arXiv:2606.01444cs.AIcond-mat.mtrl-sci2026-06被引 1

用范畴论构建可自我修正的科学发现系统,区分搜索与真正发现。

Self-Revising Discovery Systems for Science: A Categorical Framework for Agentic Artificial Intelligence

论文配图:Self-Revising Discovery Systems for Science: A Categorical Framework for Agentic Artificial Intelligence
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  • 以范畴论建模科学发现过程,将知识状态视为函子,通过左拉格朗日扩展实现范式迁移。
  • 在蛋白力学系统中,发现链内柔性的模式依赖弹性行为,由最小描述长度约束筛选。
  • 系统支持技能、任务、验证等元素的类型化组合,形成可追溯的知识计算图,适合科研自动化场景。

科学发现不仅是答案生成,更是对证据、工具、操作和验证者所处表征范式的修订。本文为材料科学中的代理型发现构建范畴论框架。在固定范式 b 及其模式范畴 S_b 下,系统状态为函子 I_t: S_b → Set,溯源为 ∫_{S_b} I_t。固定范式下的操作仅为保持溯源的自函子更新;而发现则是经过验证的范式转移 u: S_b → S_b',旧工具通过左兰开扩展 Lan_u I_t 运输,与转移后状态对比以识别非函子性残留内容。这实现了检索、搜索与发现的客观分离。我们实例化该框架于两个系统:Builder/Breaker 在蛋白力学世界模型中,通过最小描述长度门限修订模型,最终接受一种基于慢集体模式参与的全模态弹性耦合律(模式条件弹性);CategoryScienceClaw 将类型化技能、工具、开放需求、工作流变异、门控机制、应力测试与公开讨论整合为带证明的知识-计算图。纤维网络案例记录候选模型、被拒方案、AIC门控、扰动测试,并最终采纳以纤维计数描述符为基础的各向异性刚度代理模型。两例共同表明,范畴论既可作为发现的数学语言,也可作为自修正AI发现系统的工程规范。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Scientific discovery is not only answer generation but revision of the representational regime in which evidence, artifacts, operations, and verifiers are typed. We develop a category-theoretic account of agentic discovery for materials science. In a fixed regime b with schema category S_b, the system state is a copresheaf I_t: S_b -> Set, and provenance is the category of elements \int_{S_b} I_t. Fixed-regime operation is an update on such states, endofunctorial only when provenance-preserving refinements are specified and preserved. Discovery is instead a verified regime transition u: S_b -> S_b': old artifacts are preserved, transported by the left Kan extension Lan_u I_t, and compared with the post-transition state to identify residual content beyond functorial transport. This separates retrieval, search, and discovery without subjective novelty. We instantiate the framework in two systems. In Builder/Breaker, a protein-mechanics world model is revised under a Minimum Description Length gate; the accepted law expresses within-chain flexibility as all-mode elastic compliance conditioned by slow collective-mode participation, or mode-conditioned compliance. In CategoryScienceClaw, typed skills, artifacts, open needs, workflow mutation, gates, stress tests, and public discourse become a proof-carrying knowledge-computation graph. A fiber-network example records candidate models, rejected alternatives, an AIC gate, perturbation tests, and an accepted orientation-tensor anisotropic stiffness surrogate over an isotropic fiber-count descriptor. Together, the cases show how category theory can be both a mathematical language for discovery and an engineering specification for self-revising AI discovery systems.

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