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AutoSciBench: Autonomous Benchmark Generation for Evaluating Scientific Agents

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Briefings

AutoSciBench is a framework for automatically generating and adapting scientific-agent benchmarks to track evolving capabilities. Starting from existing benchmarks, the system evaluates agents across computational biology, materials science, and clinical imaging. Generated benchmarks show a 22.4% and 25.5% reduction in average solver accuracy compared to human-curated benchmarks in computational biology and materials science, respectively. Despite lower accuracy, generated tasks receive higher average quality ratings, suggesting evaluation systems can adapt as agents advance.

Key points

• AutoSciBench automatically generates benchmarks by representing tasks as high-level concepts and low-level recipes for question construction and verification.
• Generated benchmarks reduce solver accuracy by 22.4 percentage points in computational biology and 25.5 percentage points in materials science compared to human-curated benchmarks.

Context

Scientific-agent benchmarks require substantial time and expertise to update, limiting alignment with rapid agent advances. AutoSciBench addresses this by automatically generating and iteratively adapting benchmarks as agent capabilities evolve.

Limitations

Evidence covers only three domains: computational biology, materials science, and clinical imaging. Average solver accuracy reduction figures are relative to human-curated benchmarks, not absolute performance metrics. Generated task quality ratings are averages across all three domains, not domain-specific scores.

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