Locus: autonomous discovery system that adapts scientific foundation models itself
yusufroohani · x · 2026-11-04
The author outlines the thesis behind their autonomous molecular discovery work: the chosen problems are broadly representative of AI R&D in science — developing bespoke models, adapting foundation models to specialized settings, and designing workflows that effectively search the models' latent spaces.
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