arXiv:2605.00803cs.CLcond-mat.mtrl-sci2026-05被引 6

测试大模型代码代理能否复现材料科学论文结论,结果表现不佳。

Can Coding Agents Reproduce Findings in Computational Materials Science?

论文配图:Can Coding Agents Reproduce Findings in Computational Materials Science?
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  • 构建新基准AutoMat,评估代码代理复现材料科学流程的能力。
  • 最佳模型成功率仅54.1%,主要因流程缺失和执行不稳导致失败。
  • 适合关注AI在科研中可复现性与代理系统局限的研究者。

大型语言模型作为自主代码代理在软件工程任务中表现优异,但其在计算科学工作流中的适用性尚不明确,此类任务不仅需要强大编码能力,还需理解领域特定流程并结合科学假设解读结果。为此,我们提出AutoMat基准,用于评估基于LLM的代理复现计算材料科学论文中主张的能力。AutoMat包含三大挑战:从不完整文本中恢复计算流程、使用专业工具链、判断结果是否支持原主张。通过与领域专家合作,我们从真实材料科学论文中提取主张,测试代理是否能完整执行支撑(或推翻)这些主张的全流程。我们在多个基础模型上评估多种代表性代码代理设置,结果显示当前代理在AutoMat上的整体成功率很低,最高仅为54.1%。错误分析表明,当流程需完全从论文文本重建时表现最差,主要失败原因包括流程不完整、方法偏离和执行脆弱性。该研究使AutoMat成为计算科学可复现性评估与诊断智能体系统局限性的工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous coding agents and have achieved remarkably strong performance on software engineering benchmarks. However, it is unclear whether such success transfers to computational scientific workflows, where tasks require not only strong coding ability, but also the ability to navigate complex, domain-specific procedures and to interpret results in the context of scientific claims. To address this question, we present AutoMat, a benchmark for evaluating LLM-based agents' ability to reproduce claims from computational materials science. AutoMat poses three interrelated challenges: recovering underspecified computational procedures, navigating specialized toolchains, and determining whether the resulting evidence supports a claim. By working closely with subject matter experts, we curate a set of claims from real materials science papers to test whether coding agents can recover and execute the end-to-end workflow needed to support (or undermine) such claims. We then evaluate multiple representative coding agent settings across several foundation models. Our results show that current LLM-based agents obtain low overall success rates on AutoMat, with the best-performing setting achieving a success rate of only 54.1%. Error analysis further reveals that agents perform worst when workflows must be reconstructed from paper text alone and that they fail primarily due to incomplete procedures, methodological deviations, and execution fragility. Taken together, these findings position AutoMat as both a benchmark for computational scientific reproducibility and a tool for diagnosing the current limitations of agentic systems in AI-for-science settings.

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