DFT-Agent Bench: Scaffold Effects and Execution Provenance in Autonomous DFT
Shijie Liu, Jin Yang, Weilin Wan, Jingtao Han, Jia LI, Tianqi Deng
原文摘要
Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents for first-principles materials simulation. We report empirical findings from DFT-Agent Bench, a benchmark of 200+ Quantum ESPRESSO tasks spanning relaxation, electronic structure, equation-of-state, and elastic-tensor pipelines over multiple material tiers. Each task carries a QE-derived ground truth with public-reference cross-checks where available, and a provenance audit checks whether the required QE execution contract was met. Under one execution harness, we compare a near-bare ReAct baseline with a bundled v5.1 scaffold on two models. The complete scaffold improves bands+DOS by +0.08/+0.11 and d-electron vc-relax by +0.17 on both models, while high-scoring relaxation and equation-of-state cells leave little room for improvement. The elastic result is model-dependent (0.18 to 0.40 for deepseek-v4-pro and 0.62 to 0.59 for claude-opus-4-8). A fixed 100-task analysis with retrieval disabled supports the aggregate pattern: the fully frozen DeepSeek comparison gains +0.17, while the Opus comparison gains +0.10 against a historical pool baseline (p < 0.001). The provenance gate catches incomplete or unmarked executions that can receive high rubric scores; it is an execution-contract check, not a test for intentional fraud. These results characterize the evaluated DFT workflows. The anonymous review artifact contains the frozen diagnostic slice, prompts, scorer, and solver revisions: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/231e31re91287h/README.md.
cs.AI · cond-mat.mtrl-sci