Add 31 PRBench task specifications (instructions, task.yaml, paper markdown; ground truth withheld)
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| pretty_name: PRBench | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| tags: | |
| - physics | |
| - benchmark | |
| - agents | |
| - scientific-reproduction | |
| - paper-reproduction | |
| size_categories: | |
| - n<1K | |
| configs: | |
| - config_name: default | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: test | |
| path: tasks.jsonl | |
| # PRBench: Physics Paper Reproduction Benchmark | |
| PRBench evaluates whether an AI agent can read a physics paper and reproduce its | |
| computational results from scratch: understand the method, implement the | |
| simulation or calculation without the paper's original code, run it, and | |
| produce figure/table data that a model judge compares against withheld reference results. | |
| This repository contains the **public task specifications** for 31 tasks | |
| spanning plasma physics, nuclear and particle theory, lattice QCD, strong-field and | |
| attosecond physics, quantum optics, trapped-ion quantum computing, condensed matter, | |
| heavy-ion hydrodynamics, atomic structure, astrophysics, and computational electromagnetics. | |
| ## What is included | |
| Each task directory holds exactly what the solving agent is given: | |
| | File | Purpose | | |
| |------|---------| | |
| | `task.yaml` | Task configuration: paper info, expected output files, Docker environment, grading rubric (full and code-only modes) | | |
| | `instruction.md` | The instruction sent to the agent: target figures/tables, required code files, CSV output formats, and (for most tasks) banned libraries | | |
| | `<paper>.md` | The paper, converted to Markdown (the agent's only view of the paper) | | |
| | images, `images/`, `images1/` | Paper figures copied into the agent workspace (only for tasks that have them) | | |
| | `eosq.dat` | Input data file required by `task_kolb_2003` (declared in `input_files`) | | |
| `tasks.jsonl` is a one-row-per-task index (paper metadata, full instruction text, | |
| expected outputs, environment, and rubric weights) that drives the dataset viewer. | |
| ## What is withheld | |
| To keep the benchmark usable for evaluation, grading references are **not** published: | |
| - `metadata.md`: ground-truth formulas and methodology used by the judge | |
| - `data/`: reference CSV outputs | |
| - `reproduce/` / `reproduction/`: reference implementations | |
| - original source archives and PDFs | |
| Fields in `task.yaml` such as `metadata_file`, `ground_truth_data_dir`, and | |
| `ground_truth_code_dir` refer to these withheld files. | |
| ## Evaluation protocol | |
| An evaluation run copies the paper Markdown, figures, and input files into an | |
| isolated Docker workspace and sends `instruction.md` to the agent. The agent | |
| must write: | |
| 1. `reproduction/ANALYSIS.md`: its analysis of the paper's methodology, | |
| 2. the code files listed under `expected_outputs.code`, | |
| 3. the CSV files listed under `expected_outputs.data`. | |
| Only after the agent finishes is the ground truth placed in the workspace, and a | |
| model judge scores the submission on the rubric dimensions in `task.yaml` (typically | |
| methodology understanding, code correctness, data accuracy, and completeness, with | |
| data accuracy weighted most heavily). In **code-only mode**, the | |
| `code_only.instruction_suffix` is appended to the instruction, the agent writes | |
| code without running it, and the `code_only.grading` rubric applies. | |
| ## Loading | |
| ```python | |
| from datasets import load_dataset | |
| tasks = load_dataset("Rise-AGI/PRBench", split="test") | |
| # or fetch the full task directories | |
| from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download | |
| path = snapshot_download("Rise-AGI/PRBench", repo_type="dataset") | |
| ``` | |
| ## Tasks | |
| | Task ID | Paper | Authors | Year | Reference | | |
| |---------|-------|---------|------|-----------| | |
| | `task_bude_2021` | Accelerating simulations of electromagnetic waves in hot, magnetized fusion plasmas | R H S Budé, D Van Eester, J van Dijk, R J E Jaspers and A B Smolders | 2021 | [10.1088/1361-6587/abd619](https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/abd619) | | |
| | `task_davighi_2024` | Topological Portal to the Dark Sector | Joe Davighi, Admir Greljo, Nudžeim Selimović | 2024 | arXiv:2401.09528 | | |
| | `task_dimitrov_2000` | Chirality of Nuclear Rotation | S. Dimitrov, T. Frauendorf, F. Dönau | 2000 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5732](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5732) | | |
| | `task_dong_2025` | Enhanced nonlinear Hall effect by Cooper pairs near the superconducting phase transition | Zi-Hao Dong, Hui Yang, Yi Zhang | 2025 | [10.1103/PhysRevB.111.155120](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.155120) | | |
| | `task_fu_2001` | Classical collisional trajectories as the source of strong-field double ionization of helium in the knee regime | L. B. Fu, J. Liu, J. Chen, S. G. Chen | 2001 | [10.1103/PhysRevA.63.043416](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.043416) | | |
| | `task_fu_2008` | Energetic-Particle-Induced Geodesic Acoustic Mode | Guoyong Fu | 2008 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.185002](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.185002) | | |
| | `task_fukushima_2004` | Chiral effective model with the Polyakov loop | Kenji Fukushima | 2004 | [10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.027](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.027) | | |
| | `task_gralla_2018` | Observational Signature of High Spin at the Event Horizon Telescope | Samuel E. Gralla, Alexandru Lupsasca, Andrew Strominger | 2018 | [10.1093/mnras/sty039](https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty039) | | |
| | `task_harris_1989` | Lasers without Inversion: Interference of Lifetime-Broadened Resonances | S. E. Harris | 1989 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1033](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1033) | | |
| | `task_harris_1999` | Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels | S. E. Harris and Lene Vestergaard Hau | 1999 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4611](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4611) | | |
| | `task_ishikawa_1982` | The glueball mass spectrum in QCD: first results of a lattice Monte Carlo calculation | K. Ishikawa, M. Teper, G. Schierholz | 1982 | — | | |
| | `task_kolb_2003` | Hydrodynamic description of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions | Peter F. Kolb and Ulrich Heinz | 2003 | nucl-th/0305084v2 | | |
| | `task_li_2014` | Classical-Quantum Correspondence for Above-Threshold Ionization | Min Li, Ji-Wei Geng, Hong Liu, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong, Yunquan Liu | 2014 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.113002](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.113002) | | |
| | `task_lin_2020` | Bootstraps to Strings: Solving Random Matrix Models with Positivity | Henry W. Lin | 2020 | arXiv:2002.08387 | | |
| | `task_liu_2025` | Scattering Entanglement Entropy and Its Implications for Electroweak Phase Transitions | Jia Liu, Masanori Tanaka, Xiao-Ping Wang, Jing-Jun Zhang, Zifan Zheng | 2025 | arXiv:2505.06001v2 | | |
| | `task_luscher_1991` | Signatures of unstable particles in finite volume | Martin Luscher | 1991 | [10.1016/0550-3213(91)90584-K](https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(91)90584-K) | | |
| | `task_monmayrant_2010` | A newcomer's guide to ultrashort pulse shaping and characterization | Antoine Monmayrant, Sébastien Weber, Béatrice Chatel | 2010 | [10.1088/0953-4075/43/10/103001](https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/43/10/103001) | | |
| | `task_parke_1986` | Amplitude for n-Gluon Scattering | Stephen J. Parke and T. R. Taylor | 1986 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2459](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2459) | | |
| | `task_ratti_2006` | Phases of QCD: Lattice thermodynamics and a field theoretical model | Claudia Ratti, Michael A. Thaler, Wolfram Weise | 2006 | [10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014019](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014019) | | |
| | `task_roothaan_1960` | Self-Consistent Field Theory for Atomic Systems | Clemens C. J. Roothaan | 1960 | [10.1103/RevModPhys.32.186](https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.32.186) | | |
| | `task_rosenbluth_1998` | Poloidal Flow Driven by Ion-Temperature-Gradient Turbulence in Tokamaks | M. N. Rosenbluth, F. L. Hinton | 1998 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.724](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.724) | | |
| | `task_shvetsov_2016` | Semiclassical two-step model for strong-field ionization | N. I. Shvetsov-Shilovski et al. | 2016 | [10.1103/PhysRevA.94.013415](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.013415) | | |
| | `task_vautherin_1972` | Hartree-Fock Calculations with Skyrme's Interaction. I. Spherical Nuclei | D. Vautherin and D. M. Brink | 1972 | [10.1103/PhysRevC.5.626](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.5.626) | | |
| | `task_wang_2015` | Quantum Computation under Micromotion in a Planar Ion Crystal | S.-T. Wang, C. Shen, L.-M. Duan | 2015 | [10.1038/srep08555](https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08555) | | |
| | `task_white_1993` | Density-matrix algorithms for quantum renormalization groups | Steven R. White | 1993 | [10.1103/PhysRevB.48.10345](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.10345) | | |
| | `task_wu_2013` | Time-domain Perspective on Autler-Townes Splitting in Attosecond Transient Absorption | Mengxi Wu, Shaohao Chen, Mette B. Gaarde, Kenneth J. Schafer | 2013 | [10.1103/PhysRevA.88.043416](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.043416) | | |
| | `task_wu_2018` | Noise analysis for high-fidelity quantum entangling gates in an anharmonic linear Paul trap | Yukai Wu, Sheng-Tao Wang, L.-M. Duan | 2018 | [10.1103/PhysRevA.97.062325](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.97.062325) | | |
| | `task_wu_2021` | High-fidelity entangling gates in a three-dimensional ion crystal under micromotion | Y.-K. Wu, Z.-D. Liu, W.-D. Zhao, L.-M. Duan | 2021 | [10.1103/PhysRevA.103.022419](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.022419) | | |
| | `task_xie_2025` | Developing a linear fluid plasma model with accurate kinetic Bernstein waves: A first step | Huasheng Xie | 2025 | [10.1063/5.0274495](https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0274495) | | |
| | `task_xue_2023` | Generalized Quantum Measurements on a Higher-Dimensional System via Quantum Walks | Peng Xue | 2023 | [10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.150803](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.150803) | | |
| | `task_yee_1966` | Numerical Solution of Initial Boundary Value Problems Involving Maxwell's Equations in Isotropic Media | Kane S. Yee | 1966 | [10.1109/TAP.1966.1138693](https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.1966.1138693) | | |
| ## Notes | |
| - Paper Markdown was produced by automatic PDF conversion. Some image links | |
| point to external hosts or to figures that are not included. | |
| - Paper texts and figures remain the copyright of their original authors and | |
| publishers and are included solely for research evaluation. The MIT license | |
| applies to the task specifications (instructions, configurations, and index). | |