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The rapid rise of autonomous AI systems and advancements in agent capabilities are introducing new risks due to reduced oversight of real-world interactions. Yet agent testing remains nascent and is still a developing science. As AI agents…

Recent advances in agentic Large Language Models (LLMs) have positioned them as generalist planners capable of reasoning and acting across diverse tasks. However, existing agent benchmarks largely focus on symbolic or weakly grounded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Weiyi Wang , Xinchi Chen , Jingjing Gong , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

AI agents may be able to automate your inbox, but can they automate other routine aspects of your life? Everyday online tasks offer a realistic yet unsolved testbed for evaluating the next generation of AI agents. To this end, we introduce…

As single-cell RNA sequencing datasets grow in adoption, scale, and complexity, data analysis remains a bottleneck for many research groups. Although frontier AI agents have improved dramatically at software engineering and general data…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-11 Kenny Workman , Zhen Yang , Harihara Muralidharan , Aidan Abdulali , Hannah Le

Long-lived AI agents are increasingly deployed as persistent operational systems, yet they are still evaluated like freshly initialized models. Day-one benchmarks miss a basic systems question: how long does an agent remain reliable after…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jianing Zhu , Yeonju Ro , John Robertson , Kevin Wang , Junbo Li , Haris Vikalo , Aditya Akella , Zhangyang Wang

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown great potential for solving real-world problems and promise to be a solution for tasks automation in industry. However, more benchmarks are needed to systematically evaluate automation agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yinsheng Li , Zhen Dong , Yi Shao

The advancement of large language model (LLM) based agents has shifted AI evaluation from single-turn response assessment to multi-step task completion in interactive environments. We present an empirical study evaluating frontier AI models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Logan Ritchie , Sushant Mehta , Nick Heiner , Mason Yu , Edwin Chen

We present the AI Cosmologist, an agentic system designed to automate cosmological/astronomical data analysis and machine learning research workflows. This implements a complete pipeline from idea generation to experimental evaluation and…

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Scientific research is being reshaped by AI systems that move beyond isolated assistance toward longer-horizon workflows spanning literature grounding, hypothesis generation, experimentation, validation, reporting, and revision. This shift…

When deployed in the real world, AI agents will inevitably face challenges that exceed their individual capabilities. A critical component of AI safety is an agent's ability to recognize when it is likely to fail in a novel situation and to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mohamad H. Danesh , Nguyen X. Khanh , Tu Trinh , Benjamin Plaut

Markets are a promising way to coordinate AI agent activity for similar reasons to those used to justify markets more broadly. In order to effectively participate in markets, agents need to have informative signals of their own ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Andrey Fradkin , Rohit Krishnan

Evaluating AI agents on comprehensive benchmarks is expensive because each evaluation requires interactive rollouts with tool use and multi-step reasoning. We study whether small task subsets can preserve agent rankings at substantially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Franck Ndzomga

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support scientific research, and recent benchmarks report progress in code repair and autonomous experimentation. However, these evaluations typically assume a pre-configured execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yubang Wang , Chenxi Zhang , Bowen Chen , Zezheng Huai , Zihao Dai , Xinchi Chen , Yuxin Wang , Yining Zheng , Jingjing Gong , Xipeng Qiu

According to canonical negotiation theory, people's success in a negotiation depends on how well they balance competing demands--empathizing and asserting, demonstrating concern for other and concern for self, being soft on the people and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Michelle A. Vaccaro , Jared R. Curhan

With the advent of large multimodal language models, science is now at a threshold of an AI-based technological transformation. An emerging ecosystem of models and tools aims to support researchers throughout the scientific lifecycle,…

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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Scientific knowledge discovery increasingly relies on large language models, yet many existing scholarly assistants depend on proprietary systems with tens or hundreds of billions of parameters. Such reliance limits reproducibility and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Florian Kelber , Matthias Jobst , Yuni Susanti , Michael Färber

Understanding the current capabilities and risks of AI Scientist systems (autoresearch) is essential for ensuring trustworthy and sustainable AI-driven scientific progress while preserving the integrity of the academic ecosystem. To this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Atsuyuki Miyai , Mashiro Toyooka , Takashi Otonari , Zaiying Zhao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

This paper examines the evolution, architecture, and practical applications of AI agents from their early, rule-based incarnations to modern sophisticated systems that integrate large language models with dedicated modules for perception,…

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