Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station
What this work does
Augments a persistent multi-agent scientific environment with supervisory guidance and periodic meta-reflection to maintain exploration without a single dense intermediate metric.
Connection to discovery
A concrete integrated system and evaluation setting for sustained computational scientific investigation.
Evidence
Rediscovery tasks with oracle-paper criteria compare research systems, and ablations examine coverage and post-reflection behavior; separate tasks lack oracle papers.
Scope and limitations
Few tasks, model-specific budgets and potential pretraining exposure constrain generalization; the paper explicitly cannot rule out prior exposure to oracle findings.
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