CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "nullius: a reproducible audit of a claim of autonomous scientific discovery"
message: "If you use this audit, please cite both this repository and the manuscript."
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Zhengjie
    family-names: Wang
    email: wangzhengjie@sii.edu.cn
    affiliation: Shanghai Innovation Institute
repository-code: "https://github.com/SII-WANGZJ/Nullius"
license: MIT
version: 0.2.0
abstract: >-
  Re-runs the analysis released with arXiv:2604.27092 unmodified, reproducing
  the released benchmark accuracies to within 5e-4, then changes one documented
  assumption at a time. Reports that both experiments carrying the paper's
  computational conclusion are scored under sample-level splits placing
  repeated measurements of the same physical pair in training and test, and
  that under pair-respecting evaluation, an exact permutation null, a self-pair
  ablation and a mirror-pair grouping, the released evaluations do not
  distinguish a relation-specific signal from pair identity together with
  structural cues in the label design.
references:
  - type: article
    title: "End-to-end autonomous scientific discovery on a real optical platform"
    authors:
      - family-names: Yang
        given-names: Shuxing
    year: 2026
    identifiers:
      - type: other
        value: "arXiv:2604.27092"
  - type: data
    title: "Source materials for End-to-end autonomous scientific discovery"
    authors:
      - family-names: Yang
        given-names: Shuxing
    year: 2026
    doi: "10.5281/zenodo.19890402"