Scientific Discovery under Validation Congestion via Multi-Fidelity Pairwise Rankings

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arXiv:2610.01827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern computational methods can now propose candidate molecules, materials, and other scientific designs at an unprecedented scale, creating a validation congestion where candidates are abundant, but experimental capacity to physically evaluate them remains scarce. Discovering novel scientific designs has therefore become increasingly dependent on curation: selecting a small set of promising designs for slow and costly experiments. Existing curati