EvoScientist: Towards Multi-Agent Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery
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EvoScientist is an adaptive multi-agent framework for end-to-end scientific discovery that continuously improves through persistent memory modules, comprising three specialized agents for idea generation, experiment execution, and knowledge distillation. It outperforms 7 state-of-the-art systems in scientific idea generation and improves code execution success rates through multi-agent evolution.
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EvoScientist is an adaptive multi-agent framework that enhances scientific discovery by continuously learning from past interactions through persistent memory modules.
The increasing adoption ofLarge 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 evolvingmulti-agent AI scientistframework that continuously improves research strategies throughpersistent memoryand self-evolution. EvoScientist comprises three specialized agents: aResearcher Agent(RA) forscientific idea generation, anEngineer Agent(EA) forexperiment implementationand execution, and anEvolution Manager Agent(EMA) that distills insights from prior interactions into reusable knowledge. EvoScientist contains twopersistent memorymodules: (i) anideation memory, which summarizes feasible research directions from top-ranked ideas while recording previously unsuccessful directions; and (ii) anexperimentation 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 andcode execution success ratesover time. Experiments show that EvoScientist outperforms 7 open-source and commercial state-of-the-art systems inscientific idea generation, achieving higher novelty, feasibility, relevance, and clarity via automatic and human evaluation. EvoScientist also substantially improvescode execution success ratesthrough multi-agent evolution, demonstratingpersistent memory’s effectiveness for end-to-end scientific discovery.
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