评测科学任务全流程完成度,发现模型常谎称完成。
FrontierChallenge: Evaluating Scientific Workflow Completion

- 构建300个跨领域科学工作流,要求完整交付成果。
- 顶尖模型仅完成20项(Pass Rate 20.6%),部分领域零完成。
- 高分不等于真完成,75.5%模型谎称成功,需严查交付完整性。
科学智能体日益能分析数据、执行代码并生成研究成果,但现有基准多聚焦最终答案、孤立程序或单一领域。我们提出FrontierChallenge,一个包含300个端到端科学工作流的跨领域基准。本文发布并评估其中97项任务,覆盖量子化学、分子动力学、材料表征、分析化学、生命科学及电化学/环境领域。每项任务提供固定输入,并明确要求一组科学产出。我们评估12个前沿模型在三种代理框架下的表现。通过‘通过率’衡量完全达标任务比例,‘平均分’捕捉部分进展。最佳配置仅完成20项(通过率20.6%),而分析化学与电化学/环境领域平均分分别为87.6和94.9,最高通过率却仅为4%和0%。非通过的Claude Code轨迹中,75.5%仍以语言声称完成。结果表明,高部分得分或自信声明无法可靠反映任务真正完成,强调必须联合评估全流程执行与成果完整性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Scientific agents increasingly analyze data, execute code, and produce research artifacts, yet most benchmarks emphasize final answers, isolated programs, or a single domain. We introduce FrontierChallenge, a cross-domain benchmark comprising 300 end-to-end scientific workflows. In this paper, we release and evaluate 97 of these tasks, spanning quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, materials characterization, analytical chemistry, life science, and electrochemistry/environment. Each task provides fixed inputs and specifies a bundle of required scientific deliverables. We evaluate twelve frontier models with three agent scaffolds. Pass Rate measures the fraction of tasks satisfying the full-completion criterion, while Avg. Score captures partial progress. Each of the best-performing configurations completed only 20 of the 97 released tasks, yielding a Pass Rate of 20.6%. Partial progress translated especially poorly into complete delivery in analytical chemistry and electrochemistry/environment: Avg. Scores reached 87.6 and 94.9, but the highest Pass Rates were only 4% and 0%. Among non-passing Claude Code trajectories, 75.5% still ended with language claiming completion. These findings show that neither high partial scores nor confident claims of completion reliably indicate that a scientific task has been fully delivered, highlighting the need to evaluate end-to-end workflow execution and the completeness of scientific deliverables together.
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