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Lindsay M. Smith and Matt Wiemann launch DiscoverPhysics to evaluate LLM agents on scientific experimentation and physical law discovery

The pipeline tests if LLMs can design scientific experiments.

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Matt Wiemann@Space_Boy_Matt

Can LLMs discover new laws of physics?

We present DiscoverPhysics, a pipeline to benchmark LLM agents on experimentation, analysis & discovery. Co-led by @LindsayMSmith3 w/ Peter Melchior,@kdqg1 @andrewgwils @Pavel_Izmailov,Carolina Cuesta-Lázaro https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26087 1/10

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Matt Wiemann@Space_Boy_Matt

Can LLMs discover new laws of physics?

We present DiscoverPhysics, a pipeline to benchmark LLM agents on experimentation, analysis and discovery. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26087 Co-led by @LindsayMSmith3 w/ Peter Melchior, @kdqg1 @andrewgwils @Pavel_Izmailov Carol Cuesta-Lazaro 1/10

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So excited about this project. Despite all the talk about AGI, AI has barely scratched the surface of discovering scientific theories or even giving us new scientific insights. DiscoverPhysics is a benchmark for the future.

Matt Wiemann@Space_Boy_Matt

Can LLMs discover new laws of physics?

We present DiscoverPhysics, a pipeline to benchmark LLM agents on experimentation, analysis and discovery. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26087 Co-led by @LindsayMSmith3 w/ Peter Melchior, @kdqg1 @andrewgwils @Pavel_Izmailov Carol Cuesta-Lazaro 1/10

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