arXiv AI

How AI Agents Discover Scientific Equations: From Hydrotope Rediscovery to New Water-Wave Amplitudes

The paper investigates how AI agents can discover and validate scientific formulas, focusing on the hydrotope—a geometric formula that unifies polynomial pieces of nonlinear surface-wave scattering. Through controlled experiments, the authors compare human–agent collaboration, single-prompt rediscovery, and various guided approaches, finding that only a PI$+$two-student workflow reliably reconstructs the full hydrotope and even uncovers a new analytic expression for the six-point amplitude $A_6$. The study highlights the challenges of combining exponentially many terms and the importance of coordinated analytic and numerical tasks for successful formula discovery.

arXiv AI
Jul 17

MathCoPilot: An Interactive System for Human-AI Symbiotic Paradigm of Mathematical Research

arXiv:2607. 14582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing LLM-based theorem provers have achieved impressive results on formal mathematics benchmarks, yet they remain confined to acting as autonomous agents that prove a stated proposition.

By Junjie Zhang, Jiayu Liu, Wenbin Liu, Zhenya Huang, Doudou Wang, Yan Jiang, Leiye Xu, Tao Xiong, Wen Huang, Qi Liu, Guoping Hu, Enhong Chen, Mengping Zhang, Xiangdong Ye
arXiv AI
Aug 19

The Problem Is the Problem: Towards Scalable Mathematical Discovery

The paper introduces a new human‑AI collaboration paradigm for mathematical discovery, shifting from selecting individual problems to exploring broad research directions. It presents the Find, Attempt, and Recommend (FAR) pipeline, which automatically searches a literature corpus, filters candidate conjectures, and surfaces promising resolutions for expert review. In a combinatorics pilot, FAR processed over 5,000 papers, identified thousands of open conjectures, and ultimately highlighted 77 items that led to new discoveries.

By Zeyu Zheng, Shengtong Zhang, Jeremy Avigad, Prasad Tetali, Sean Welleck
arXiv AI
Jul 17

ReasFlow: Assisting Reasoning-Centric Scientific Discovery in Applied Mathematics via a Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent System

arXiv:2607. 14178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models have fueled autonomous AI agents capable of tackling complex scientific tasks, yet existing automated research systems remain predominantly focused on empirically driven domains with quantitative benchmarks, leaving theory-driven discovery, particularly in mathematically grounded disciplines requiring rigorous proofs and synthesis of domain knowledge, largely underexplored.

By Yutong He, Daibo Li, Guohong Li, Jiahe Geng, Zhengyang Huang, Can Ren, Zekun Zhang, Yifan Liu, Shuchen Zhu, Hengrui Zhang, Boao Kong, Ming Sun, Shu Li, Chenyi Li, Jiang Hu, Kun Yuan, Zaiwen Wen, Pingwen Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 6

A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

arXiv:2608. 04872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symbolic regression aims to discover closed-form equations from data, but existing LLM-guided methods often rely on a unified proposal loop that compresses heterogeneous search failures into a scalar score and a single prompt.

By Wenxiao Zhao, Dong Liu, Kaiyi Xu, Feng Liu, Zhen Zhao, Fei Ben, Shu Wang, Wenhao Li, Yingnian Wu, Fenghua Ling, Haobo Li, Lei Bai
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

A-SR: Self-Evolving Agentic LLMs for Symbolic Regression via Hierarchical Coordination

Symbolic regression aims to discover closed-form equations from data, but existing LLM-guided methods often rely on a unified proposal loop that compresses heterogeneous search failures into a scalar score and a single prompt. We propose A-SR, a self-evolving agentic framework that shifts the control unit from expression edits to role-conditioned evidence views.