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LLMs improve scientific equation discovery via test-time scaling

Researchers have explored test-time scaling (TTS) for scientific equation discovery, an open-ended task where language models search for equations using data feedback. They formulated LLM-driven equation discovery as an iterative search process, unifying various methods under a compute-allocation framework. Experiments on the LLM-SRBench dataset indicated that search width is the most critical allocation parameter, improving with increased compute budgets and enhancing wall-clock efficiency through parallelism. The findings suggest that controlling exploration and exploitation is key to scaling LLM-based scientific equation discovery when an informative verifier is available. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Haowei Lin, Hubert Lim, Xiangyu Wang, Letian Huang, Di He ·

    Test-Time Scaling for Scientific Equation Discovery

    arXiv:2608.28660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) improves language model reasoning by allocating additional test-time compute, but prior work mainly studies closed-ended tasks such as math and coding. We study TTS for automated equation discovery, an open…