Paper page - Externalizing Research Synthesis and Validation in AI Scientists through a Research Harness

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Abstract

Xcientist enables transparent and accountable AI-driven scientific research by creating persistent artifacts that track the complete research process from problem formulation to mechanism validation and revision.

AI systems can increasingly automate scientific workflows, but the reasoning that links prior evidence, generated ideas, experiments and final claims often remains implicit inside model inference. Here we introduce Xcientist, aresearch harnessthat externalizesresearch synthesisandexperimental validationinto inspectable,contract-governed processes. Xcientist organizesliterature evidence,idea states,implementation plans,ablation recordsandrepair tracesas persistent research artifacts, so that generated mechanisms can be grounded, executed, tested and revised without losing their evidential basis. We identifyclaim driftas a failure mode of automated research, where runnable artifacts no longer support the mechanism originally claimed. Acrosstraining-free memory systems,graph-structured traffic forecastingandmulti-scale physics-informed neural networks, Xcientist preservestraceable trajectoriesfrom problem formulation to mechanism design, validation and bounded revision. These results suggest that AI scientists should be evaluated not only by their final artifacts, but by whether their synthesis and validation processes remain attributable, inspectable and scientifically accountable.

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