Reliable Self-Evolution with Imperfect Proxy Rewards

The paper introduces Conformal Interval-Driven Self-Evolution (CISE), a method that uses conditional conformal inference and online density-ratio estimation to create candidate‑specific reward intervals for self‑evolving search in materials science. CISE applies conservative interval‑based rewards, ensuring that only candidates whose required property intervals lie entirely within feasible regions are returned. Experiments on three self‑evolving search tasks show that all candidates returned by CISE are true positives under high‑fidelity evaluation, whereas baseline methods produce more candidates but include false positives.

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