DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively

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Autori principali: Weng, Yixuan, Zhu, Minjun, Xie, Qiujie, Sun, Qiyao, Lin, Zhen, Liu, Sifan, Zhang, Yue
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author Weng, Yixuan
Zhu, Minjun
Xie, Qiujie
Sun, Qiyao
Lin, Zhen
Liu, Sifan
Zhang, Yue
author_facet Weng, Yixuan
Zhu, Minjun
Xie, Qiujie
Sun, Qiyao
Lin, Zhen
Liu, Sifan
Zhang, Yue
contents While previous AI Scientist systems can generate novel findings, they often lack the focus to produce scientifically valuable contributions that address pressing human-defined challenges. We introduce DeepScientist, a system designed to overcome this by conducting goal-oriented, fully autonomous scientific discovery over month-long timelines. It formalizes discovery as a Bayesian Optimization problem, operationalized through a hierarchical evaluation process consisting of "hypothesize, verify, and analyze". Leveraging a cumulative Findings Memory, this loop intelligently balances the exploration of novel hypotheses with exploitation, selectively promoting the most promising findings to higher-fidelity levels of validation. Consuming over 20,000 GPU hours, the system generated about 5,000 unique scientific ideas and experimentally validated approximately 1100 of them, ultimately surpassing human-designed state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods on three frontier AI tasks by 183.7\%, 1.9\%, and 7.9\%. This work provides the first large-scale evidence of an AI achieving discoveries that progressively surpass human SOTA on scientific tasks, producing valuable findings that genuinely push the frontier of scientific discovery. To facilitate further research into this process, we will open-source all experimental logs and system code at https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist/.
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spellingShingle DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively
Weng, Yixuan
Zhu, Minjun
Xie, Qiujie
Sun, Qiyao
Lin, Zhen
Liu, Sifan
Zhang, Yue
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
While previous AI Scientist systems can generate novel findings, they often lack the focus to produce scientifically valuable contributions that address pressing human-defined challenges. We introduce DeepScientist, a system designed to overcome this by conducting goal-oriented, fully autonomous scientific discovery over month-long timelines. It formalizes discovery as a Bayesian Optimization problem, operationalized through a hierarchical evaluation process consisting of "hypothesize, verify, and analyze". Leveraging a cumulative Findings Memory, this loop intelligently balances the exploration of novel hypotheses with exploitation, selectively promoting the most promising findings to higher-fidelity levels of validation. Consuming over 20,000 GPU hours, the system generated about 5,000 unique scientific ideas and experimentally validated approximately 1100 of them, ultimately surpassing human-designed state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods on three frontier AI tasks by 183.7\%, 1.9\%, and 7.9\%. This work provides the first large-scale evidence of an AI achieving discoveries that progressively surpass human SOTA on scientific tasks, producing valuable findings that genuinely push the frontier of scientific discovery. To facilitate further research into this process, we will open-source all experimental logs and system code at https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist/.
title DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26603