AI is accelerating physics discovery, but perhaps away from Einstein-level theory building. To understand this gap, we must recognize a striking trend: while being very successful, the most visible AI contributions to physics discovery appear to mirror the historical development of physics, but in reverse.
arXiv:2608. 13633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning is now a central tool for solving inverse problems in particle physics and astronomy.
By Juan Cruz-Martinez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Alexander Held, Michael Kagan
arXiv:2605. 14791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) agents are pushing AI beyond tools toward autonomous scientific discovery.
By Licong Xu, Thomas Borrett
arXiv:2606. 18874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems can increasingly automate scientific workflows, but the reasoning that links prior evidence, generated ideas, experiments and final claims often remains implicit inside model inference.
By Zijian Wang, Hanqi Li, Ziyue Yang, Zijian Hu, Shenghan Zuo, Yunzhe Zhang, Da Ma, Danyu Luo, Chenrun Wang, Jing Peng, Tiancheng Huang, Sijia Guo, Huayang Wang, Zichen Zhu, Senyu Han, Yilu Cao, Kai Yu, Lu Chen
arXiv:2606. 02632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, especially large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used to generate scientific hypotheses and mechanistic explanations from observational data.
By Tyler H. McCormick
arXiv:2607. 12726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Global fits in high energy physics and cosmology often face the challenge of exploring high-dimensional parameter spaces with computationally expensive or topologically complex likelihood functions.
By Jorge Alda, Jacobo Asorey, Alejandro Mir, Siannah Pe\~naranda
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
A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.
arXiv:2607. 12474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in foundation models have transformed AI for Science, enabling remarkably accurate predictive performance across domains ranging from protein folding to weather forecasting.
By Ingmar Posner, Anson Lei, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf
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
arXiv:2603. 13191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) have transformed AI agents into proficient executors of computational materials science, performing a hundred simulations does not make a researcher.
By Haonan Huang
arXiv:2607. 26064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems are becoming autonomous research agents that generate hypotheses, design experiments, and produce discoveries at scales beyond human oversight.
By Belinda Mo