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AI-Newton: A Concept-Driven Physical Law Discovery System without Prior Physical Knowledge
You-Le Fang, Dong-Shan Jian, Xiang Li, Yan-Qing Ma
Current limitations in human scientific discovery necessitate a new research paradigm. While advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer a highly promising solution, enabling AI to emulate human-like scientific discovery remains an open challenge. To address this, we propose AI-Newton, a concept-driven discovery system capable of autonomously deriving physical laws from raw data -- without supervision or prior physical knowledge. The system integrates a knowledge base and knowledge representation centered on physical concepts, along with an autonomous discovery workflow. As a proof of concept, we apply AI-Newton to a large set of Newtonian mechanics problems. Given experimental data with noise, the system successfully rediscovers fundamental laws, including Newton's second law, energy conservation and law of gravitation, using autonomously defined concepts. This achievement marks a significant step toward AI-driven autonomous scientific discovery.
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