@article{beyondfinalscoresasystematicevaluationof, title = {Beyond Final Scores: A Systematic Evaluation of Agents for Long-Horizon AI Research and Development}, author = {Yiwei Li and Wanli Yang and Hexiang Tan and Xiangzhou Huang and Zhengyu Chen and Ziran Li and Borun Chen and Shanglin Lei and Huaisheng Zhu and Hao Tian and Fei Sun and Xunliang Cai and Jingang Wang}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.13417}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13417}, }