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ML-Dev-Bench: Comparative Analysis of AI Agents on ML development workflows

3 Feb 2025arXiv:2502.00964archive 2025-07-28

Harshith Padigela, Chintan Shah, Dinkar Juyal

In this report, we present ML-Dev-Bench, a benchmark aimed at testing agentic capabilities on applied Machine Learning development tasks. While existing benchmarks focus on isolated coding tasks or Kaggle-style competitions, ML-Dev-Bench tests agents' ability to handle the full complexity of ML development workflows. The benchmark assesses performance across critical aspects including dataset handling, model training, improving existing models, debugging, and API integration with popular ML tools. We evaluate three agents - ReAct, Openhands, and AIDE - on a diverse set of 30 tasks, providing insights into their strengths and limitations in handling practical ML development challenges. We open source the benchmark for the benefit of the community at \href{https://github.com/ml-dev-bench/ml-dev-bench}{https://github.com/ml-dev-bench/ml-dev-bench}.

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