機械学習実験の結果を予測する学習済みワールドモデルMLE-World
MLE-World: Predicting Machine Learning Experiment Outcomes with a Learned World Model
プログラムを実行せずにコードとデータ記述から学習実験の最終出力やスコアを予測するワールドモデルを構築し、AI研究エージェントの試行錯誤を低コスト化した論文。
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著者: Brian Ko, Han Wang, Hejia Geng, Li Erran Li, Sherry Yang
分類: cs.LG, cs.AI
原文アブストラクト
AI research agents can propose, execute, and improve programs that solve machine learning tasks. However, executing each candidate program requires training and evaluating ML models, limiting how many candidates an agent can explore at each step. We introduce MLE-World, a world model finetuned from Qwen3.5-4B that predicts a program's terminal output (error traces, training logs, and validation scores) from its code and data description without executing it, together with a confidence score estimating the prediction's correctness. Because a prediction costs one inference call rather than a training run, MLE-World makes test time scaling (TTS) affordable for these agents. We build five TTS policies, guided by MLE-World, that compare several candidates per step by their predicted outputs: Sequential revision, Best-of-N, Pairwise judging, Fusion, and a UCB style rule that also adds an exploration bonus from this confidence score. Since predictions can be wrong, we run a candidate for real only when its confidence score is low. On 17 MLE-bench Lite tasks, MLE-World matches the real terminal output on 77.9% of held out programs, versus 41.1% for much larger prompted models. MLE-World guided TTS achieves up to 22.1% higher observed mean performance than the agent without a world model, with less real execution. Project webpage: https://mle-world.github.io/.