PAPERBENCHX: Can AI Reproduce Science Across Disciplines?
arXiv:2610.39744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before AI can be trusted to discover new science, it should be able to reproduce what science already knows. Reproduction provides a rigorous checkpoint for an AI scientist: the target claim is known, yet recovering it still requires translating an incomplete scientific description into an executable experiment and producing evidence that can be independently verified. Existing research-reproduction benchmarks largely focus on AI and machine learn…