The authors built a three-stage pipeline: discover repositories containing scientific code, data and research context; extract workflows and synthesize tasks; then verify the resulting environments.
Scientific code repositories yield more agent training tasks through workflow decomposition
The authors report that Poseidon generates 9.3 times as many verified environments as a prior pipeline under a matched repository budget.
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Qifan Zhang · Yuhan Li · Nuo Chen · Bowen Liu · Xiao Hu · Miao Peng · +5 more
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Hunyuan Team, Tencent
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Zhang and colleagues introduce Poseidon, a pipeline that converts scientific code repositories into executable, automatically checked tasks for training research agents.
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