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