2 papers
cs.AI2026
Into the Unknown: Benchmarking AI agents on open scientific research problems
Seungone Kim, Jiayi Geng, Young-Jun Lee +25
Can AI agents carry out research on open scientific problems? We introduce Into the Unknown, a benchmark that provides an agent with a science paper along with a research direction…
cs.SE2026
Merged, Not Measured: An Empirical Study of Performance Issues Fixed by Coding Agents
Zhenyu Qi, Haotang Li, Jinfu Chen +6
Coding agents open pull requests (PRs) that claim to speed up software, but studies of human performance fixes say little about how maintainers respond to such a fix or whether its…