E3: Issue-Level Backtesting for Automated Research Critique

ArXi:2605.27072v1 Announce Type: cross We present E3, an automated review assistant that augments reviewers and engineering teams by identifying decision-relevant technical concerns in research papers. For each concern, E3 reports its nature, its location, its bearing on the contribution, and the analysis or evidence that would resolve it, covering uned claims, missing ablations, weak baselines, hidden assumptions, threats to validity, and leakage risks.