“MLE-Bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering”, 2024-10-09 (; similar):
[blog] We introduce MLE-bench, a benchmark for measuring how well AI agents perform at machine learning engineering. To this end, we curate 75 ML engineering-related competitions from Kaggle, creating a diverse set of challenging tasks that test real-world ML engineering skills such as training models, preparing datasets, and running experiments.
We establish human baselines for each competition using Kaggle’s publicly available leaderboards. We use open-source agent scaffolds to evaluate several frontier language models on our benchmark, finding that the best-performing setup—OpenAI’s
o1-previewwith AIDE scaffolding—achieves at least the level of a Kaggle bronze medal in 16.9% of competitions.In addition to our main results, we investigate various forms of resource scaling for AI agents and the impact of contamination from pre-training. We open-source our benchmark code (github.com/openai/mle-bench/) to facilitate future research in understanding the ML engineering capabilities of AI agents.