Pei-Shi Zou

Minimum Description Length Unsupervisedly Separates Law-Grade from Statistical-Grade Knowledge in a Self-Improving Science Agent - and Reveals 86% of Its Own Discoveries Are Statistical

AI systems that discover scientific relations now generate candidate"laws"at scale, but the bottleneck has shifted from generation to vetting: which candidates deserve belief? We show that a deployed self-improving science agent - one that has admitted 252 relations through held-out prediction courts - already computes...