AI Scientist Bench

Dimensions

The tasks, datasets and scoring methods behind each column. 5 dimensions have recorded scores; 4 are still in development.

FIG. 01

Scientific tasks

score = metric ×10 · untested = — · not testable = N/A
01
Verify
“Is this claim supported by this abstract? Claim plus sentence-numbered evidence. Return SUPPORT, CONTRADICT or NEI and the sentence IDs.”
Metric
Verdict accuracy
Limitations
rationale overlap reported separately, never multiplied in; review found incomplete and disputed annotations
Dataset
SciFact dev, 300 claims, 5,183-abstract corpus
Licence
CC-BY-NC: score on it, do not redistribute
25 configurations tested
02
Ground
“Which paper established this? Give the DOI.”
Metric
Accuracy, the right DOI
Limitations
paired with grounding (the DOI resolves) and hallucination rate; two splits, canonical and long tail, shown side by side
Dataset
12 canonical + 14 niche 2024-25 claims, DOIs API-confirmed
Licence
hand-authored
2 configurations tested
03
Find
“Pick the five sources this claim cites. Rerank a frozen BM25 candidate pool to exactly five IDs.”
Metric
recall@5
Limitations
paired with the candidate-pool oracle (the ceiling) and free BM25 (the floor); unreachable pools stay in the denominator
Dataset
SciFact claims with cited-source sets over the 5,183-abstract corpus
Licence
CC-BY-NC
5 configurations tested
04
Extract
“Turn this abstract into typed entities and directed relations.”
Metric
mean of entity F1 and relation F1
Limitations
malformed-output rate reported separately so format compliance cannot pass as accuracy
Dataset
SciERC test abstracts, published entity and relation annotations
Licence
research use
10 configurations tested
05
Analyze
“Run this analysis on this dataset and return the numbers. Code executes in a Seatbelt sandbox with NumPy, SciPy and pandas; no network, no host files.”
Metric
Typed numeric checks on the executed artifact, original and hidden perturbed inputs
Limitations
the story is never scored, only the artifact
Dataset
Palmer penguins, NIST StRD (Norris, Mavro, AtmWtAg), one synthetic fixture
Licence
public domain / CC0
3 configurations tested
06
Compute
“Write the code that reproduces this result.”
Metric
Run it, check the number
Limitations
held-out check to punish overfitting the visible test
Dataset
wrap SciCode or CORE-Bench; only an arithmetic stand-in exists today
Licence
Apache
Not yet tested
07
Synthesize
“Answer this research question with citations.”
Metric
Citation F1
Limitations
a calibrated judge ships only with its kappa against a 100-400 item human meta-eval
Dataset
wrap ScholarQABench
Licence
Apache
Not yet tested
08
Review
“Find the weakness in this paper.”
Metric
Judge against expert-written weaknesses
Limitations
A/B and B/A averaged; no model grades itself
Dataset
AAAR-1.0 PaperWeakness; NLPeer
Licence
mixed
Not yet tested
09
Hypothesize
“Propose the next experiment.”
Metric
Arena only: Bradley-Terry over expert votes
Limitations
the best LLM judge reaches 65% alignment with experts on scientific-literature tasks, so a judge score here would be a guess
Dataset
HypoBench, IdeaBench as seeds; no votes exist yet
Licence
mixed
Expert evaluation planned

Scores use each dimension’s own metric: 8.4 in Verify means 84% verdict accuracy; 3.3 in Extract means F1 0.33. There is no combined score.

FIG. 02

Excluded pilot runs

Retained for reference
RunWhy it is not a dimensionWhere
sci_qa20 multiple-choice science questions; every model scores 100%. Saturated; not a dimension.outputs/sci_qa/results.json
compute (stand-in)24 arithmetic MCQ via code execution; a placeholder for SciCode. Every model scores 100%. Not a Compute score.outputs/compute/results.json
litsearchLitSearch open-web finding, 3 queries run. Too small to show.outputs/litsearch/results.json
content pilot12 questions × 6 arms over five books and papers with model-drafted reference answers; a development pilot, not gold.outputs/content-pilot/