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Abstract - KISS - Knowledge Infrastructure for Scientific Simulation: A Scaffolding for Agentic Earth Science
Process-based simulation models encode decades of scientific understanding across the Earth sciences, yet the communities most exposed to climate risk and resource scarcity are the least able to use them. Here, we introduce knowledge infrastructure (KI), an agent-actionable scaffold that externalizes expertise into validated modelling operators, staged domain protocols, and diagnostic recovery mechanisms. Across a 3,000-trial coupled-hydrology benchmark, agents equipped with KI produced physically plausible, verifiable end-to-end simulations in up to 84% of trials, while agents without KI plateaued below 40%. KI generalizes across disciplines. We packaged its construction into a Knowledge Dissection Toolkit (KDT) that autonomously produced KI enabling end-to-end agent execution of 117 additional process-based models across 14 Earth-science domains. Across all 119 KIs, modelling decisions and failure remedies converged despite different underlying physics, showing that operational expertise is structured and extractable rather than ad hoc. Demonstrations show KI-equipped agents lowering both the access barrier between non-specialist users and process-based simulation, and the integration barrier between modelling communities. Through this scaffold, process-based science can then evolve as a living scientific commons, answerable to whoever needs to know and extendable by whoever can contribute.
KISS——面向科学仿真的知识基础设施:一种支持智能体地球科学计算的脚手架 /
KISS - Knowledge Infrastructure for Scientific Simulation: A Scaffolding for Agentic Earth Science
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文提出了一种名为“知识基础设施”(KI)的结构化方法,它能将地球科学研究中积累的专业建模知识和操作经验转化为智能体可以直接使用的标准化模板和故障恢复机制,从而让非专业用户也能可靠地运行复杂仿真模型,实验证明该方法可将智能体成功完成模拟任务的成功率从40%以下提升至84%,并能推广到14个地球科学领域的上百个模型中。