arxivcs.MAcs.AIcs.SE2026-07-19
Auto Research for Materials: Auditable AI-Scientist Workflows with Held-Out Transfer
Jingjie Ning, Xiaochuan Li, Shanshan Zhong, Ji Zeng, Guolin Ke
An AI research agent can improve the score it sees without finding a modelling change that works on new materials. We ask a stricter question. After repeated experiments, does the selected change survive on data that never entered the loop, and can its code be reused? We separate…