Paper List
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GOPHER: Optimization-based Phenotype Randomization for Genome-Wide Association Studies with Differential Privacy
This paper addresses the core challenge of balancing rigorous privacy protection with data utility when releasing full GWAS summary statistics, overco...
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Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex A low-cost embedded solution using YOLOv8 and Raspberry Pi
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck in industrial insect farming: the lack of automated, real-time sex sorting systems for Acheta domesticus ...
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Training Dynamics of Learning 3D-Rotational Equivariance
This work addresses the core dilemma of whether to use computationally expensive equivariant architectures or faster symmetry-agnostic models with dat...
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Fast and Accurate Node-Age Estimation Under Fossil Calibration Uncertainty Using the Adjusted Pairwise Likelihood
This paper addresses the dual challenge of computational inefficiency and sensitivity to fossil calibration errors in Bayesian divergence time estimat...
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Few-shot Protein Fitness Prediction via In-context Learning and Test-time Training
This paper addresses the core challenge of accurately predicting protein fitness with only a handful of experimental observations, where data collecti...
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scCluBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking of Clustering Algorithms for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
This paper addresses the critical gap of fragmented and non-standardized benchmarking in single-cell RNA-seq clustering, which hinders objective compa...
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Simulation and inference methods for non-Markovian stochastic biochemical reaction networks
This paper addresses the computational bottleneck of simulating and performing Bayesian inference for non-Markovian biochemical systems with history-d...
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Assessment of Simulation-based Inference Methods for Stochastic Compartmental Models
This paper addresses the core challenge of performing accurate Bayesian parameter inference for stochastic epidemic models when the likelihood functio...
Autonomous Agents Coordinating Distributed Discovery Through Emergent Artifact Exchange
Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Department of Biological Engineering, MIT | Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT | Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the fundamental limitation of current AI-assisted scientific research by enabling truly autonomous, decentralized investigation where multiple AI agents coordinate without central planning through emergent artifact exchange.
核心创新
- Methodology Introduces ArtifactReactor for plannerless coordination using pressure-based scoring (novelty, centrality, depth, age) to prioritize needs fulfillment and schema-overlap matching for multi-parent synthesis across independent analyses.
- Methodology Implements a comprehensive artifact layer with immutable records, SHA-256 content hashes, and DAG-based provenance tracking that enables full computational lineage from raw outputs to published findings.
- Methodology Develops a persistent ecosystem with autonomous mutation layer that actively prunes redundant workflows and resolves conflicts, plus persistent memory allowing agents to build upon complex epistemic states across multiple cycles.
主要结论
- The framework successfully demonstrated heterogeneous tool chaining across 300+ interoperable scientific skills spanning biology, materials science, chemistry, and genomics domains.
- Four autonomous investigations showed emergent convergence among independently operating agents, with cross-domain applications including peptide design for SSTR2 receptor and resonance bridging across biology, materials, and music.
- The system enables traceable reasoning from raw computation to published findings through comprehensive provenance tracking in artifact DAGs, creating auditable scientific records with full computational lineage.
摘要: We present ScienceClaw + Infinite, a framework for autonomous scientific investigation in which independent agents conduct research without central coordination, and any contributor can deploy new agents into a shared ecosystem. The system is built around three components: an extensible registry of over 300 interoperable scientific skills, an artifact layer that preserves full computational lineage as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and a structured platform for agent-based scientific discourse with provenance-aware governance. Agents select and chain tools based on their scientific profiles, produce immutable artifacts with typed metadata and parent lineage, and broadcast unsatisfied information needs to a shared global index. The ArtifactReactor enables plannerless coordination: peer agents discover and fulfill open needs through pressure-based scoring, while schema-overlap matching triggers multi-parent synthesis across independent analyses. An autonomous mutation layer actively prunes the expanding artifact DAG to resolve conflicting or redundant workflows, while persistent memory allows agents to continuously build upon complex epistemic states across multiple cycles. Infinite converts these outputs into auditable scientific records through structured posts, provenance views, and machine-readable discourse relations, with community feedback steering subsequent investigation cycles. Across four autonomous investigations, peptide design for the somatostatin receptor SSTR2, lightweight impact-resistant ceramic screening, cross-domain resonance bridging biology, materials, and music, and formal analogy construction between urban morphology and grain-boundary evolution, the framework demonstrates heterogeneous tool chaining, emergent convergence among independently operating agents, and traceable reasoning from raw computation to published finding.