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NeutronGym: Physics-Graded Neutron Instrument Design for LLM Agents
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- NeutronGym is an executable environment where AI agents design neutron instruments, with physics-based grading via ray-tracing simulation and automated scoring.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building AI systems for scientific design tasks or evaluating whether language models grasp physics beyond memorization.
- Watch out
- Frontier models still outperform trained smaller models significantly. The environment's grading ladder is critical; without partial credit, performance drops 60 percentage points.
- agent
- llm
- edge
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