arxivcs.AI2026-07-15
CIPHER: A Decoupled Exploration-Selection Framework for Test-Time Scaling of Data Science Agents
Maxime Heuillet, Sharadind Peddiraju
Data science tasks span from closed-ended information extraction to open-ended analysis, presenting significant challenges for automation. Recent AI agents powered by language models show promise for handling such complex tasks. However, existing agents typically rely on a single…