Benchmarking the Discovery Engine

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00964v1
• Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:13:31 GMT
• Title: Benchmarking the Discovery Engine
• Authors: Jack Foxabbott, Arush Tagade, Andrew Cusick, Robbie McCorkell, Leo McKee-Reid, Jugal Patel, Jamie Rumbelow, Jessica Rumbelow, Zohreh Shams,
• Abstract summary: The Discovery Engine is a general purpose automated system for scientific discovery.<n>It combines machine learning with state-of-the-art ML interpretability to enable rapid and robust scientific insight.
• Score: 1.268004015017258
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The Discovery Engine is a general purpose automated system for scientific discovery, which combines machine learning with state-of-the-art ML interpretability to enable rapid and robust scientific insight across diverse datasets. In this paper, we benchmark the Discovery Engine against five recent peer-reviewed scientific publications applying machine learning across medicine, materials science, social science, and environmental science. In each case, the Discovery Engine matches or exceeds prior predictive performance while also generating deeper, more actionable insights through rich interpretability artefacts. These results demonstrate its potential as a new standard for automated, interpretable scientific modelling that enables complex knowledge discovery from data.

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