arXiv:2609.38309v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The search for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is generally limited not by the supply of theory descriptions but by the lack of discriminatin...
By Ibrahim Elsharkawy, Victoria Knapp-Perez, Wahid Bhimji, Aishik Ghosh
arXiv:2606. 04579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Process Reward Models (PRMs) have achieved remarkable success in mathematical reasoning, their application in complex scientific domains-such as biology, chemistry, and physics remains largely unexplored.
By Xiangyu Zhao, Hengyuan Zhao, Yiheng Wang, Wanghan Xu, Yuhao Zhou, Qinglong Cao, Zhiwang Zhou, Lei Bai, Wenlong Zhang, Xiao-Ming Wu
arXiv:2510. 14807v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit exploration collapse in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), from the perspective of the \emph{candidate distribution} for next-token prediction.
By Ruotian Peng, Yi Ren, Zhouliang Yu, Weiyang Liu, Yandong Wen
arXiv:2602. 06448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based scientific agents have accelerated scientific discovery, yet they often suffer from significant inefficiencies due to adherence to fixed initial priors.
By Yingming Pu, Tao Lin, Hongyu Chen
Finding new physics (NP) is the most important problem in particle physics today. Studying ``anomalies'', i.e., measurements of low-energy observables whose values disagree with the predictions of the...
arXiv:2602. 10576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Symbolic regression aims to distill mathematical equations from observational data.
By Boxiao Wang, Kai Li, Tianyi Liu, Chen Li, Junzhe Wang, Yifan Zhang, Jian Cheng
The paper introduces Agentic Reasoning for Tree Search (ARTS), a method that uses a reasoning language model to navigate the hypothesis‑experiment space in scientific discovery. Unlike traditional approaches that conflate hypothesis quality with execution quality and prune search logs, ARTS evaluates prior execution logs to distinguish implementation failures from poor hypotheses and selects the next hypothesis to pursue. By employing test‑time training to embed search‑tree knowledge into model weights, ARTS achieves a 15.3% relative improvement over leading algorithms on 22 benchmark tasks and enables smaller models like Qwen3‑4B to match or exceed the performance of larger closed‑source models at lower inference cost.
By Gurusha Juneja, Arnav Kumar Jain, Deepak Nathani, William Yang Wang, Xin Eric Wang
arXiv:2604. 08477v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved reasoning in formal domains such as mathematics and code, but extending these gains beyond STEM remains challenging.
By Ashima Suvarna, Kendrick Phan, Mehrab Beikzadeh, Hritik Bansal, Saadia Gabriel
arXiv:2606. 19476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective machine learning depends not only on how we model data, but also on what data we choose to collect.
By Eric Elmoznino, Sangnie Bhardwaj, Johannes von Oswald, Rajai Nasser, Blaise Ag\"uera y Arcas, Jo\~ao Sacramento, Rif A. Saurous, Guillaume Lajoie
arXiv:2607. 10039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) has become integral to fundamental physics, accelerating statistical workflows from data acquisition through inference and hypothesis testing.
By Gaia Grosso, Vinicius Mikuni, Lukas Heinrich
arXiv:2604. 07520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: These lecture notes provide a comprehensive framework for performing global statistical fits in high-energy physics using modern Machine Learning (ML) surrogates.
By Jorge Alda
The paper introduces TRACE, a digital‑advertising diagnostic environment that uses simulated interventions to generate verifiable rewards for training reasoning agents. By injecting controlled interventions into a simulator, the hidden cause of anomalies becomes an oracle label, enabling agents to learn to identify root causes and affected segments through noisy, confounded evidence. Experiments show that reinforcement learning with these synthesized rewards outperforms large prompted baselines, achieving higher accuracy while using fewer tool calls.
By Rui Sun, Zhan Shi, Bing He