PIRSA:25080025

Status and Prospects of AI Reasoning in Theoretical Physics

(2025). Status and Prospects of AI Reasoning in Theoretical Physics. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/25080025

Status and Prospects of AI Reasoning in Theoretical Physics. Perimeter Institute, Aug. 26, 2025, https://pirsa.org/25080025 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:25080025,
            doi = {10.48660/25080025},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/25080025},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Cosmology, Particle Physics, Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Status and Prospects of AI Reasoning in Theoretical Physics},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2025},
            month = {aug},
            note = {PIRSA:25080025 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
Moritz Munchmeyer
Talk numberPIRSA:25080025
DOI10.48660/25080025
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

I will give a brief review of how large-language models are now being used for theoretical physics research. I will show the rapid progress of these models at the example of the TPBench benchmark, and present our recent work on improving their reliability with a symbolic verification agent and test-time scaling techniques. I will also discuss whether these models are truly reasoning and speculate how we might improve their performance in our field in the future.