Minimum Description Length Unsupervisedly Separates Law-Grade from Statistical-Grade Knowledge in a Self-Improving Science Agent - and Reveals 86% of Its Own Discoveries Are Statistical.

arXiv:2610.32245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems that discover scientific relations now generate candidate "laws" at scale, but the bottleneck has shifted from generation to vetting: which candidates deserve belief? We show that a deployed self-impro