把散乱论文变成可计算的知识图谱,让AI自动发现研究空白和新想法。
The Discovery Engine: A Framework for AI-Driven Synthesis and Navigation of Scientific Knowledge Landscapes
- 用大模型将论文提炼成带证据链接的结构化知识单元
- 构建高维概念张量压缩科学领域,量化各要素间关系
- 支持AI代理在知识图谱中智能导航,辅助生成新假设
当前科学知识传播依赖分散于众多期刊和档案中的独立论文,难以应对近年文献爆炸式增长,导致信息过载、可重复性差及撤稿问题。我们提出发现引擎(Discovery Engine),将零散文献转化为统一、可计算的科学领域表示。核心是利用大语言模型将出版物提炼为结构化的“知识产物”,遵循通用概念模式,并附可验证的来源证据链接。这些产物被编码为高维概念张量,其标签维度对应科学组件(概念、方法、参数、关系),条目量化它们的相互依赖。该张量可动态展开为人类可读视图,如显式知识图(CNM图)或语义向量空间,用于定向探索。关键在于,AI代理可直接在图上操作,运用抽象数学与学习到的操作,导航知识疆域,发现非明显关联,定位研究空白,并协助研究人员生成新的知识产物(假说、设计)。通过将文献转化为结构化张量并实现基于代理的交互,发现引擎为人工智能增强的科学探究提供了新范式,加速发现进程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The prevailing model for disseminating scientific knowledge relies on individual publications dispersed across numerous journals and archives. This legacy system is ill suited to the recent exponential proliferation of publications, contributing to insurmountable information overload, issues surrounding reproducibility and retractions. We introduce the Discovery Engine, a framework to address these challenges by transforming an array of disconnected literature into a unified, computationally tractable representation of a scientific domain. Central to our approach is the LLM-driven distillation of publications into structured "knowledge artifacts," instances of a universal conceptual schema, complete with verifiable links to source evidence. These artifacts are then encoded into a high-dimensional Conceptual Tensor. This tensor serves as the primary, compressed representation of the synthesized field, where its labeled modes index scientific components (concepts, methods, parameters, relations) and its entries quantify their interdependencies. The Discovery Engine allows dynamic "unrolling" of this tensor into human-interpretable views, such as explicit knowledge graphs (the CNM graph) or semantic vector spaces, for targeted exploration. Crucially, AI agents operate directly on the graph using abstract mathematical and learned operations to navigate the knowledge landscape, identify non-obvious connections, pinpoint gaps, and assist researchers in generating novel knowledge artifacts (hypotheses, designs). By converting literature into a structured tensor and enabling agent-based interaction with this compact representation, the Discovery Engine offers a new paradigm for AI-augmented scientific inquiry and accelerated discovery.
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