Google's MDA Combines LLMs and Bayesian Inference to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

Google DeepMind introduced the Model Discovery Agent (MDA), combining LLMs with Bayesian inference to automate experiments. MDA sets a new SOTA, discovering scientific laws with five times fewer experiments.

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