LEAPBench shows trajectory scoring changes best-model rankings on 53% of tasks, LLMs do not beat Bayesian optimization, and domain-aware prompting underperforms domain-agnostic on biology tasks aligned with published literature.
A.17 Threshold sensitivity of the audit’s main result The audit selects 6 literature-divergent biology tasks using two gap criteria connected by an OR: (R)top-1 vs
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LEAP: Trajectory-Level Evaluation of LLMs in Iterative Scientific Design
LEAPBench shows trajectory scoring changes best-model rankings on 53% of tasks, LLMs do not beat Bayesian optimization, and domain-aware prompting underperforms domain-agnostic on biology tasks aligned with published literature.