arXiv:2607. 04508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI-for-Science can automate ideation, planning, and analysis, but final validation still depends on real experiments.
By Kyunghoon Hur, Chihun Lee
arXiv:2608.31076v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous scientific research agents are increasingly applied to end-to-end scientific workflows, including literature review, data analysis, experi...
By Xuehai Wang, Haowei Qin, Tongxin Liu, Junkai Li, Buqiang Xu, Jintian Zhang, Yijun Chen, Zirui Xue, Shumin Deng
arXiv:2608. 03501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI for Research (AI4Research) leverages AI to automate and improve scientific workflows.
By Zejun Liu, Jian Wu, Ru Peng, Yuliang Ji, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Yue Zhang
arXiv:2610.28763v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Frontier coding agents are increasingly framed as end-to-end automated researchers, and ML for science offers a demanding test of that promise: impro...
By Ming Zhong, Stacy Li, Nicholas Carlini, Matthew Jagielski
Autonomous scientific research agents are increasingly applied to end-to-end scientific workflows, including literature review, data analysis, experimentation, and report generation. However, open-end...
The article argues that agentic auto‑research should be guided by dense, intermediate signals of epistemic progress rather than by sparse final benchmarks. It compares this approach to fuzz testing, where coverage provides continuous feedback that directs input mutation. The authors propose controlled experiments to test whether such signals improve discovery efficiency and reduce false positives, and demonstrate in a simulated physics setting that an AI agent using feedback‑driven search uncovers a hidden law while optimization‑driven baselines fail.
By Yifeng He, Jicheng Wang, Yinzhe Zhao, Chengyang Shi, Jiachen Liu, Hao Chen
arXiv:2610.18933v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern coding agents are fundamentally reshaping the role of human input for computational research: they write code, launch in silico experiments, a...
By Robert Tjarko Lange, Luca Grillotti, Yutaro Yamada, Rujikorn Charakorn, David Ha
arXiv:2510. 19771v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly moving towards proactivity: rather than awaiting instruction, they exercise agency to anticipate user needs and solve them autonomously.
By Gil Pasternak, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Julia White, Dhruv Atreja, Matthew Thomas, George Hurn-Maloney, Ash Lewis
arXiv:2606. 12834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As scientific workflows shift from deterministic executables to LLM-based agents, the development practices on offer, such as fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and prompt-and-go, bury the scientist's judgment.
By Woong Shin, Craig A. Bridges, Marshall T. McDonnell, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
arXiv:2610.17740v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to discover scientific equations from experimental data. Such a discovery system has two parts that...
By Pengze Li, Jiaquan Zhang, Encheng Su, Yunbo Long, Zihang Zeng, Xinping Liu, Han Zhang, Junchi Yu, Shixiang Tang, Aoran Wang, Xi Chen
MLExpert is a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model designed to autonomously perform long‑horizon machine learning engineering (MLE) tasks. It uses a post‑training method that combines hierarchical agentic supervised fine‑tuning with Windowed Interaction RL to learn from intermediate outcomes in complex experimentation workflows. On the MLE‑Bench Lite benchmark, MLExpert raises the average medal rate from 37.9% to 72.7%, matching the performance of larger frontier models and demonstrating generalizable optimization capabilities across related tasks.
By Shangheng Du, Jinxin Shi, Shuaiyu Zhang, Yiming Wu, Junpeng Zhao, Shiyang Feng, Xin Li, Liang He, Xiangchao Yan, Bo Zhang
Organon is a recursively self‑improving agent designed for scientific discovery that autonomously revises its search strategies, population management, diagnostics, memory, and worker coordination during execution. By diagnosing and correcting its own adaptation procedures, the agent continuously refines the mechanisms guiding its future self‑improvement. Across 21 computational discovery tasks—including algorithm design, GPU kernel optimization, and systems optimization—Organon outperforms competing frameworks, achieving a 20.5% mean performance gain on ALE‑Bench Lite and up to 1.67× speedups on KernelBench.
By Cheikh Ahmed, Zhiyu Zhang, Kun Mao, Yong Zhang, Zirui Zhou