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Human–AI performance tradeoffs in RE-Bench
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AI agents outperform humans at short time budgets but not longer ones
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AI agents outperform humans at short time budgets but not longer ones
In RE-Bench, the best AI agents scored 4× higher than human experts at a 2-hour budget, yet humans demonstrated better returns to extended effort and surpassed agents at both 8-hour and 32-hour time budgets.
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Best AI agents scored 4× higher than humans at a 2-hour budget, but humans had better returns to longer budgets and exceeded agents at 8-hour and 32-hour settings.
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RE-Bench : evaluate frontier AI agents on realistic ML research-engineering envs against human experts. 7 challenging, open-ended ML research-engineering environments. Each environment = (scoring function, starting solution, reference solution); each can be run with 8 or fewer H100 GPUs. Examples: optimize a kernel, run a scaling-law experiment, fix an embedding, fine-tune GPT-2 for QA, etc. Includes data from 71 eight-hour attempts by 61 distinct human experts. Human experts achieved non-zero score in 82% of 8-hour attempts; 24% matched or exceeded strong reference solutions.
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