Discovering physical mechanisms from experiment-simulation mismatches
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arXiv:2604.26703v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scientific discovery often begins where observation and prediction disagree. As computation and machine learning survey chemical space, experiment-simulation mismatches are exposed at scale, while tracing them to physical mechanisms remains expert-led. Here we present eXplainable DFT (XDFT), a self-evolving agent that turns this process into an executable search. XDFT formalizes candidate mechanisms as executable hypotheses, adjudicates their consequences against experiment and distils trajectories into priors for later searches. This c
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.26703v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scientific discovery often begins where observation and prediction disagree.
- As computation and machine learning survey chemical space, experiment-simulation mismatches are exposed at scale, while tracing them to physical mechanisms remains expert-led.
- Here we present eXplainable DFT (XDFT), a self-evolving agent that turns this process into an executable search.
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