11 papers
CMCNet: Aligning Ultrasound Image Embeddings with Textual TI-RADS Representations for Fine-Grained Thyroid Classification
Bingxin Yu, Xueli Wang, Jerry Zhou +6
Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound feature categories that are a…
Experience Graphs: The Data Foundation for Self-Improving Agents
Gang Liao, Yujia He, Abdullah Ozturk +22
The database community has repeatedly advanced the state of the art by recognizing that new workloads demand new system architectures. We argue that long-horizon agentic tasks -- c…
Escaping the Cognitive Well: Efficient Competition Math with Off-the-Shelf Models
Xingyu Dang, Rohit Agarwal, Rodrigo Porto +3
In the past year, custom and unreleased math reasoning models reached gold medal performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Similar performance was then reported…
FML-bench: A Controlled Study of AI Research Agent Strategies from the Perspective of Search Dynamics
Qiran Zou, Hou Hei Lam, Wenhao Zhao +11
AI research agents accelerate ML research by automating hypothesis generation, experimentation, and empirical refinement. Existing agent strategies range from greedy hill-climbing…
Auto-Discovery-Bench: Diagnosing Structured State Tracking in Oracle-Guided Discovery
Tingting Chen, Beibei Lin, Srinivas Anumasa +5
Interactive discovery requires agents to maintain and update structured beliefs over many rounds of feedback. Before evaluating agents in noisy, open-ended scientific environments,…
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
Alejandro H. Artiles, Martin Weiss, Levin Brinkmann +6
Scientific discovery is constrained not only by what is true, but by what is cognitively available to the researchers currently exploring a field. Many directions are coherent in l…