InternAgent: When Agent Becomes the Scientist -- Building Closed-Loop System from Hypothesis to Verification
This addresses the need for faster and more precise scientific discovery, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing multi-agent and automation concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of automating scientific research by introducing InternAgent, a closed-loop multi-agent framework for autonomous scientific research across various fields, achieving performance gains such as increasing reaction yield prediction from 27.6% to 35.4% in 12 hours and enhancer activity prediction accuracy from 0.65 to 0.79 in 4 hours.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is accelerating the transformation of scientific research paradigms, not only enhancing research efficiency but also driving innovation. We introduce InternAgent, a unified closed-loop multi-agent framework to conduct Autonomous Scientific Research (ASR) across various scientific research fields, enabling researchers to tackle complicated problems in these fields with unprecedented speed and precision. InternAgent highlights three key advantages: 1) Scalability: InternAgent has demonstrated its versatility across 12 scientific research tasks, capable of generating innovative ideas to enhance the performance of baseline code. 2) Interactivity: InternAgent provides an interface for human expert feedback and multi-agent interaction in automated end-to-end processes, allowing for the seamless integration of domain expert knowledge. 3) Efficiency: InternAgent has achieved promising performance gains in several scientific fields with significantly less time cost compared to human efforts. For instance, in reaction yield prediction, it increased from 27.6% to 35.4% in just 12 hours; in enhancer activity prediction, accuracy rose from 0.65 to 0.79 with only 4 hours of processing; and in 2D semantic segmentation, precision advanced from 78.8% to 81.0% in a mere 30 hours.