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New benchmark evaluates LLM agents for solving partial differential equations

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Researchers have introduced RSI-PDEbench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the performance of self-improving Large Language Model (LLM) agents in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The benchmark includes 1,001 cases across 42 equation templates and features three evaluation settings: noise-free data, noisy data, and out-of-distribution generalization. A novel agent harness called RSI-PDE was developed, which uses residual loss for equation selection and relative L2 feedback for refining coefficients and solvers, significantly improving success rates and reducing model calls compared to baseline methods and native agent harnesses. AI

IMPACT This benchmark and agent harness could accelerate the application of LLMs in scientific computing and complex problem-solving domains.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Binghang Lu, Lang Cao, Changhong Mou, Yige Sun, Cindy Xiangrui Kong, Zheyuan Deng, Tian Yuan, Bing Hu, Runyu Zhang, Na Lu, Guang Lin ·

    RSI-PDEbench: A Benchmark for Self-Improving Agents in PDE Solving

    arXiv:2611.14949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying and solving partial differential equations (PDEs) from sampled solution data often requires substantial expert effort in equation discovery, coefficient estimation, and numerical solver configuration, especially under no…

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