method-inventory

Research

Comprehensively identify all relevant methods for a task — 50 methods, 60 web searches budget

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Method Inventory

Purpose

Systematically discover and catalog every relevant method (published, preprint, industry) that has been evaluated on the target task. Combines leaderboard scraping, citation chain traversal, and keyword-based academic search to ensure no significant method is missed.

Budget

Resource	Floor	Target
Methods discovered	30	50
Web searches	40	60
Papers consulted	20	40

State Ledger

<HARD-GATE>
| Metric | Current | Target | Status |
|--------|---------|--------|--------|
| Methods discovered | 0 | 50 | BLOCKED |
| Web searches used | 0 | 60 | — |
| Papers consulted | 0 | 40 | — |
| Leaderboard sources | 0 | 5 | — |
| Citation chains traced | 0 | 10 | — |
</HARD-GATE>

Cannot exit until methods_discovered >= 40 (80% of target).

Available Tactics

leaderboard-harvesting — Scrape Papers With Code, benchmark-specific leaderboards, survey papers

Available SOPs

method-discovery — Core method identification via literature, leaderboards, citation chains

Execution Guidance

Start with leaderboard-harvesting tactic to get the well-known methods
Use method-discovery SOP with citation chaining to find less prominent methods
Search for survey papers and meta-analyses that enumerate methods
Check preprint servers for very recent unpublished methods
Verify each method has: name, year, authors, venue, key innovation
Deduplicate (same method with different names across papers)
Classify methods by family/approach (e.g., transformer-based, GNN-based, hybrid)

Output Format

{
  "task": "string",
  "domain": "string",
  "methods": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "aliases": ["string"],
      "year": 2024,
      "authors": "string",
      "venue": "string",
      "family": "string",
      "key_innovation": "string",
      "paper_id": "string",
      "source": "leaderboard|paper|citation_chain|preprint"
    }
  ],
  "coverage_assessment": {
    "leaderboard_sources_checked": 0,
    "citation_chains_traced": 0,
    "survey_papers_consulted": 0,
    "confidence": "high|medium|low"
  }
}

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic	When to use
leaderboard-harvesting	Systematically collect performance data from platforms and papers

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
method-discovery	Identify all relevant methods via literature, leaderboards, citation chains