$\mathrm{TRIZ}^{a}$: Guiding Agent Evolution from Pattern Recognition to Solution Invention

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arXiv:2610.04555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose $\mathrm{TRIZ}^{a}$ (TRIZ exponentiated by an agent), a general R\&D automation paradigm that combines TRIZ inventive theory with LLM-driven agent evolutionary search. TRIZ's 40 inventive principles and contradiction matrix provide structured, explainable directions for solution generation, replacing random or untyped mutation with theory-guided ideation. Functional information (FI), operationalized under a frozen reference contract, is