3 papers
cs.AI2026
Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies
Peter Kirgis, Sayash Kapoor, Andrew Schwartz +21
Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations eithe…
cs.AI2026
Life After Benchmark Saturation: A Case Study of CORE-Bench
Nitya Nadgir, Sayash Kapoor, Kangheng Liu +11
When a benchmark's accuracy saturates, it is often retired and replaced with a more challenging version. We show that this approach privileges accuracy and misses the opportunity t…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Attention Is Not All You Need for Diffraction
Elizabeth J. Baggett, Edward G. Friedman, Abhishek Shetty +5
Determining crystal symmetry from powder X-ray diffraction is a central problem in materials characterization, yet multiple space groups can produce indistinguishable patterns, mak…