cs.CE · 2026-08-18 · No. 88

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science, 2026-08-18.

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    Historical Backtesting for Scientific Question Discovery: A Protocol and Astronomy Pilot

    Hui Mao

    cs.CE · cs.AI

    Systems that generate scientific research questions are evaluated today by expert scores, LLM-as-judge ratings, or curated case studies -- all subjective, none falsifiable. We formalize historical backtesting as an alternative: a system generates questions from a corpus frozen at a historical cutoff, the questions are frozen before any access to later literature, and a temporally isolated future corpus then determines whether each question...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.16795 · PDF

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