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Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research

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TL;DR - Replica is a scalable benchmark and training environment for AI agents that reproduce published research. Post-trained on it, the 27B-parameter Faraday agent outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on held-out replication tasks.

  • Replica frames paper replication as hypothesis-driven, long-horizon scientific work.
  • An automatically generated rubric-based judge provides low-noise rewards aligned with human assessments.
  • Faraday delegates coding work to coding agents used as tools.
  • Rollout analysis suggests Faraday follows a more scientifically principled replication process.

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Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research

arXiv cs.LG Damon Falck, Samer Sabri, Anja Surina, Thom Foster, Anya Sims, Sam Devlin, Dylan Rogers, Tantum Collins, Kaloyan Aleksiev, Louis Kirsch, Edward Hughes 2026-08-13 arXiv:2608.13331
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TL;DR - Replica is a scalable benchmark and training environment for AI agents that reproduce published research. Post-trained on it, the 27B-parameter Faraday agent outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on held-out replication tasks.

  • Replica frames paper replication as hypothesis-driven, long-horizon scientific work.
  • An automatically generated rubric-based judge provides low-noise rewards aligned with human assessments.
  • Faraday delegates coding work to coding agents used as tools.
  • Rollout analysis suggests Faraday follows a more scientifically principled replication process.
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