Scientific feedback reveals productive regimes beyond training conventions
arXiv:2512.15756v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human-imposed design conventions can restrict the alternatives represented in scientific training data and shape the search preferences learned by generative models. We show that scientific performance feedback can redirect the learned search distribution toward productive regions beyond those conventions, without explicitly rewarding departures from them. We test this process in reactor lattice design with simulated feedback and chemica…