arXiv:2603.08127cs.CL2026-03被引 35

AI科学家能自我进化,避免重复失败实验。

EvoScientist: Towards Multi-Agent Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery

  • 三角色协作+持续记忆,让AI自动优化科研策略。
  • 生成想法新颖度提升,代码执行成功率显著提高。
  • 适合需要长期迭代的自动化科研项目。

大型语言模型的兴起使得AI科学家能够完成从想法生成到实验执行的端到端科学发现任务。然而,现有系统多依赖静态手工设计的流程,无法根据历史交互进行自适应调整,导致错失潜在方向、重复失败实验并追求不可行思路。为此,我们提出EvoScientist——一个具备持续记忆与自我演化的多智能体框架。该框架包含三个专用智能体:研究者(RA)负责生成科学想法,工程师(EA)实现并执行实验,演化管理器(EMA)将过往交互提炼为可复用知识。系统配备两个持久化记忆模块:(i) 创意记忆,汇总高分想法并记录失败路径;(ii) 实验记忆,通过代码搜索轨迹和最优实现提取有效数据处理与训练策略。这些记忆使RA和EA能检索过往经验,从而逐步提升想法质量与代码执行成功率。实验表明,EvoScientist在7个开源及商业先进系统中表现更优,在自动与人工评估下均展现出更高新颖性、可行性、相关性和清晰度。同时,通过多智能体演化显著提升了代码执行成功率,验证了持续记忆在端到端科学发现中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The increasing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled AI scientists to perform complex end-to-end scientific discovery tasks requiring coordination of specialized roles, including idea generation and experimental execution. However, most state-of-the-art AI scientist systems rely on static, hand-designed pipelines and fail to adapt based on accumulated interaction histories. As a result, these systems overlook promising research directions, repeat failed experiments, and pursue infeasible ideas. To address this, we introduce EvoScientist, an evolving multi-agent AI scientist framework that continuously improves research strategies through persistent memory and self-evolution. EvoScientist comprises three specialized agents: a Researcher Agent (RA) for scientific idea generation, an Engineer Agent (EA) for experiment implementation and execution, and an Evolution Manager Agent (EMA) that distills insights from prior interactions into reusable knowledge. EvoScientist contains two persistent memory modules: (i) an ideation memory, which summarizes feasible research directions from top-ranked ideas while recording previously unsuccessful directions; and (ii) an experimentation memory, which captures effective data processing and model training strategies derived from code search trajectories and best-performing implementations. These modules enable the RA and EA to retrieve relevant prior strategies, improving idea quality and code execution success rates over time. Experiments show that EvoScientist outperforms 7 open-source and commercial state-of-the-art systems in scientific idea generation, achieving higher novelty, feasibility, relevance, and clarity via automatic and human evaluation. EvoScientist also substantially improves code execution success rates through multi-agent evolution, demonstrating persistent memory's effectiveness for end-to-end scientific discovery.

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