arXiv AI

SciVisAgentSkills: Design and Evaluation of Agent Skills for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization

arXiv:2606. 05525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in agentic visualization have enabled the translation of natural language into executable scientific visualization (SciVis) workflows.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents

arXiv:2603. 29139v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agentic systems to translate natural-language intent into executable scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks.

By Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 4

SciDER: Scientific Data-centric End-to-end Researcher

arXiv:2603. 01421v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While large language models accelerate scientific discovery, existing agents face severe limitations in adaptability, domain generalization, and multimodal scalability, often struggling to autonomously process raw, domain-specific experimental data.

By Ke Lin, Owais Aijaz, Yilin Lu, Yiyang Luo, Xuehang Guo, Preslav Nakov
arXiv AI
3d ago

OSWorld-Science: A Benchmark of Computer Use Agents for Learning and Using Scientific Software

OSWorld-Science is a benchmark and evaluation environment for computer-using agents that use visual language models (VLMs) to perform scientific software tasks. It includes 12 VLMs and 146 high-quality tasks across domains such as molecular drawing, pathology image analysis, statistical computing, and physical simulation, with artifact-based evaluation and a harness that logs interactions and supports model comparison. The benchmark was developed through expert proposals and iterative human–AI co‑design, and results show that current VLMs still struggle with key scientific questions, offering insights into factors like language, reasoning, and context length.

By Dingyuan Dai, Heli Qi, Lei Liu, Yinxi Li, Baiding Chen, Zijun Dou, Qingcheng Zeng, Qi Kang, Oliver Sun, Eric Wang, Bo Zhou, Haixin Wang, Yufan Du, Shi Bo, Ruihan Lin, Mengqi Yuan, Dunjie Lu, Steven Dillmann, Yiming Shi, Tina Su, Amy Xin, Minghao Liu, Xi Wang, Xu Huang, Ge Zhang, Pengyu Nie, Zhen Yang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, Weihao Xuan, Tianyu Liu
arXiv AI
4d ago

MatToolBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents in Real-World Materials Science Workflows

MatToolBench is a new benchmark that evaluates multimodal GUI agents on professional materials science software. It contains 204 tasks across 10 tools in three modalities—GUI operation, OriginPro scripting, and code-based database queries—executed inside a Windows 11 VM. The benchmark offers fine-grained, expert-decomposed scoring and a high-performing multimodal judge for aesthetic assessment, revealing that strong general benchmark performance does not transfer to scientific workflows.

By Mei Wu, Rui Xie, Runyu Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Tianfan Fu, Bo Chen, Kai Yu, Xin Chen, Lu Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 12

Benchmarking AI Agents for Addressing Scientific Challenges Across Scales

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.

By Tianyu Liu, Allen Xin Wang, Antonia Panescu, Lisa Xinyi Chen, Wenxin Long, Xinyu Wei, Yueqian Jing, Ziyao Zeng, Jihang Chen, Sihan Jiang, Ziqing Wang, Siyi Gu, Siyu Chen, Xinyang Hu, Haoran Shao, Leqi Xu, Wangjie Zheng, Zhiyuan Cao, Ada Fang, Botao Yu, Kunyang Sun, Rex Ying, Arman Cohan, Qingyu Chen, Lingzhou Xue, Kaize Ding, Yuanqi Du, Wengong Jin, Zhuoran Yang, Marinka Zitnik, James Zou, Hua Xu, Hongyu Zhao
arXiv AI
Aug 12

DSAgentBench: Can Agents Automate End-to-End Data-Science Workflows in Real Computer Environments?

arXiv:2608. 10366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world data science involves long-horizon workflows that span data wrangling, exploration, modeling, visualization, and validation, and require coordinated use of tools such as notebooks, IDEs, terminals, browsers, and databases within real operating environments.

By Mizanur Rahman, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque Prince
arXiv AI
Aug 21

Scientific Data Skills: Enabling Agent-Ready Scientific Data Services at Scale

arXiv:2608. 19625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific data are increasingly used by AI agents, yet existing dataset representations provide limited support for autonomous discovery, interpretation, and invocation.

By Xiaohan Huang, Qingqing Long, Xiaolei Du, Siyu Pu, Jiawen Xu, Haotian Chen, Chenyang Zhao, Jinbiao Liu, Xuezhi Wang, Hao Wang, Hengshu Zhu, Yuanchun Zhou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 20

Scientific Data Skills: Enabling Agent-Ready Scientific Data Services at Scale

The paper introduces the Scientific Data Skill (SciDSK), an agent‑ready representation that packages dataset‑specific knowledge and operational guidance as a reusable skill. SciDSK integrates dataset descriptions, scientific context, file organization, usage procedures, quality checks, and provenance information while keeping the data in its original repository. The authors define a structured specification, build a construction pipeline, and launch the Scientific Data Skill Bank to publish SciDSK resources across six scientific disciplines, demonstrating improved agent‑driven dataset discovery and interpretation through evaluation benchmarks.