Long-horizon scientific discovery requires agents to alternate between exploration, disciplined execution, and critical reassessment as evidence changes. Current language models are trained primarily...
The paper introduces a self‑evolving scientific agent that uses large language models and iterative code generation to build interpretable, physically‑reasoned white‑box controllers for complex systems. The agent deploys candidate controllers in simulations, diagnoses dynamic behavior from multimodal evidence, and refines source code until a robust policy is achieved. Applied to a nonlinear fluid‑structure interaction problem—a two‑joint dogfish swimmer navigating an unsteady wake—the agent autonomously designs a controller that consistently reaches targets across a wide range of conditions without retraining.
By Boai Sun, Wenjin Guo, Zongmin Yu, Liu Yang
arXiv:2609.15973v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models have progressed from learning and reasoning over existing knowledge, to increasingly learning through action, tool use, and outcome f...
By Ling Yang, Zhenfei Yin, Yingcheng Wu
arXiv:2607. 02329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous-research agents have demonstrated end-to-end LLM automation in machine-learning sandboxes where execution provides calibration.
By Haonan Huang
Scientific datasets are commonly organized as hierarchical repositories containing heterogeneous and interdependent files, making their inspection, integration, and analysis labor-intensive and reliant on domain expertise. Although large language model (LLM) agents have advanced substantially in planning, reasoning, and tool use, existing research has largely overlooked their ability to interact with real scientific data assets through executable environments.
arXiv:2606. 08405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While data-intensive deep reinforcement learning can optimize complex control policies, scientific discovery in physical systems fundamentally requires an interpretable chain of reasoning that connects physical evidence to structured control architectures.
By Boai Sun, Wenjin Guo, Zongmin Yu, Liu Yang
La Agente ’Optima is an agentic framework that builds and manages Bayesian optimization campaigns for self‑driving laboratories, separating large language model reasoning from campaign execution. It maintains a persistent optimization state, allowing consistent repetitive loops and auditable decisions, and only returns control to the agent when interpretation or revision is needed. In tests on digital discovery tasks and physical platforms, it corrected measurement failures, improved yields, and recommended formulation changes, outperforming human‑directed campaigns in cost and material usage.
By Marcel M\"uller, Jiaru Bai, Willi Gottstein, Abhijoy Mandal, Mohammad Nazeri, Elia Savino, Yanlin Fang, Sujoy Das, Sergio Pablo Garc\'ia Carrillo, Yeonghun Kang, Juan B. P\'erez-S\'anchez, Simone Pilon, Martin Fitzner, Timothy No\"el, Frank Gu, Varinia Bernales, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik
arXiv:2606. 04505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific simulators are increasingly being integrated into LLM-driven systems for high-stakes simulation-driven decision-making.
By Yuhan Yang, Ruipu Li, Alexander Rodr\'iguez
arXiv:2609.16436v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Simulations based on large language models (LLMs) have proven to be powerful for understanding human behavior, making them valuable additions to the...
By Jiayue Gaveal Fan, Arul Murugan, Shreyas Krishnan, Abhishek Nagaraj
arXiv:2606. 08234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based scientific agents have shown strong capacity for autonomous research, yet their safety layers remain structurally divorced from core reasoning: they inspect pipeline outputs rather than shaping the deliberation that produces them.
By Tanush Swaminathan, Runmin Jiang, Letian Zhang, Min Xu
arXiv:2608.30109v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on extensive scientific research are increasingly integrated as assistants for scientific discovery. However, most...
By Shrinidhi Kumbhar Santosh Mashetty Divij Handa Kevin Coutinho, Siddharth Sambhaji Ghule, Chitta Baral
arXiv:2606. 01189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We argue that the AI community is now ready to move beyond benchmarking and consolidate scattered efforts in model analysis into a systematic discipline, a direction we term Model Science.
By Przemyslaw Biecek, Luca Longo, Jianlong Zhou, Thomas Fel, Andreas Holzinger, Wojciech Samek