Practical Solutions for Automated Data-Driven Discovery with LLMs
Introduction
Scientific discovery has relied on manual processes, but large language models (LLMs) offer new possibilities for autonomous discovery systems. The challenge is to develop fully autonomous systems for generating and verifying hypotheses, potentially accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation.
Previous Attempts and Challenges
Previous attempts at automated data-driven discovery have shown promise, but existing approaches need to provide a comprehensive solution for automating the entire discovery process, including ideation, semantic reasoning, and pipeline design.
DISCOVERYBENCH Proposal
DISCOVERYBENCH aims to systematically evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in automated data-driven discovery by introducing a pragmatic formalization. It distinguishes itself by incorporating scientific semantic reasoning and addressing the challenges of diversity in real-world data-driven discovery across various domains.
Method and Components
DISCOVERYBENCH formalizes data-driven discovery by introducing a structured approach to hypothesis representation and evaluation. It consists of two main components: DB-REAL and DB-SYNTH, encompassing real-world hypotheses and synthetically generated benchmarks for controlled model evaluations.
Evaluation and Results
The study evaluates several discovery agents powered by different language models on the DISCOVERYBENCH dataset. Results show that overall performance is low across all agent-LLM pairs for both DB-REAL and DB-SYNTH, highlighting the benchmark’s challenging nature.
Significance and Future Prospects
DISCOVERYBENCH represents a significant advancement in evaluating automated data-driven discovery systems. Despite modest performance, it aims to stimulate increased interest and research efforts in developing more reliable and reproducible autonomous scientific discovery systems using large generative models.
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