arXiv Machine Learning

FrontierCS 2: A Benchmark for Computer Science R&D

FrontierCS 2 is a new benchmark comprising 48 open‑ended computer‑science research tasks that place language‑model agents inside a research environment, allowing them to submit incremental patches to a working repository. Each patch is scored by a judge on a development suite, while the final evaluation uses a held‑out suite and a private reference derived from the original authors’ code. The benchmark covers 13 domains, includes a private set of over 100 future tasks, and evaluates 12 agents, with Claude Opus 5.5 achieving the highest pass rate of 58%.

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 26

SCI-AGENT-EXAM: Benchmarking Agents on Scientific Research Tasks

arXiv:2610.32441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly capable of supporting scientific workflows, but their capabilities across diverse research activitie...

By Tianyun Zhong, Wei Wang, Jialin Li, Jianhong Tu, Liyao Li, Chuqiao Kuang, Tianshi Zheng, Songchi Zhou, Weiqi Zhai, Qile Jin, Jiajia Li, Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Shiwei Ye, Bing Zhao, Hu Wei, Lin Qu, Xianpei Han
arXiv AI
Sep 7

$\tau^\tau$-Bench: An Environment for End-To-End, Realistic Agent Construction

The paper introduces $ au^ au$-Bench, a benchmark that turns the construction of AI agents into a measurable task. In this environment a developer agent receives real business records, client requirements, a production API, an existing codebase, and constraints on cost and models, and must deliver a complete customer‑service agent. The benchmark evaluates performance by deploying the agent against simulated users, revealing that current state‑of‑the‑art models achieve only 23.9% success while an expert‑written reference scores 82.2%.

By Quan Shi, Keshav Dhandhania, Karthik Narasimhan, Victor Barres
arXiv AI
Jun 9

SWE-Marathon: Can Agents Autonomously Complete Ultra-Long-Horizon Software Work?

arXiv:2606. 07682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly expected to complete long-horizon workflows that require sustained progress over hours, millions of tokens, and complex environments.

By Rishi Desai, Jesse Hu, Joan Cabezas, Neel Harsola, Pratyush Shukla, Roey Ben Chaim, Adnan El Assadi, Omkaar Mukund Kamath, Fenil Faldu, Prannay Hebbar, Jiankai Sun, Yiyuan Li, Pramod Srinivasan, Ishan Gupta, Christopher Settles, Daniel Wang, Derek Chen, Pranav Raja, Albert Liu, Marek \v{S}uppa, Nevasini Sasikumar, Luyang Kong, Erik Quintanilla, Xiangyi Li, Ivan Bercovich, Steven Dillmann
arXiv AI
Oct 28

InfraDev: Can Coding Agents Develop AI Infrastructure, and How Can We Tell?

InfraDev is a new benchmark comprising 36 tasks derived from real-world pull requests to Megatron‑LM, vLLM, and verl, designed to test coding agents on infrastructure development for training, inference, and reinforcement learning across many GPUs. Each task requires agents to reimplement multi‑file changes and run correctly, with grading that includes hidden probes and a prompt exposing only the interfaces used. The benchmark reveals that current frontier models resolve only about 39% of tasks, with probes rejecting a third of submissions that pass official tests, and that structural and state errors dominate failures.

By Yangshen Deng, Jiaqi Ruan, Yeqi Huang, Nick Lau, Guangming Sheng, Luo Mai
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0: Automating Diverse Task Construction and Measuring Sustained Agent Progress

arXiv:2610.14146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon terminal benchmarks measure whether an agent can sustain progress through extended workflows with process rewards, not only whether its fi...

By Zongxia Li, Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi, Ruhan Wang, Junyao Yang, Chengsong Huang, Zhichao Liu, Xiyang Wu, Anhao Li, Yue Yu, Ergan Shang, Fuxiao Liu, Tong Zheng, Ninghao Liu, Lichao Sun, Haitao Mi, Leowei Liang
arXiv AI
Oct 28

SWE-Skills-Bench: Do Agent Skills Actually Help in Real-World Software Engineering?

SWE-Skills-Bench is a benchmark that evaluates the impact of individual agent skills on real-world software engineering tasks. It uses 98 public skills paired with specific GitHub repositories, generating 3,920 paired evaluations across four agent-model configurations. The study finds that most skills are ineffective, with only a few providing modest gains while some are harmful, raising the overall pass ratio from 76.6% to 76.9%.

By Tingxu Han, Yi Zhang, Wei Song, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Youcheng Sun, Lijie Hu