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SplatLab: Autonomous Scientific Discovery for 3DGS Research
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Scientific discovery requires more than generating hypotheses: ideas must be grounded in prior work, translated into executable methods, experimentally validated, challenged by counterevidence, and communicated through reproducible findings. Despite recent advances in autonomous research agents, closing this entire loop remains challenging in rapidly evolving computer-vision fields with complex training pipelines and expensive evaluations. We introduce SplatLab, an autonomous scientific discovery system for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that integrates literature understanding, hypothesis generation, implementation, experimental refinement, falsification, and manuscript writing into a unified research pipeline. Given a research prompt, a target-paper URL, or no input at all, SplatLab identifies research opportunities, proposes novel methods, trains and ablates candidates across Mip-NeRF 360 and LLFF, and produces manuscripts grounded in verifiable experimental evidence. Unlike prior systems, SplatLab performs discovery over verified baseline implementations using domain-aligned modification scaffolds. A cascade-weighted Elo tournament evolves candidate methods using measured GPU performance and verbal-gradient feedback, while a standing falsifier incorporates adversarial stress testing directly into selection. An integrity audit binds reported claims to logged experiments, and reviewer-driven feedback can initiate further experimentation rather than merely revising text. SplatLab discovers methods achieving PSNR improvements of +0.18 to +3.78 dB over matched baselines, including +3.78 dB on astrophotographic nebula rendering, a previously unexplored setting for 3DGS. By closing the loop between scientific reasoning, executable experimentation, and evidence-backed communication, SplatLab compresses months of researcher effort into days of mostly autonomous compute.
作者备注：Accepted at NeurIPS 2026. 14 pages, 4 figures. Project page: https://seemandhar.github.io/splatlab
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SplatLab: Autonomous Scientific Discovery for 3DGS Research
Scientific discovery requires more than generating hypotheses: ideas must be grounded in prior work, translated into executable methods, experimentally validated, challenged by counterevidence, and communicated through reproducible findings. Despite recent advances in autonomous research agents, closing this entire loop remains challenging in rapidly evolving computer-vision fields with complex training pipelines and expensive evaluations. We introduce SplatLab, an autonomous scientific discovery system for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that integrates literature understanding, hypothesis generation, implementation, experimental refinement, falsification, and manuscript writing into a unified research pipeline. Given a research prompt, a target-paper URL, or no input at all, SplatLab identifies research opportunities, proposes novel methods, trains and ablates candidates across Mip-NeRF 360 and LLFF, and produces manuscripts grounded in verifiable experimental evidence. Unlike prior systems, SplatLab performs discovery over verified baseline implementations using domain-aligned modification scaffolds. A cascade-weighted Elo tournament evolves candidate methods using measured GPU performance and verbal-gradient feedback, while a standing falsifier incorporates adversarial stress testing directly into selection. An integrity audit binds reported claims to logged experiments, and reviewer-driven feedback can initiate further experimentation rather than merely revising text. SplatLab discovers methods achieving PSNR improvements of +0.18 to +3.78 dB over matched baselines, including +3.78 dB on astrophotographic nebula rendering, a previously unexplored setting for 3DGS. By closing the loop between scientific reasoning, executable experimentation, and evidence-backed communication, SplatLab compresses months of researcher effort into days of mostly autonomous compute.
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SplatLab: Autonomous Scientific Discovery for 3DGS Research
Reproducing a published 3DGS paper takes weeks of expert engineering before any extension can be proposed. Prior autonomous-research systems read papers, draft hypotheses, and write code, but are limited by short fixed templates, low executability, and weak traceability, and none has been demonstrated end-to-end in a live computer-vision subfield with intense activity. SplatLab is an autonomous research system for 3D Gaussian Splatting that addresses these limitations. Given a research prompt, a target-paper URL, or no input at all, it reproduces a published baseline, proposes an extension, trains and ablates across Mip-NeRF 360 and LLFF, writes the manuscript, and binds every reported number to a logged training run. Five design choices distinguish it: (i) candidates mutate plugins from a verified-reproduction backbone matched to published baselines; (ii) a cascade-weighted Elo tournament across eight islands scores candidates on measured GPU PSNR with verbal-gradient feedback; (iii) a standing falsifier subtracts Elo on failure, integrating stress-test survival into selection; (iv) every reported number is bound to a logged training run, and the run cannot terminate while any claim is unbacked; (v) a seven-category 3DGS taxonomy wraps EVOLVE-BLOCK markers in domain-aligned scaffolds transferable across 3DGS repositories. On PSNR-targeted runs, SplatLab's manuscripts beat their reproduced targets by +0.18 to +3.78 dB, including +3.78 dB on astrophotographic nebula rendering, for which no prior 3DGS method exists. The research cycle compresses from months of graduate-student time to days of mostly autonomous compute. Code, all manuscripts, experiment ledgers, and the cross-run paper store are available on the project page.
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