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Shijie Liu, Jin Yang, Weilin Wan, Jingtao Han, Jia LI, Tianqi Deng

DFT-Agent Bench evaluates autonomous agents that run density-functional-theory simulations, comparing a near-bare workflow with a bundled specialist package and auditing required execution checks. In a fixed, retrieval-disabled, 100-task DeepSeek comparison, the frozen package scored 0.88 versus 0.71 for the baseline, a paired gain of 0.17. This package-level result applies to a predefined diagnostic slice, not general performance.

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