LLM agents struggle to generate physics simulators from descriptions, new benchmark shows

WorldSolver benchmark of 168 tasks from computer graphics papers tests agents on execution, visual fidelity, and physical plausibility of generated solvers.

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Siru Jiang · Yongzhe Lyu · Shuo Lu · Yubin Wang · Yuxiang Zhang · Yue Liao · +3 more

Chinese Academy of Sciences · Peking University · Huawei

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The authors introduce WorldSolver, a benchmark of 168 simulation tasks derived from physical phenomena in 61 classic computer graphics papers across 7 domains.

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From Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 others

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Generating correct physics solvers from text descriptions is difficult for LLM agents, as shown by the WorldSolver benchmark.

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