Aleks: AI powered Multi Agent System for Autonomous Scientific Discovery via Data-Driven Approaches in Plant Science

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19383v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:25:34 GMT
• Title: Aleks: AI powered Multi Agent System for Autonomous Scientific Discovery via Data-Driven Approaches in Plant Science
• Authors: Daoyuan Jin, Nick Gunner, Niko Carvajal Janke, Shivranjani Baruah, Kaitlin M. Gold, Yu Jiang,
• Abstract summary: Aleks is an AI-powered multi-agent system that integrates domain knowledge, data analysis, and machine learning.<n>In a case study on grapevine red blotch disease, Aleks progressively identified biologically meaningful features.
• Score: 7.208150268656415
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Modern plant science increasingly relies on large, heterogeneous datasets, but challenges in experimental design, data preprocessing, and reproducibility hinder research throughput. Here we introduce Aleks, an AI-powered multi-agent system that integrates domain knowledge, data analysis, and machine learning within a structured framework to autonomously conduct data-driven scientific discovery. Once provided with a research question and dataset, Aleks iteratively formulated problems, explored alternative modeling strategies, and refined solutions across multiple cycles without human intervention. In a case study on grapevine red blotch disease, Aleks progressively identified biologically meaningful features and converged on interpretable models with robust performance. Ablation studies underscored the importance of domain knowledge and memory for coherent outcomes. This exploratory work highlights the promise of agentic AI as an autonomous collaborator for accelerating scientific discovery in plant sciences.

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