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Physics problems constitute a significant aspect of reasoning, necessitating complicated reasoning ability and abundant physics knowledge. However, existing large language models (LLMs) frequently fail due to a lack of knowledge or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xinyu Pang , Ruixin Hong , Zhanke Zhou , Fangrui Lv , Xinwei Yang , Zhilong Liang , Bo Han , Changshui Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced and are increasingly capable of tackling complex scientific problems, including those in physics. Despite this progress, current LLMs often fail to emulate the concise, principle-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yinggan Xu , Yue Liu , Zhiqiang Gao , Changnan Peng , Di Luo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on advanced reasoning tasks such as mathematics and coding competitions. Meanwhile, physics, despite being both reasoning-intensive and essential to real-world understanding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shenghe Zheng , Qianjia Cheng , Junchi Yao , Mengsong Wu , Haonan He , Ning Ding , Yu Cheng , Shuyue Hu , Lei Bai , Dongzhan Zhou , Ganqu Cui , Peng Ye

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in domains such as mathematics and programming, yet their capabilities in physics remain underexplored and poorly understood. Physics poses unique challenges that demand not…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing across diverse domains, yet their application in theoretical physics remains inadequate. While current models show competence in mathematical reasoning and code generation, we identify…

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The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced new possibilities and challenges in physics education, necessitating rigorous evaluation of their capabilities as both problem solvers and automated assessors. This paper…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-25 Jonah R. Donaldson , Aliya Navaz , Konstantinos Doran , Alysta Lim , Mario Campanelli

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, including software development, education, and technical assistance. Among these, software development is one of the key areas where LLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Inpyo Song , Eunji Jeon , Jangwon Lee

Building precise simulations of the real world and invoking numerical solvers to answer quantitative problems is an essential requirement in engineering and science. We present FEABench, a benchmark to evaluate the ability of large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Nayantara Mudur , Hao Cui , Subhashini Venugopalan , Paul Raccuglia , Michael P. Brenner , Peter Norgaard

While recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress, it remains difficult to determine why they succeed or fail on complex reasoning tasks. Traditional benchmarks evaluate what models can answer correctly, not why…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ieva Bagdonaviciute , Vibhav Vineet

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) grow in sophistication, their ability to perform reasoning is coming under increasing supervision. While they excel at many tasks, their grasp of fundamental scientific principles, such as physics, remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Pranav Pawar , Kavish Shah , Akshat Bhalani , Komal Kasat , Dev Mittal , Hadi Gala , Deepali Patil , Nikita Raichada , Monali Deshmukh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in text-based tasks but struggle with the complex reasoning required for physics problems, particularly in advanced arithmetic and conceptual understanding. While some…

Reasoning models are the new generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) capable of complex problem solving. Their reliability in solving introductory physics problems was tested by evaluating a sample of n = 5 solutions generated by one…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-08-29 Amir Bralin , N. Sanjay Rebello

Frontier LLMs now perform strongly across a wide range of physics evaluations, but it is hard to disentangle genuine reasoning from recall of established science. We introduce DiscoverPhysics, an interactive benchmark that asks a LLM agent…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex reasoning tasks, particularly in mathematics. However, the domain of physics reasoning presents unique challenges that have received significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xin Xu , Qiyun Xu , Tong Xiao , Tianhao Chen , Yuchen Yan , Jiaxin Zhang , Shizhe Diao , Can Yang , Yang Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly important role in physics research by assisting with symbolic manipulation, numerical computation, and scientific reasoning. However, ensuring the reliability, transparency, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yinggan Xu , Hana Kimlee , Yijia Xiao , Di Luo

Evaluating the scientific discovery capabilities of large language model based agents, particularly how they cope with varying environmental complexity and utilize prior knowledge, requires specialized benchmarks currently lacking in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yimeng Chen , Piotr Piȩkos , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Firas Laakom , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Small Language Models (SLMs) offer privacy and efficiency for educational deployment, yet their utility depends on reliable multistep reasoning. Existing benchmarks often prioritize final answer accuracy, obscuring 'right answer, wrong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Nicy Scaria , Silvester John Joseph Kennedy , Krishna Agarwal , Diksha Seth , Deepak Subramani

The paradigm of agentic science requires AI systems to conduct robust reasoning and engage in long-horizon, autonomous exploration. However, current scientific benchmarks remain confined to domain knowledge comprehension and complex…

Navigating the complexities of physics reasoning has long been a difficult task for Large Language Models (LLMs), requiring a synthesis of profound conceptual understanding and adept problem-solving techniques. In this study, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Nifu Dan , Yujun Cai , Yiwei Wang

With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLM) are widely used in many fields. However, the reasoning ability of LLM is still very limited when it comes to mathematical reasoning. Mathematics plays an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Wenbei Xie , Donglin Liu , Haoran Yan , Wenjie Wu , Zongyang Liu
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