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Aug 11, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

MLS‑Bench: A New Benchmark That Strips Away the Illusion of AI Research Gains

The MLS‑Bench benchmark introduces 140 executable research tasks across twelve ML domains to rigorously attribute performance gains to genuine method discovery rather than engineering tricks, revealing that current large‑model agents excel at component recombination but still lag in proposing truly novel, transferable algorithms.