AI RESEARCH
The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2603.01092v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Scientific discovery is constrained not only by what is true, but by what is cognitively available to the researchers currently exploring a field. Many directions are coherent in light of the literature yet unlikely to be proposed because no existing community occupies the right combination of concepts, methods, and intuitions. Modern language models inherit this bias, recombining high-density regions of the literature when prompted for novel ideas. We.