ASI-Bench
Tests whether AI can move from executing known methods to choosing methods and completing verifiable scientific research autonomously.
- AUTHOR
- Junwei Zhou et al.
- INSTITUTION
- University of Michigan et al.
- PUBLISHED
- 2026.08.18
60 project-level tasks across 11 scientific domains, built by 40+ experts over 31,000+ hours.
Four guidance levels progressively remove human methodology; artifacts run in sandboxes and are scored by validated evaluators.
Across 18 agent-model configurations, the mean score falls from 50.91 with full guidance to 29.10 with only a method name and 26.62 when the method must be selected autonomously.
It separates knowing how to execute research from deciding which research method to use.
Progressive Guidance Removal, Method Selection / Execution separation, Sandbox Execution.