#physics problem solving

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cs.AI2026

Exploring Structures in Physics Problems: Can AI Agents Discover Statistical Mechanical Mappings?

Wanyu Zhao, Wanbing Zhao

The paper studies whether large language model agents can discover statistical‑mechanical mappings for physics problems, introducing a benchmark of Ising‑type tasks and evaluating…

#large language models#statistical mechanics#physics problem solving#benchmarking

physics.ed-ph2026

Assessing AI in Introductory Physics Problem Solving

Amir Bralin, N. Sanjay Rebello

The paper evaluates OpenAI's o4-mini large language model on introductory physics problems from Halliday and Resnick, finding about 90% overall accuracy but lower performance on im…

#large language models#physics problem solving#introductory physics#image-text integration