Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Retrieval and Synthesis: A Compound AI Architecture for Scientific Discovery
The explosive growth of scientific knowledge impedes interdisciplinary knowledge discovery and collaboration. To address this, we propose BioSage—a composite AI architecture integrating large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to enable collaborative intelligence across biomedicine, artificial intelligence, data science, and biosafety. Our contributions are threefold: (1) a specialized agent design for cross-disciplinary terminology alignment and traceable reasoning; (2) a modular agent coordination paradigm supporting query planning, response synthesis, cross-modal translation, and multimodal analysis (text, figures, structured data); and (3) a user-centered interactive mechanism. Evaluated on multiple scientific benchmarks, BioSage outperforms baseline LLM and RAG methods by 13–21%. Moreover, on a newly constructed bio-AI cross-modal benchmark, it significantly enhances knowledge acquisition efficiency and research collaboration capability.