
# USER:

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│  > You are a senior algorithm researcher. Please read insight.txt, which is a research paper idea. │
│    Please explain the entire algorithm's workflow to me. Is it reasonable?                             │
│    Do the orthogonal components of COP come from the same topic? Or different topics and solutions in the pool?  │
│    How does CG-MCTS work? Please explain with a specific example.                          │
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# AGENT:

✦ Okay, I have carefully read the insight.txt file you provided. This is a highly forward-thinking idea that attempts to apply Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs) to stimulate and guide their creativity, ultimately generating high-quality solutions (such as code).

Below, I will analyze this algorithm from the perspective of a senior researcher and answer your questions.

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✦ 1. Overall algorithm workflow and rationality analysis

The core idea of this algorithm is to transform the process of LLM text generation from a simple, linear "continuation" task into a strategic task of intelligent search within a vast "semantic possibility space." Its workflow can be summarized in the following stages:

Stage One: Environment Preparation (Precomputation)
1. Define "Common Sense" Boundaries (Anchor Set): Collect a large number of core concepts in the field (such as "gene editing," "deep learning"), encode them into vectors using an LLM, and store them in a vector database (such as FAISS). This "anchor set" represents the recognized, reasonable knowledge points in the field.
2. Define "Known" Territory (Novelty Database): Collect massive existing literature (such as arXiv paper abstracts), similarly encode them into vectors, and store them in another vector database. This "novelty database" represents knowledge domains that have already been explored.

Stage Two: Determine Innovation Direction (Initialization)
1. Input a broad topic: For example, "nanomedicines for Alzheimer's disease."
2. Concept Orthogonal Projection (COP): This is one of the essences of the algorithm. Instead of directly using the input topic, it:
   * Decomposes the topic into "problem" (Alzheimer's disease) and "mechanism" (nanomedicines).
   * Calculates the orthogonal component of the "mechanism" vector relative to the "problem" vector. Mathematically, this orthogonal component represents the part of the "mechanism" that is least relevant and most "unexpected" with respect to the "problem."
   * Adds the "problem" vector to this orthogonal component with weights to obtain a "primitive innovation vector," which points to a novel but potentially impractical direction.
   * To bring the direction back to reality, finds the "common sense" vector closest to this innovation vector in the "anchor set" and performs linear interpolation. Finally obtains a target direction vector `v_target` that has both innovation and basic rationality. This vector serves as the "compass" for the entire search process.

Stage Three: Generation under MCTS Guidance (Core Loop)
1. Build search tree: The root node of the tree is the start token <BOS>, each node represents a token sequence, and each edge represents the choice of a new token.
2. Iterative search: Within a given "thinking budget" (number of iterations), repeat the four classic steps of MCTS:
   * Selection: Starting from the root node, use a special UCT formula (comprehensively considering the historical value, exploration value, and directional consistency with v_target of the node) to select an optimal path until an incompletely expanded leaf node. This formula ensures that the search will tend to branches that are more promising and better aligned with the innovation direction.
   * Expansion: At the selected leaf node, let the LLM predict the next most likely tokens and create new child nodes.
   * Simulation: Starting from a newly created child node, let the LLM quickly "continue writing" to the end, generating a complete idea fragment.
   * Evaluation & Backpropagation: Calculate a value score for this generated idea fragment. This score is composed of two parts weighted together:
     * Coherence: Judged by the LLM itself, that is, the fluency and logicality of the generated sequence (average log probability).
     * Novelty: Encode the idea fragment into a vector, search in the "novelty database," and the greater the distance to the most similar literature, the more novel it is.
   Finally, propagate this comprehensive value score back along the selected path to the root node, updating the visit count and cumulative value of all nodes on the path.

Stage Four: Output Final Result
1. When the "thinking budget" is exhausted, starting from the root node, at each step select the child node that has been visited most times (i.e., the path that MCTS considers most robust and valuable), and concatenate them into the final text output.

Rationality Assessment:

* Advantages:
  1. Framework innovation: Transforming the generation problem into a search problem cleverly balances "exploration" (novelty) and "exploitation" (coherence), which is more likely to produce unexpected, high-quality results than traditional decoding strategies (such as beam search).
  2. Mathematical interpretability: Defining the "innovation direction" through Concept Orthogonal Projection (COP) has strong mathematical intuition and operability, making the vague concept of "innovation" computable.
  3. Process controllability: The entire process is like a "chain of thought," but each step has undergone deliberate evaluation and selection, rather than aimless association. By adjusting hyperparameters (such as novelty weight, direction guidance weight), the style of generated results can be finely controlled.

* Potential challenges:
  1. Extremely high computational cost: Each MCTS simulation requires at least one LLM forward pass and multiple vector database queries. The cost of completing thousands of iterations is very expensive.
  2. High requirements for LLM capabilities: This method requires an LLM that can output high-quality hidden states, and this LLM itself must have strong logical reasoning and language modeling capabilities to ensure the effectiveness of the "coherence" evaluation.
  3. Hyperparameter sensitivity: There are multiple weight hyperparameters in the algorithm (α, β, w_dir, w_coh, w_nov, etc.). Setting these parameters to achieve optimal effects requires extensive experimentation and tuning.

Conclusion: Theoretically, this algorithm is highly rational and extremely innovative. It provides a solid and elegant mathematical framework for guiding LLMs to conduct controllable, creative thinking. Although it faces challenges in engineering implementation regarding cost and tuning, its ideas have important inspirational significance for future AIGC (especially in fields like scientific discovery and artistic creation).

2. Origin of COP's orthogonal component

According to the file description, the orthogonal component of COP does not come from the same topic, but from the combination of two different concepts: "problem" and "potential mechanism."

Specifically:
* The system first decomposes a broad topic (such as "AI methods for treating cancer") into two sets: problem set (such as "tumor heterogeneity," "drug resistance") and mechanism set (such as "graph neural networks," "reinforcement learning").
* Then, it selects one element from each set, for example P_i (problem: drug resistance) and M_j (mechanism: reinforcement learning).
* It calculates the orthogonal component of v_Mj (reinforcement learning vector) on v_Pi (drug resistance vector). This orthogonal component represents the part of the "reinforcement learning" concept that is least relevant and most independent with respect to the specific problem of "drug resistance."
* The purpose of this is that if we directly add the two concept vectors, the result is likely to be a conventional, known combination. By introducing the orthogonal component, we force the model to focus on the unusual, unexplored characteristics of the "mechanism" that have not yet been connected to this "problem," thus "creating" a new perspective.

Therefore, the origin of the orthogonal component is the vector operation of different concepts (one problem, one mechanism) from the pool, with the purpose of discovering "non-mainstream" association methods between these two concepts.

3. Specific example of CG-MCTS operation

Suppose our task is to come up with new methods for "improving solar cell efficiency."

Component Pool (simplified):
* Problem Pool: {P1: "Material aging", P2: "Incomplete spectral absorption"}
* Mechanism Pool: {M1: "Quantum dot technology", M2: "Perovskite materials", M3: "Machine learning optimization"}

CG-MCTS operation steps:

1. Initialization (Determine direction):
   * The algorithm selects a pair of concepts, for example P2: "Incomplete spectral absorption" and M3: "Machine learning optimization."
   * It calculates the orthogonal component of v_M3 relative to v_P2, which represents the part of "machine learning" that is least related to "spectral" (possibly pointing to aspects such as production process control, circuit design, etc.).
   * Through the COP formula, it synthesizes a target direction v_target, which roughly points to "using a novel machine learning approach to solve the spectral absorption problem."

2. MCTS First iteration:
   * Selection: The tree only has a root node, so it directly proceeds to expansion.
   * Expansion: The LLM gives the most likely starting words, such as "To," "A," "The." Three child nodes are created.
   * Simulation: Suppose "A" node is selected. Starting from "A," the LLM quickly generates a sentence: "A novel method using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to design new surface textures for light trapping."
   * Evaluation:
     * Coherence: The LLM judges that this sentence is logically coherent and has high probability, obtaining V_coherence = 0.8.
     * Novelty: Searching in the literature database, it finds few papers about GANs used for surface texture design, with a large distance, obtaining V_novelty = 0.9.
     * Total value: V = w_coh * 0.8 + w_nov * 0.9 = 0.85 (assuming weights are both 1).
   * Backpropagation: Propagate the value 0.85 back to the "A" node and the root node. Now the root node has been visited 1 time with value 0.85; the "A" node has been visited 1 time with value 0.85.

3. MCTS Second iteration:
   * Selection: Back to the root node, the UCT formula will prompt the algorithm to explore the unvisited "To" or "The" nodes. Suppose "The" node is selected.
   * Expansion & Simulation: Starting from "The," the LLM generates another sentence: "The application of perovskite materials combined with quantum dots..."
   * Evaluation:
     * Coherence: V_coherence = 0.9 (this is a classic combination).
     * Novelty: There are many similar studies in the literature database, with close distance, V_novelty = 0.2.
     * Total value: V = 0.9 + 0.2 = 0.55 (assuming weights are both 1).
   * Backpropagation: Propagate the value 0.55 back to the "The" node and the root node. Now the root node has been visited 2 times with total value 0.85+0.55=1.4.

4. Subsequent iterations:
   * The algorithm will find that the path starting from the "A" node (GAN design surface texture) seems more promising (higher value).
   * Therefore, subsequent "selection" steps will more frequently enter the branches under the "A" node, deeply exploring details such as "how to use GANs to design," "what specific texture," etc.
   * At the same time, v_target will continuously guide the entire search process, ensuring that even when exploring in depth, it will not deviate from the general direction of "using machine learning to solve spectral problems."

5. Final output:
   * After thousands of iterations, the algorithm finds that the most visited path is "A" -> "novel" -> "method" -> "using" -> "generative" -> ...
   * Finally, it will concatenate this most trusted path and output a complete, well-considered scientific concept: "A novel method using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to design and optimize the nanostructure of a solar cell's surface, creating a fractal texture that maximizes light trapping across a broader spectrum."

# USER:

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│  > Please help me implement this algorithm on Qwen3. The example code for Qwen3 is in code/inference.py.    │
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# AGENT:

✦ Okay, I have analyzed inference.py. It demonstrates how to load the Qwen model and perform basic text generation, but to implement CG-MCTS, we need more low-level operations, particularly obtaining hidden states to create vector representations.

  inference.py uses model.generate(), which is a high-level helper function. To obtain hidden states, we need to directly call model() and set output_hidden_states=True.

  I will create a new file named code/cg_mcts_qwen.py
  for you, which contains a complete, runnable implementation of the CG-MCTS algorithm. This script will be quite long as it includes all the logic from the model interface, vector database, MCTS nodes, to the main search loop.

  Before running this script, please ensure you have installed the necessary libraries:
  pip install transformers torch numpy faiss-cpu
  (If you have a compatible GPU, you can install faiss-gpu for better performance)

  Key implementation points:
   1. `LLMInterface` class: A wrapper that encapsulates the Qwen model, responsible for loading the model, extracting vectors, and performing other low-level operations such as getting the probability of the next token.
   2. `MCTSNode` class: Represents a node in the search tree.
   3. `CG_MCTS` class: Implements the core MCTS cycle (selection, expansion, simulation, backpropagation) as described in insight.txt.
   4. Main execution module: An if __name__ == "__main__": block that ties all components together, runs the entire process with some sample data, and ultimately outputs the conception.

  I will now write the code/cg_mcts_qwen.py file. Please note that the first run will be slow due to model downloading and extensive computations.


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 │    File path must be absolute: code/cg_mcts_qwen.py                                                                                                                              │
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  I will now write the file code/cg_mcts_qwen.py. This comprehensive script will implement the entire CG-MCTS algorithm using the Qwen model, including model interaction, vector
  database management, and the main search loop.

✦ Ah, my apologies. The tool requires an absolute path. I will correct that and write the file to the proper location.


# USER:
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# Agent
  I will now write the file to ${PWD}/code/cg_mcts_qwen.py.

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 │    ... first 203 lines hidden ...                                                                                                                                      │
 │    204             node.Q += value                                                                                                                                     │
 │    205             node = node.parent                                                                                                                                  │
 │    206                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    207     def search(self):                                                                                                                                           │
 │    208         """Run the main MCTS loop."""                                                                                                                           │
 │    209         for i in range(self.config.NUM_ITERATIONS):                                                                                                             │
 │    210             print(f"--- Iteration {i+1}/{self.config.NUM_ITERATIONS} ---")                                                                                      │
 │    211             # 1. Selection                                                                                                                                      │
 │    212             leaf_node = self.select(self.root)                                                                                                                  │
 │    213             print(f"  Select: ...{leaf_node.text_sequence[-30:]}")                                                                                              │
 │    214                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    215             # 2. Expansion                                                                                                                                      │
 │    216             if leaf_node.N > 0:                                                                                                                                 │
 │    217                 leaf_node = self.expand(leaf_node)                                                                                                              │
 │    218                 print(f"  Expand: -> ...{leaf_node.text_sequence[-30:]}")                                                                                       │
 │    219                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    220             # 3. Simulation & Evaluation                                                                                                                        │
 │    221             print("  Simulate & Evaluate...")                                                                                                                   │
 │    222             value = self.simulate_and_evaluate(leaf_node)                                                                                                       │
 │    223             print(f"  Value: {value:.4f}")                                                                                                                      │
 │    224                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    225             # 4. Backpropagation                                                                                                                                │
 │    226             print("  Backpropagate...")                                                                                                                         │
 │    227             self.backpropagate(leaf_node, value)                                                                                                                │
 │    228             print("-" * (20 + 5))                                                                                                                               │
 │    229                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    230                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    231     def get_best_sequence(self, max_len=100):                                                                                                                   │
 │    232         """Get the best sequence by choosing the most visited nodes."""                                                                                         │
 │    233         node = self.root                                                                                                                                        │
 │    234         sequence = node.text_sequence                                                                                                                           │
 │    235         while not node.is_leaf() and len(self.llm.tokenizer.encode(sequence)) < max_len:                                                                        │
 │    236             best_child = max(node.children, key=lambda n: n.N)                                                                                                  │
 │    237             node = best_child                                                                                                                                   │
 │    238         return node.text_sequence                                                                                                                               │
 │    239                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    240 # --- 4. Helper Functions ---                                                                                                                                   │
 │    241 def build_faiss_index(texts: list, llm_interface: LLMInterface):                                                                                                │
 │    242     """Builds a FAISS index from a list of texts."""                                                                                                            │
 │    243     print(f"Building FAISS index for {len(texts)} texts...")                                                                                                    │
 │    244     vectors = [llm_interface.extract_vector(text) for text in texts]                                                                                            │
 │    245     vectors = np.array(vectors).astype('float32')                                                                                                               │
 │    246     dimension = vectors.shape[1]                                                                                                                                │
 │    247     index = faiss.IndexFlatL2(dimension)                                                                                                                        │
 │    248     index.add(vectors)                                                                                                                                          │
 │    249     print("FAISS index built.")                                                                                                                                 │
 │    250     return index                                                                                                                                                │
 │    251                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    252 def calculate_target_vector(problem: str, mechanism: str, anchor_db: faiss.Index, llm: LLMInterface, config: Config):                                           │
 │    253     """Implements Concept Orthogonal Projection (COP)."""                                                                                                       │
 │    254     print("Calculating target vector using COP...")                                                                                                             │
 │    255     v_problem = llm.extract_vector(problem)                                                                                                                     │
 │    256     v_mechanism = llm.extract_vector(mechanism)                                                                                                                 │
 │    257                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    258     # Project v_mechanism onto v_problem                                                                                                                        │
 │    259     proj_on_problem = (np.dot(v_mechanism, v_problem) / np.dot(v_problem, v_problem)) * v_problem                                                               │
 │    260     # Get the orthogonal component                                                                                                                              │
 │    261     v_ortho = v_mechanism - proj_on_problem                                                                                                                     │
 │    262                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    263     # v_raw_new = v_problem + alpha * v_ortho                                                                                                                   │
 │    264     v_raw_new = v_problem + config.ALPHA * v_ortho                                                                                                              │
 │    265     v_raw_new = v_raw_new.astype('float32').reshape(1, -1)                                                                                                      │
 │    266                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    267     # Find nearest anchor                                                                                                                                       │
 │    268     _, indices = anchor_db.search(v_raw_new, 1)                                                                                                                 │
 │    269     v_anchor = anchor_db.reconstruct(indices[0][0])                                                                                                             │
 │    270                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    271     # v_target = (1-beta)*v_raw_new + beta*v_anchor                                                                                                             │
 │    272     v_target = (1 - config.BETA) * v_raw_new.flatten() + config.BETA * v_anchor                                                                                 │
 │    273     print("Target vector calculated.")                                                                                                                          │
 │    274     return v_target                                                                                                                                             │
 │    275                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    276 # --- 5. Main Execution ---                                                                                                                                     │
 │    277 if __name__ == "__main__":                                                                                                                                      │
 │    278     cfg = Config()                                                                                                                                              │
 │    279     llm_interface = LLMInterface(cfg.MODEL_NAME, cfg.DEVICE)                                                                                                    │
 │    280                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    281     # --- Step 1: Prepare Databases (using dummy data) ---                                                                                                      │
 │    282     # In a real scenario, these would be large datasets.                                                                                                        │
 │    283     anchor_concepts = [                                                                                                                                         │
 │    284         "Machine learning", "Deep learning", "Genomics", "CRISPR",                                                                                              │
 │    285         "Quantum computing", "Drug discovery", "Protein folding"                                                                                                │
 │    286     ]                                                                                                                                                           │
 │    287     novelty_documents = [                                                                                                                                       │
 │    288         "AlphaFold is a deep learning system that predicts protein structures.",                                                                                │
 │    289         "CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene-editing tool that allows for precise modification of DNA.",                                                                      │
 │    290         "BERT is a transformer-based model for natural language processing.",                                                                                   │
 │    291         "Reinforcement learning has been used to master games like Go and Chess."                                                                               │
 │    292     ]                                                                                                                                                           │
 │    293                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    294     anchor_db = build_faiss_index(anchor_concepts, llm_interface)                                                                                               │
 │    295     novelty_db = build_faiss_index(novelty_documents, llm_interface)                                                                                            │
 │    296                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    297     # --- Step 2: Define Problem and Calculate Target Vector ---                                                                                                │
 │    298     problem_concept = "Discovering new materials for batteries"                                                                                                 │
 │    299     mechanism_concept = "Using generative adversarial networks (GANs)"                                                                                          │
 │    300                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    301     v_target = calculate_target_vector(                                                                                                                         │
 │    302         problem=problem_concept,                                                                                                                                │
 │    303         mechanism=mechanism_concept,                                                                                                                            │
 │    304         anchor_db=anchor_db,                                                                                                                                    │
 │    305         llm=llm_interface,                                                                                                                                      │
 │    306         config=cfg                                                                                                                                              │
 │    307     )                                                                                                                                                           │
 │    308                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    309     # --- Step 3: Run CG-MCTS ---                                                                                                                               │
 │    310     print("\n" + "="*20 + " Starting CG-MCTS Search " + "="*20)                                                                                                 │
 │    311     mcts = CG_MCTS(llm_interface, v_target, novelty_db, cfg)                                                                                                    │
 │    312                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    313     # Add the initial prompt to the root node                                                                                                                   │
 │    314     initial_prompt = f"My goal is to find a novel scientific idea for '{problem_concept}' inspired by '{mechanism_concept}'. Please begin generating a          │
 │        concept.\nIdea:"                                                                                                                                                │
 │    315     mcts.root.text_sequence += initial_prompt                                                                                                                   │
 │    316                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    317     start_time = time.time()                                                                                                                                    │
 │    318     mcts.search()                                                                                                                                               │
 │    319     end_time = time.time()                                                                                                                                      │
 │    320     print(f"Search completed in {end_time - start_time:.2f} seconds.")                                                                                          │
 │    321                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    322     # --- Step 4: Get Final Result ---                                                                                                                          │
 │    323     final_idea = mcts.get_best_sequence(max_len=200)                                                                                                            │
 │    324                                                                                                                                                                 │
 │    325     print("\n" + "="*20 + " Final Generated Idea " + "="*20)                                                                                                    │
 │    326     # Clean up the output                                                                                                                                       │
 │    327     final_idea_cleaned = final_idea.replace("<|im_start|>user\n", "").replace(initial_prompt, "")                                                               │
 │    328     print(final_idea)                                                                                                                                           │
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 │    1   import torch                                                                                                                                                    │
 │    2   import numpy as np                                                                                                                                              │
 │    3   import faiss                                                                                                                                                    │
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✦ OK, the file code/cg_mcts_qwen.py has been successfully created.

I will now execute this script.

Please note:
 1. Model download: The script will first download the Qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct model from Hugging Face, which requires approximately 15GB of disk space and may take some time depending on your network conditions.
 2. Computationally intensive: The entire process (especially the MCTS search) is highly demanding on CPU and memory (if using CPU) or GPU.
 3. Runtime: With default settings (30 iterations), it may take a long time on CPU but will be much faster on GPU.

I will execute the following command to run the script. The script will print the progress of each step in real time, including model loading, database construction, and each iteration of MCTS.

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