collaborators

9 papers

cs.LG2026

Idea Search: Guiding Tree Search with Ideas to Explore Diverse Scientific Methods

Xuefei Julie Wang, Hao Cui, Michael P. Brenner +1

Tree Search-based test-time scaling of LLMs is a powerful tool for automated scientific coding. However, pure Tree Search sometimes struggles with systematic exploration, becoming…

cs.AI2026

An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software

Eser Aygün, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Gheorghe Comanici +39

The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments\cite{hannay2009how}. To address this, we…

cs.AI2026

Prospective multi-pathogen disease forecasting using autonomous LLM-guided tree search

Sarah Martinson, Michael P. Brenner, Martyna Plomecka +3

Probabilistic forecasting of infectious diseases is crucial for public health but relies on labor-intensive manual model curation by expert modeling teams. This bespoke development…

cs.CL2026

Optimized Three-Dimensional Photovoltaic Structures with LLM guided Tree Search

Michael P. Brenner, Lizzie Dorfman, John C. Platt

We present a case study for how AI coding systems can be used to generate novel scientific hypotheses. We combine a generic coding agent (Google's AntiGravity) with an LLM-driven t…

physics.ao-ph2026

Probabilistic Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting Across California's Sierra Nevada Watersheds with Agentic AI

Ignacio Lopez-Gomez, Michael P. Brenner, Tapio Schneider

Accurate seasonal runoff forecasts are critical for managing California's reservoirs and water supply for millions of its residents. Winter snow accumulation provides a strong sour…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Expert Evaluation of LLM World Models: A High- Superconductivity Case Study

Haoyu Guo, Maria Tikhanovskaya, Paul Raccuglia +20

Large Language Models (LLMs) show great promise as a powerful tool for scientific literature exploration. However, their effectiveness in providing scientifically accurate and comp…