New benchmark tests AI agents on real scientific software workflows

OSWorld-Science evaluates computer-using agents across molecular drawing, pathology analysis, statistics, and simulation, finding frontier models still struggle.

Top University
Dingyuan Dai · Heli Qi · Lei Liu · Yinxi Li · Baiding Chen · Zijun Dou · +25 more

Tsinghua University · University of California, Los Angeles · RIKEN AIP · University of Waterloo · Carnegie Mellon University

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Dai et al.

The authors built OSWorld-Science, an integrated framework combining scientifically meaningful tasks, artifact-based evaluation, and a flexible agent harness.

Why this paper

From RIKEN AIP and 15 others · Part of Process Agent Benchmarks, now 17 papers

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Current VLMs achieve under 70% success on scientific software tasks, revealing major gaps in specialized interface use.

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