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FrontierPhysics: Evaluating Agents for End-to-End Physics Research

AI agents are playing an increasingly important role in physics research. However, existing physics benchmarks only evaluate fixed questions, isolated sub-tasks, or paper reproduction with given solut

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FrontierPhysics is an end-to-end benchmark of 56 expert-designed physics tasks that evaluates AI agents on literature review, research planning, experimentation, and manuscript production using deterministic verifiers and expert rubrics.

AI agents are playing an increasingly important role in physics research. However, existing physics benchmarks only evaluate fixed questions, isolated sub-tasks, or paper reproduction with given solutions, and rarely check research quality alongside correctness. We introduce FrontierPhysics, an end-to-end benchmark with 56 tasks made by 42 physicists based on their own research, covering nine domains across theoretical, computational, and experimental physics. Each task requires agents to review the literature, develop a research plan, conduct research and experiments, and produce structured outputs and scientific manuscripts. Combining deterministic verifiers with expert-authored rubrics,…

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Summary and abstract excerpt via Hugging Face Papers ↗ · arXiv.

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FrontierPhysics: Evaluating Agents for End-to-End Physics Research was first seen on Hugging Face · Daily papers on Nov 5, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 16 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #3 of 30, reached on Nov 6, 01:28 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 6, 13:28 UTC.

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