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Hui Mao

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Preprint Aug 2026

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

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...

Hui Mao · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

Evidence-Based Scientific Question Discovery: A Framework with Historical Backtesting

A framework that turns a traceable, reproducible, scope controlled research corpus into ranked, falsifiable research questions is presented, instantiate the framework on exoplanet atmospheres, a domain that uniquely combines literature, structured catalogs, and space telescope archives.

Hui Mao · 0 citations

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