Abstract
The search for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is generally limited not by the supply of theory descriptions but by the lack of discriminating experimental observations. A case in point is dark matter, where the overwhelming gravitational evidence only goes so far in distinguishing between models within a vast theory space. Exploring the space of testable model signatures may help identify overlooked experimental observables and indicate the utility of future experiments. A challenge is designing a search through model signatures outside what is found in the literature. Our primary contribution is hAIthem, a framework that combines the self-guided exploration of reinforcement learning (RL) with the broad literature-derived knowledge of LLMs. We build an RL agent that learns to find which portions of a theory's high-dimensional parameter space are not excluded under some subset of constraints by playing a Battleship-style "game" against a suite of phenomenology tools. The agent is built as a Large Lagrangian Model (LLaM), an autoregressive transformer that reads a tokenized Lagrangian, is pretrained at scale (here on ~1 billion tokens from ~10,000 Lagrangians), and is fine-tuned in a live environment. The framework then constructs a decision tree that separates RL-found regions using observables computed with established tools, and passes the remaining degenerate regions to a set of LLM agents that compete to produce realistic signatures. In this proof of concept, RL-search outperforms an evolutionary-algorithm baseline, finding more viable regions with greater physical diversity. In a restricted space of single dark scalar multiplet models, we find that hAIthem proposes interesting combinations of previously studied observables, such as the application of a halo-independent kinematic ratio to paleo-detectors.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38309
