EO-Agents: A Three-Agent LLM Pipeline for Earth Observation Hypothesis Generation

Researchers have developed EO-Agents, a breakthrough AI system that leverages large language models to automate Earth observation scientific hypothesis generation using NASA's knowledge graph.

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

Title:EO-Agents: A Three-Agent LLM Pipeline for Earth Observation Hypothesis Generation

Abstract:Large language models have recently been explored for scientific hypothesis generation, but most prior work relies on unstructured literature and free-form textual claims. We present a pipeline for Earth observation that grounds hypothesis generation directly in the NASA Earth Observation Knowledge Graph. A heterogeneous graph neural network trained on historical co-usage relations ranks candidate dataset pairings, and a three-agent LLM pipeline filters, generates, and evaluates structured research hypotheses. Applied to 1,475 NASA datasets, the system produces 160 hypotheses spanning multiple Earth-science domains, including ecohydrology, glaciology, aerosol--cloud interactions, vegetation phenology, and stratospheric chemistry. Model-predicted novel dataset pairings are rated nearly as plausible as held-out real co-usages from the literature, indicating that the pipeline surfaces scientifically coherent yet unexplored combinations. A 222 factorial experiment across GPT-5.2 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 shows that hypothesis rankings remain stable, while absolute scores depend strongly on judge identity, highlighting limitations of single-judge LLM evaluation.

Source: arXiv cs.AI Recent

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