Scientific datasets exhibit diverse characteristics, and lossy compressors expose numerous algorithmic parameters whose optimal settings vary substantially across datasets, applications, and user requirements. Manually identifying suitable compressors and configurations is time-consuming and often requires extensive domain and compression expertise. This project aims to develop an agentic system that automatically selects and configures lossy compression methods according to user-specified quantities of interest (QoIs). The system will characterize input data, explore candidate compressors and parameter settings, evaluate their effects on application-relevant QoI metrics, and iteratively refine its decisions to identify configurations that satisfy user-defined accuracy constraints while optimizing compression ratio, throughput, or other performance objectives. By integrating data analysis, automated experimentation, QoI evaluation, and adaptive decision-making into a unified workflow, the proposed system will make scientific lossy compression more accessible, efficient, and reliable across diverse datasets and applications.
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