ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research

Published in arXiv preprint; submitted to AAAI 2027, 2026

ResearchClawBench evaluates AI systems on end-to-end autonomous scientific research rather than isolated research subtasks. Its 40 tasks span 10 scientific domains, with each task grounded in a real published paper and evaluated using expert-curated multimodal rubrics.

Evaluation

  • Seven autonomous-research agents are evaluated under a unified protocol.
  • Seventeen native large language models are evaluated through ResearchHarness.
  • Error analysis focuses on experimental-protocol mismatch, evidence mismatch, and missing scientific core.

Recommended citation: Xu, W., et al. (including Wu, K.) (2026). "ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research." arXiv preprint. Submitted to AAAI 2027.
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