DeepReview: Improving LLM-based Paper Review with Human-like Deep Thinking Process

Minjun Zhu, Yixuan Weng, Linyi Yang, Yue Zhang


Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized in scientific research assessment, particularly in automated paper review. However, existing LLM-based review systems face significant challenges, including limited domain expertise, hallucinated reasoning, and a lack of structured evaluation. To address these limitations, we introduce DeepReview, a multi-stage framework designed to emulate expert reviewers by incorporating structured analysis, literature retrieval, and evidence-based argumentation. Using DeepReview-13K, a curated dataset with structured annotations, we train DeepReviewer-14B, which outperforms CycleReviewer-70B with fewer tokens. In its best mode, DeepReviewer-14B achieves win rates of 88.21% and 80.20% against GPT-o1 and DeepSeek-R1 in evaluations. Our work sets a new benchmark for LLM-based paper review, with all resources publicly available.
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2025.acl-long.1420
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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29330–29355
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Minjun Zhu, Yixuan Weng, Linyi Yang, and Yue Zhang. 2025. DeepReview: Improving LLM-based Paper Review with Human-like Deep Thinking Process. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 29330–29355, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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DeepReview: Improving LLM-based Paper Review with Human-like Deep Thinking Process (Zhu et al., ACL 2025)
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