arXiv AI

Assessing AI in Introductory Physics Problem Solving

arXiv:2607. 14303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning or inference-scaling models are the new generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of complex problem solving.

arXiv AI
5d ago

PhysMaster: Building an Autonomous AI Physicist for Theoretical and Computational Physics Research

arXiv:2512. 19799v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advances in LLM reasoning and tool use have enabled agentic science, yet frontier theoretical and computational physics remains challenging because research requires deep domain expertise, long-horizon reasoning, and reliable numerical computation.

By Tingjia Miao, Wenkai Jin, Jinxin Tan, Muhua Zhang, Xianghe Pang, Zexi Liu, Yuwen Du, Tian Jin, Tu Guo, Zhengliang Zhang, Jingkun Liu, Yuelin Hu, Jiejun Zhang, Yunjie Huang, Yuhan Wang, Wenbo Li, Yinuo Gao, Shuo Chen, Rui Ye, Yuzhi Zhang, Linfeng Zhang, Kun Chen, Wei Wang, Weinan E, Siheng Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Reason, Reward, Refine: Step-Level Errors Corrections with Structured Feedback for Physics Reasoning in Small Language Models

arXiv:2607. 05199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics reasoning fails structurally in small language models: an error at any step propagates forward, corrupting every inference that follows.

By Raj Jaiswal, Dhruv Jain, Rishabh Dhawan, Sree Krishna Uppalapati, Shin'ichi Satoh, Tanuja Ganu, Rajiv Ratn Shah
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Probing the Difficulty Perception Mechanism of Large Language Models

arXiv:2510. 05969v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on complex reasoning tasks, yet little is known about their ability to internally evaluate problem difficulty, which is an essential capability for adaptive reasoning and efficient resource allocation.

By Sunbowen Lee, Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Jialiang Zhang, Yicheng Gong, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Hierarchical Experimentalist Agents

arXiv:2606. 29315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to take actions in the real world and support human decision-making, yet most agents rely on parametric knowledge, fixed post-training data, retrieval, or search.

By Abhranil Chandra, Sankaran Vaidyanathan, Utsav Dhanuka, Varun Gandhi, Scott Niekum
arXiv AI
Aug 12

When Does Critique Improve AI-Assisted Theoretical Physics? SCALAR: Structured Critic--Actor Loop for Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605. 06772v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) show increasing promise on research-level physics reasoning tasks and agentic AI becomes more common, a practical question emerges: How does the interaction between researchers and agents affect the results?

By Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Alexander G. Stapleton, Sokratis Trifinopoulos