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Perfect score on IPhO 2025 theory by Gemini agent

Physics Education 2026-03-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) is the world's most prestigious and renowned physics competition for pre-university students. IPhO problems require complex reasoning based on deep understanding of physical principles in a standard general physics curriculum. On IPhO 2025 theory problems, while gold medal performance by AI models was reported previously, it falls behind the best human contestant. Here we build a simple agent with Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. We run it five times and it achieved a perfect score every time. However, data contamination could occur because Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview was released after the competition.

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@article{arxiv.2603.03352,
  title  = {Perfect score on IPhO 2025 theory by Gemini agent},
  author = {Yichen Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03352},
  year   = {2026}
}