Discovery Science: 29th International Conference, DS 2026, Mainz, Germany, October 5–9, 2026, Proceedings

The DS 2026 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2026, which took place in Mainz, Germany, during October 5-9 2026. The 52 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Explainable AI; Hypothesis Generation and Causal Discovery; Language Models and Automated Scientific Discovery; Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Agentic AI; Physics-Informed Machine Learning; Computational Equation Discovery and Symbolic Regression; Benchmarking Methodologies; Continual; Transfer and Meta-Learning; Machine Learning: Representation Learning; Clustering and Model Design and Machine Learning Applications.