arxivcs.AIcond-mat.mtrl-sci2026-07-10
Toward Auditable AI Scientists: A Hypothesis Evolution Protocol for LLM Agents
Izumi Takahara, Teruyasu Mizoguchi
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly expected to play a central role in AI-driven scientific discovery. Equipped with broad knowledge, flexible reasoning, and tool use, they have the potential to autonomously explore and solve scientific problems by repeatedly propo…