arXiv:2607. 29626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs evolve from code completion systems into autonomous scientific agents, evaluating their ability to conduct experiments has become increasingly important.
By Tianyu Huai, Tingshuo Fan, Xinchi Chen, Yining Zheng, Yuxin Wang, Shuang Chen, Jie Zhou, Xuanjing Huang
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.
By Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Zhongyan Luo, Jinyan Su, Kaiser Sun, Xinle Yu, Jieyuan Liu, Kun Zhou, Claire Cardie, Mark Dredze, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing
arXiv:2607. 20468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly used to automate research and development tasks, yet existing benchmarks typically evaluate them on prescribed workflows or narrow action spaces.
By Jehyeok Yeon, Ben Rank, Maksym Andriushchenko
arXiv:2606. 04261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Curating training data is among the most consequential yet labor-intensive parts of modern AI development: practitioners iteratively propose, implement, evaluate, and revise data policies against noisy benchmark feedback.
By Feiyang Kang, Hanze Li, Adam Nguyen, Mahavir Dabas, Jiaqi W. Ma, Frederic Sala, Dawn Song, Ruoxi Jia
arXiv:2603. 17216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the advent of AI agents, automated scientific discovery is becoming an increasingly plausible goal.
By Ziyang Cai, Amir Saeidi, Harkirat Behl
arXiv:2608. 12593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discovery---formulating novel generalizations---is a central part of the scientific process.
By Ruairidh M. Battleday, Kai Sandbrink, Jimi Cullen-Drohan, Zihan Yan, Timothy Muller, Clare Maguire, Ales Kubicek, Fraser Greenlee-Scott, Sukrit Sumant, Tri Dao, J\"urgen Schmidhuber, Michal Valko, Joshua Tenenbaum, Thomas L. Griffiths, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, James C. R. Whittington
arXiv:2607. 04395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent agentic approaches to LLM-based kernel generation have achieved impressive results on CUDA.
By Junjie Tang, Jun Huan, Hao Zhou, Yuhao Zhang, Lin Wang
arXiv:2604. 17931v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful training paradigm for LLM-based agents.
By Wanli Li, Bince Qu, Bo Pan, Jianyu Zhang, Zheng Liu, Pan Zhang, Wei Chen, Bo Zhang
arXiv:2608. 16798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent harnesses have substantially improved performance on long-horizon tasks by coordinating agent interactions with the environment.
By Huatong Song, Fei Bai, Ming Yang, Renyuan Li, Jia Deng, Jujie He, Zhange Zhang, Daixuan Cheng, Yan Xing, Qi Yun, Xuxing Chen, Danyang Li, Feng Chang, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Jian Yang, Bryan Dai, Wayne Xin Zhao, Mingjie Tang, Ji-Rong Wen
arXiv:2608. 11232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating LLM coding agents in algorithmic trading is difficult because static benchmarks risk data contamination and numerical backtest outputs require ground truth from actual code execution.
By Ruoxi Zhao, Maziar Raissi
arXiv:2608. 12564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating empirical research is a long-standing direction of AI.
By Xiyuan Yang, Sheikh Sarwar, Jingru Cheng, Zhan Shi, Duanshun Li, Huiyuan Chen, Haiyang Zhang, Chenlei Guo, Jingrui He, Zhenyu Liao
arXiv:2602. 21534v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) has rapidly gained attention as a promising paradigm for training agents to solve complex, multi-step interactive tasks.
By Xiaoxuan Wang, Han Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yidan Shi, Ruoyan Li, Kaiqiao Han, Chenyi Tong, Haoran Deng, Renliang Sun, Alexander Taylor, Yanqiao Zhu, Jason Cong, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang