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Hauptverfasser: Nie, Fan, Wang, Junlin, Hua, Harper, Bianchi, Federico, Kwon, Yongchan, Qi, Zhenting, Queen, Owen, Zhu, Shang, Zou, James
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16344
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author Nie, Fan
Wang, Junlin
Hua, Harper
Bianchi, Federico
Kwon, Yongchan
Qi, Zhenting
Queen, Owen
Zhu, Shang
Zou, James
author_facet Nie, Fan
Wang, Junlin
Hua, Harper
Bianchi, Federico
Kwon, Yongchan
Qi, Zhenting
Queen, Owen
Zhu, Shang
Zou, James
contents Data science agents promise to accelerate discovery and insight-generation by turning data into executable analyses and findings. Yet existing data science benchmarks fall short due to fragmented evaluation interfaces that make cross-benchmark comparison difficult, narrow task coverage and a lack of rigorous data grounding. In particular, we show that a substantial portion of tasks in current benchmarks can be solved without using the actual data. To address these limitations, we introduce DSGym, a standardized framework for evaluating and training data science agents in self-contained execution environments. Unlike static benchmarks, DSGym provides a modular architecture that makes it easy to add tasks, agent scaffolds, and tools, positioning it as a live, extensible testbed. We curate DSGym-Tasks, a holistic task suite that standardizes and refines existing benchmarks via quality and shortcut solvability filtering. We further expand coverage with (1) DSBio: expert-derived bioinformatics tasks grounded in literature and (2) DSPredict: challenging prediction tasks spanning domains such as computer vision, molecular prediction, and single-cell perturbation. Beyond evaluation, DSGym enables agent training via execution-verified data synthesis pipeline. As a case study, we build a 2,000-example training set and trained a 4B model in DSGym that outperforms GPT-4o on standardized analysis benchmarks. Overall, DSGym enables rigorous end-to-end measurement of whether agents can plan, implement, and validate data analyses in realistic scientific context.
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spellingShingle DSGym: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating and Training Data Science Agents
Nie, Fan
Wang, Junlin
Hua, Harper
Bianchi, Federico
Kwon, Yongchan
Qi, Zhenting
Queen, Owen
Zhu, Shang
Zou, James
Artificial Intelligence
Data science agents promise to accelerate discovery and insight-generation by turning data into executable analyses and findings. Yet existing data science benchmarks fall short due to fragmented evaluation interfaces that make cross-benchmark comparison difficult, narrow task coverage and a lack of rigorous data grounding. In particular, we show that a substantial portion of tasks in current benchmarks can be solved without using the actual data. To address these limitations, we introduce DSGym, a standardized framework for evaluating and training data science agents in self-contained execution environments. Unlike static benchmarks, DSGym provides a modular architecture that makes it easy to add tasks, agent scaffolds, and tools, positioning it as a live, extensible testbed. We curate DSGym-Tasks, a holistic task suite that standardizes and refines existing benchmarks via quality and shortcut solvability filtering. We further expand coverage with (1) DSBio: expert-derived bioinformatics tasks grounded in literature and (2) DSPredict: challenging prediction tasks spanning domains such as computer vision, molecular prediction, and single-cell perturbation. Beyond evaluation, DSGym enables agent training via execution-verified data synthesis pipeline. As a case study, we build a 2,000-example training set and trained a 4B model in DSGym that outperforms GPT-4o on standardized analysis benchmarks. Overall, DSGym enables rigorous end-to-end measurement of whether agents can plan, implement, and validate data analyses in realistic scientific context.
title DSGym: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating and Training Data Science Agents
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16344