arXiv AI

Read the Paper, Write the Code: Agentic Reproduction of Social-Science Results

arXiv AI
Sep 3

Can Coding Agents Reproduce Findings in Computational Materials Science?

The paper introduces AutoMat, a benchmark designed to test large language model (LLM) coding agents on their ability to reproduce claims from computational materials science. AutoMat presents three challenges: reconstructing underspecified procedures, navigating specialized toolchains, and assessing whether the evidence supports a claim. Experiments show that current LLM agents achieve low success rates, with the best setting reaching only 53%, and failures stem mainly from incomplete procedures, methodological deviations, and execution fragility.

By Ziyang Huang, Yi Cao, Ali K. Shargh, Jing Luo, Ruidong Mei, Mohd Zaki, Zhan Liu, Wyatt Bunstine, William Jurayj, Somdatta Goswami, Tyrel McQueen, Michael Shields, Jaafar El-Awady, Paulette Clancy, Benjamin Van Durme, Nicholas Andrews, William Walden, Daniel Khashabi
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Prompt-to-Paper: Agentic AI System for Bioinformatics

arXiv:2607. 05456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While recent advances in large language models have enabled end-to-end automated manuscript generation, existing systems suffer from three critical deficiencies: (i) generated claims are not deterministically grounded in verifiable literature, (ii) experimental results are frequently fabricated rather than executed, and (iii) there exists no standardized, multi-dimensional framework to assess whether AI-generated manuscripts meet the quality and rigor required for real-world publication.

By Ramsha Kamran, Maheera Amjad, Zartasha Mustansar, Arsalan Shaukat, Salma Sherbaz, Muhammad U. S. Khan
arXiv AI
Sep 25

RECLAIM: Can Agents Reproduce the Claims of Machine Learning Papers?

RECLAIM is a benchmark that tests whether AI agents can reproduce results from 100 NeurIPS 2025 papers, with each paper pre‑defined with a target result, success criteria, and GPU‑hour budget. Papers are categorized into three difficulty tiers—Run, Retrain, and Reimplement—based on the availability of code, data, and weights. In experiments, the best agent succeeded on only 41% of Run‑tier papers, 27% of Retrain‑tier, and 15% of Reimplement‑tier, often stopping early with unused budget and frequently making errors such as writing code without verifying against the paper’s numbers.

By Mithil Salunkhe, Haochen Ding, Samridhi Verma, Volodymyr Kindratenko
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

arXiv:2607. 27191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research.

By Peter Kirgis, Sayash Kapoor, Andrew Schwartz, Stephan Rabanser, David Africa, Konstantinos Voudouris, Viet Nguyen, Toby Pilditch, Magda Dubois, Harry Coppock, Cozmin Ududec, Nitya Nadgir, Matilda Orona, Tilman Bayer, Derrick Chan-Sew, Yue Ling, Abhishek Shetty, Helen Toner, Gillian Hadfield, Seth Lazar, Steve Newman, Shoshannah Tekofsky, Rishi Bommasani, Arvind Narayanan