HALO: Interactive Co-abductive Reasoning in Scientific Hypothesis Generation
3.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18564.
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SummaryHALO is a human-AI collaborative system implementing 'co-abduction,' a framework for abductive reasoning in scientific hypothesis generation. Built for molecular hypothesis generation in drug discovery, it supports candidate clustering, strategy identification, and multi-strategy synthesis. Studies with 10 medicinal chemists showed improved reasoning quality and more diverse candidate molecules.
Why it mattersNames a concrete collaborative reasoning paradigm and backs it with an implemented system plus expert user study, rather than staying at the concept level.
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