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NOVA: Fundamental Limits of Knowledge Discovery Through AI

May 18, 2026arXiv Artificial Intelligence

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arXiv:2605.15219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can AI systems discover genuinely new knowledge through iterative self improvement, and if so, at what cost? We introduce the NOVA framework, which models the common ``generate, verify, accumulate, retrain'' loop as an adaptive sampling process over a

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