AIRS-Bench: a Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents research paper by Meta, 2026
Meta · Applied AI · Feb 6, 2026 · 30 citations · 83 upvotes · unverified
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AIRS-Bench presents a comprehensive benchmark suite for evaluating LLM agents across diverse scientific domains, demonstrating current limitations while providing open-source resources for advancement.
By Alisia Lupidi, Bhavul Gauri, Thomas Simon Foster and 34 more · arXiv 2602.06855 · PDF · Code
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About this paper
- Venue
- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 30, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 83 · Hugging Face
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