PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research
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| author | Starace, Giulio Jaffe, Oliver Sherburn, Dane Aung, James Chan, Jun Shern Maksin, Leon Dias, Rachel Mays, Evan Kinsella, Benjamin Thompson, Wyatt Heidecke, Johannes Glaese, Amelia Patwardhan, Tejal |
| author_facet | Starace, Giulio Jaffe, Oliver Sherburn, Dane Aung, James Chan, Jun Shern Maksin, Leon Dias, Rachel Mays, Evan Kinsella, Benjamin Thompson, Wyatt Heidecke, Johannes Glaese, Amelia Patwardhan, Tejal |
| contents | We introduce PaperBench, a benchmark evaluating the ability of AI agents to replicate state-of-the-art AI research. Agents must replicate 20 ICML 2024 Spotlight and Oral papers from scratch, including understanding paper contributions, developing a codebase, and successfully executing experiments. For objective evaluation, we develop rubrics that hierarchically decompose each replication task into smaller sub-tasks with clear grading criteria. In total, PaperBench contains 8,316 individually gradable tasks. Rubrics are co-developed with the author(s) of each ICML paper for accuracy and realism. To enable scalable evaluation, we also develop an LLM-based judge to automatically grade replication attempts against rubrics, and assess our judge's performance by creating a separate benchmark for judges. We evaluate several frontier models on PaperBench, finding that the best-performing tested agent, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) with open-source scaffolding, achieves an average replication score of 21.0%. Finally, we recruit top ML PhDs to attempt a subset of PaperBench, finding that models do not yet outperform the human baseline. We open-source our code (https://github.com/openai/preparedness) to facilitate future research in understanding the AI engineering capabilities of AI agents. |
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| spellingShingle | PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research Starace, Giulio Jaffe, Oliver Sherburn, Dane Aung, James Chan, Jun Shern Maksin, Leon Dias, Rachel Mays, Evan Kinsella, Benjamin Thompson, Wyatt Heidecke, Johannes Glaese, Amelia Patwardhan, Tejal Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language We introduce PaperBench, a benchmark evaluating the ability of AI agents to replicate state-of-the-art AI research. Agents must replicate 20 ICML 2024 Spotlight and Oral papers from scratch, including understanding paper contributions, developing a codebase, and successfully executing experiments. For objective evaluation, we develop rubrics that hierarchically decompose each replication task into smaller sub-tasks with clear grading criteria. In total, PaperBench contains 8,316 individually gradable tasks. Rubrics are co-developed with the author(s) of each ICML paper for accuracy and realism. To enable scalable evaluation, we also develop an LLM-based judge to automatically grade replication attempts against rubrics, and assess our judge's performance by creating a separate benchmark for judges. We evaluate several frontier models on PaperBench, finding that the best-performing tested agent, Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) with open-source scaffolding, achieves an average replication score of 21.0%. Finally, we recruit top ML PhDs to attempt a subset of PaperBench, finding that models do not yet outperform the human baseline. We open-source our code (https://github.com/openai/preparedness) to facilitate future research in understanding the AI engineering capabilities of AI agents. |
| title | PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01848 |