arxivcs.AI2026-06-29
BayesEvolve: Explicit Belief States for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Xuening Wu, Shan Yu, Qianya Xu, Shenqin Yin
Autonomous scientific discovery systems increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to propose new hypotheses, but many such systems condition primarily on experimental memory: archives of high-scoring candidates or heuristic summaries of recent trials. We argue that discovery…