ST-Bench is a new benchmark that tests whether multi‑agent systems (MAS) outperform single agents on complex scientific data analysis tasks. It includes 100 Earth‑science data‑science tasks expanded into 2,067 queries, validated by domain experts. Evaluations show that most MAS configurations beat the cheapest single‑agent baseline, with the best reaching nearly three times its score, though at higher inference cost.
arXiv:2606. 12821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental scientists spend disproportionate effort on data wrangling rather than analysis, and AI agents that automate geospatial workflows remain unvalidated: no benchmark evaluates agents operating through structured tool calling against real APIs.
arXiv:2602. 02905v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate scientific discovery end-to-end, but rigorously evaluating their capacity for verifiable discovery remains a central challenge.
arXiv:2608.23525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth-system analysis reconstructs changing physical processes from observations that differ in source, scale, timing, and modality. Natural hazards ma...
arXiv:2409. 11363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents have the potential to aid users on a variety of consequential tasks, including conducting scientific research.
arXiv:2609.07611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific ideation is the capacity to formulate novel and testable hypotheses from scientific evidence, and autonomous AI scientists depend on it. Exi...
Geographic Information System (GIS) professionals rely on multi-step spatial analysis workflows to support decision-making in urban planning, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. The process is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone.
arXiv:2606. 13148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climate and environmental decision-making increasingly requires reasoning across heterogeneous inputs, including gridded physical data, satellite imagery, geospatial context, and simulator outputs.
arXiv:2609.12533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world Earth observation (EO) agents must translate high-level scientific questions into executable workflows to acquire observations, prepare da...
arXiv:2607. 00436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly connected to scientific software, yet it remains unclear when tool access makes scientific computation more reliable rather than merely more complex.
arXiv:2606. 12736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly being developed to accelerate scientific discovery, yet their practical capabilities in real research settings remain poorly understood.
arXiv:2608.28590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown promise for automating data-science workflows, yet their end-to-end performance depends critically on the...
arXiv:2607. 02387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: NASA and its data centers hold thousands of geoscience datasets and tools like Worldview, Giovanni, the Science Discovery Engine, and Harmony.