构建方法演进图谱,让AI科研代理能追踪技术发展脉络。
Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists

- 自动识别方法实体,构建带语义的演化关系网络
- 基于百万论文生成940万条有证据支持的因果边
- 适合科研自动化、创新溯源与技术趋势分析
现有科研基础设施以文献为中心,仅提供论文间的引用链接,缺乏对方法演进过程的显式表示。尤其无法刻画方法如何产生、演进并相互依赖。随着AI研究代理成为科学知识的新消费者,这一缺陷日益突出,因其难以从非结构化文本中重建方法演化拓扑。本文提出Intern-Atlas,一个方法演进图谱,可自动识别方法级实体,推断方法间的传承关系,并捕捉推动连续创新的关键瓶颈。该图谱基于1,030,314篇涵盖人工智能会议、期刊和arXiv预印本的论文构建,包含9,410,201条语义类型化的边,每条边均有原文证据支撑,形成可查询的因果网络。为实现结构化应用,进一步提出自引导时间树搜索算法,用于构建随时间演进的方法链。评估显示其与专家标注的演化链高度一致。此外,验证了Intern-Atlas在想法评估与自动化生成中的下游应用能力。本文将方法演进图谱定位为新兴自动化科学发现的基础数据层。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing research infrastructure is fundamentally document-centric, providing citation links between papers but lacking explicit representations of methodological evolution. In particular, it does not capture the structured relationships that explain how and why research methods emerge, adapt, and build upon one another. With the rise of AI-driven research agents as a new class of consumers of scientific knowledge, this limitation becomes increasingly consequential, as such agents cannot reliably reconstruct method evolution topologies from unstructured text. We introduce Intern-Atlas, a methodological evolution graph that automatically identifies method-level entities, infers lineage relationships among methodologies, and captures the bottlenecks that drive transitions between successive innovations. Built from 1,030,314 papers spanning AI conferences, journals, and arXiv preprints, the resulting graph comprises 9,410,201 semantically typed edges, each grounded in verbatim source evidence, forming a queryable causal network of methodological development. To operationalize this structure, we further propose a self-guided temporal tree search algorithm for constructing evolution chains that trace the progression of methods over time. We evaluate the quality of the resulting graph against expert-curated ground-truth evolution chains and observe strong alignment. In addition, we demonstrate that Intern-Atlas enables downstream applications in idea evaluation and automated idea generation. We position methodological evolution graphs as a foundational data layer for the emerging automated scientific discovery.
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