Scientific Discovery under Validation Congestion via Multi-Fidelity Pairwise Rankings

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2610.01827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern computational methods can now propose candidate molecules, materials, and other scientific designs at an unprecedented scale, creating a validation congestion where candidates are abundant, but experimental capacity to physically evaluate them remains scarce. Discovering novel scientific designs has therefore become increasingly dependent on curation: selecting a small set of promising designs for slow and costly experiments. Existing curation methods typically rely on data-driven regression models that predict absolute scores, but training these models requires substantial experimental data to begin with. Yet, useful curation signals do not have to take the form of absolute measurements, as scientific design discovery is often compara