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AI Verification Before the Next Fundamental Physics Breakthrough","Machine learning (ML) has become central to fundamental physics, speeding statistical workflows from data acquisition through inference and hypothesis testing. As ML systems gain autonomy, verifying reliability for discovery claims becomes essential. This review synthesizes the VERaiPHY (Validation & Evaluation for Robust AI in PHYsics) initiative’s frameworks for rigorous ML assessment across particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. It clarifies when verification is required, emphasizing inductive bias, sample-complexity limits, experimental constraints, and the physicist’s evolving role in embedding scientific rigor into AI systems.","arXiv:2607.10039v1 [[physics.data-an](physics.data-an)] 10 Jul 2026  \nAre We Ready for AI-Driven Discovery?  \nAI Verification Before the Next Fundamental Physics Breakthrough  \nGaia Grosso⋆,†,1,2,3, Vinicius Mikuni ⋆,‡, 4, Lukas Heinrich◦,5,6  \n1 NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, Cambridge, MA  \n2 MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Cambridge, MA  \n3 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA  \n4 Nagoya University, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Japan  \n5 Technical University Munich  \n6 Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)  \n⋆ Leading authors , ◦ Advisor , † [gaiag795@mit.edu](gaiag795@mit.edu) , ‡ [vmikuni@nagoya-u.jp](vmikuni@nagoya-u.jp)  \nAbstract  \nMachine learning (ML) has become integral to fundamental physics, accelerating statistical workflows from data acquisition through inference and hypothesis testing. As ML systems grow increasingly autonomous, ensuring their reliability for discovery claims becomes critical. This review synthesizes the VERaiPHY (Validation & Evaluation for Robust AI in PHYsics) initiative’s frameworks for rigorous ML assessment across particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. We establish when verification is essential by contextualizing ML within the statistical discovery workflow. We emphasize fundamental limitations: inductive bias is unavoidable, sample complexity bounds learning, and experimental constraints limit discovery. We reflect on physicists’ evolving role as both experimental designers and evaluators whose judgments encode scientific rigor into AI systems. Responsible integration requires understanding ML’s transformative potential alongside its intrinsic boundaries.  \nContents  \n1 Introduction 2  \n2 The impact of AI in fundamental physics discoveries 4  \n2.1 The End-to-End Experimental Workflow 4  \n2.2 Computational Bottlenecks and ML Solutions 6  \n2.3 New emerging AI paradigms 8  \n3 When verification matters 11  \n3.1 When is it acceptable to be “wrong”? 11  \n3.2 When Must Uncertainties be Rigorously Quantified? 13  \n3.3 When are Interpretability and Explainability Essential? 14  \n4 Fundamental limitations to AI-driven science 16  \n4.1 Inductive Bias is Unavoidable 16  \n4.2 Observational and Experimental Constraints 17  \n4.3 Computational Bounds 19  \n4.4 Verification Itself Has Limits 20  \n5 The Physicist of the Future 20  \n6 Concluding remarks 23  \nReferences 24  \n1 Introduction  \nMachine learning (ML) methods have rapidly become integral components of modern scientific workflows, particularly in fundamental physics, where they are now routinely employed for data analysis, simulation, and inference. Beyond improving the precision and accuracy of statistical analyses in searches for new physics, machine learning has recently shown the potential to drastically accelerate the entire scientific workflow, both by learning data representations that expose complex structure in high-dimensional data, and through emerging agentic capabilities that automate higher-level tasks such as experimental design, simulation steering, and iterative inference. At the same time, the increasing autonomy and complexity of these methods raise pressing questions regarding their scientific reliability, interpretability, and trustworthiness.  \nWhy verification? A central challenge in fundamental physics is that the discoveries of new laws of Nature emerge through indirect statistical inference rather than direct observation. We do not observe quarks, Higgs bosons, or dark matter particles directly. Instead, these phenomena must be inferred from their effects on observables—energy deposits in detectors, angular distributions of decay products, correlations in cosmological fields—that are themselves noisy, incomplete, and contaminated by backgrounds. Unlike many scientific fields where signal can be isolated, fundamental physics searches must disentangle rare signal processes from overwhelming backgrounds within high-dimension","cbCaivH402tHOyjy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivH402tHOyjy","pdf",2321187,1,32,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# The impact of AI in fundamental physics discoveries\n## The End-to-End Experimental Workflow\n## Computational Bottlenecks and ML Solutions\n## New emerging AI paradigms\n# When verification matters\n## When is it acceptable to be “wrong”?\n## When Must Uncertainties be Rigorously Quantified?\n## When are Interpretability and Explainability Essential?\n# Fundamental limitations to AI-driven science\n## Inductive Bias is Unavoidable\n## Observational and Experimental Constraints\n## Computational Bounds\n## Verification Itself Has Limits\n# The Physicist of the Future\n# Concluding remarks","[{\"question\":\"Why is verification particularly important for AI-driven discovery in fundamental physics?\",\"answer\":\"Discoveries rely on indirect statistical inference from noisy, incomplete observables rather than direct observation. 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