Benchmarking Foundation Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Olympic-Level Physics Problem Solving

arXiv:2510.00919v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with foundation models has achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, but their capacity for expert-level reasoning-such as solving Olympiad-level physics problems-remains largely unexplored. Inspired by the way students prepare for competitions by reviewing past problems, we investigate the potential of RAG to enhance physics reasoning in foundation models. We introduce PhoPile, a high-quality