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cs.CL2025

On Evaluating LLM Alignment by Evaluating LLMs as Judges

Yixin Liu, Pengfei Liu, Arman Cohan

Alignment with human preferences is an important evaluation aspect of LLMs, requiring them to be helpful, honest, safe, and to precisely follow human instructions. Evaluating large…

cs.DL2025

SciRAG: Adaptive, Citation-Aware, and Outline-Guided Retrieval and Synthesis for Scientific Literature

Hang Ding, Yilun Zhao, Tiansheng Hu +2

The accelerating growth of scientific publications has intensified the need for scalable, trustworthy systems to synthesize knowledge across diverse literature. While recent retrie…

cs.CL2025

Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks

Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou +39

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial for both assessing their capabilities and identifying safety or robustness issues prior to deployment. Reliably measuring abstrac…

cs.CL2025

AlphaResearch: Accelerating New Algorithm Discovery with Language Models

Zhaojian Yu, Kaiyue Feng, Yilun Zhao +3

LLMs have made significant progress in complex but easy-to-verify problems, yet they still struggle with discovering the unknown. In this paper, we present \textbf{AlphaResearch},…

cs.CL2025

LimRank: Less is More for Reasoning-Intensive Information Reranking

Tingyu Song, Yilun Zhao, Siyue Zhang +2

Existing approaches typically rely on large-scale fine-tuning to adapt LLMs for information reranking tasks, which is computationally expensive. In this work, we demonstrate that m…

cs.LG2025

FinTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Trustworthiness Evaluation in Finance Domain

Tiansheng Hu, Tongyan Hu, Liuyang Bai +3

Recent LLMs have demonstrated promising ability in solving finance related problems. However, applying LLMs in real-world finance application remains challenging due to its high ri…

cs.AI2025

PuzzlePlex: Benchmarking Foundation Models on Reasoning and Planning with Puzzles

Yitao Long, Yuru Jiang, Hongjun Liu +6

This work investigates the reasoning and planning capabilities of foundation models and their scalability in complex, dynamic environments. We introduce PuzzlePlex, a benchmark des…

cs.CL2025

FinLFQA: Evaluating Attributed Text Generation of LLMs in Financial Long-Form Question Answering

Yitao Long, Tiansheng Hu, Yilun Zhao +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate to long-form questions, producing plausible yet factually incorrect answers. A common mitigation strategy is to provide attribut…

cs.IR2025

MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval

Siyue Zhang, Yuan Gao, Xiao Zhou +5

We introduce MRMR, the first expert-level multidisciplinary multimodal retrieval benchmark requiring intensive reasoning. MRMR contains 1,502 queries spanning 23 domains, with posi…

cs.CL2025

DyFlow: Dynamic Workflow Framework for Agentic Reasoning

Yanbo Wang, Zixiang Xu, Yue Huang +9

Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in complex reasoning tasks, but building efficient and generalizable workflows remains a major challe…

cs.CL2025

From Scores to Steps: Diagnosing and Improving LLM Performance in Evidence-Based Medical Calculations

Benlu Wang, Iris Xia, Yifan Zhang +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on medical benchmarks; however, their ability to perform medical calculations, a crucial aspect of clinical dec…

cs.CL2025

MSRS: Evaluating Multi-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Rohan Phanse, Yijie Zhou, Kejian Shi +4

Retrieval-augmented systems are typically evaluated in settings where information required to answer the query can be found within a single source or the answer is short-form or fa…

cs.CL2025

Ref-Long: Benchmarking the Long-context Referencing Capability of Long-context Language Models

Junjie Wu, Gefei Gu, Yanan Zheng +2

Long-context language models (LCLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities in long-context understanding tasks. Among these, long-context referencing -- a crucial task that requir…

cs.CL2025

Demystifying Scientific Problem-Solving in LLMs by Probing Knowledge and Reasoning

Alan Li, Yixin Liu, Arpan Sarkar +2

Scientific problem solving poses unique challenges for LLMs, requiring both deep domain knowledge and the ability to apply such knowledge through complex reasoning. While automated…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

AI Scientists for Building Virtual-Cell Models

Xiangru Tang, Zhuoyun Yu, Jiapeng Chen +12

Autonomous agents, from virtual laboratories to biological data-analysis agents and co-scientists, have begun to turn scientific goals into hypotheses. Whether they can go further…

cs.CL2025

AbGen: Evaluating Large Language Models in Ablation Study Design and Evaluation for Scientific Research

Yilun Zhao, Weiyuan Chen, Zhijian Xu +5

We introduce AbGen, the first benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in designing ablation studies for scientific research. AbGen consists of 1,500 expert-annotate…

cs.CL2025

Can Multimodal Foundation Models Understand Schematic Diagrams? An Empirical Study on Information-Seeking QA over Scientific Papers

Yilun Zhao, Chengye Wang, Chuhan Li +1

This paper introduces MISS-QA, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of models to interpret schematic diagrams within scientific literature. MISS-QA com…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Identify Critical Limitations within Scientific Research? A Systematic Evaluation on AI Research Papers

Zhijian Xu, Yilun Zhao, Manasi Patwardhan +2

Peer review is fundamental to scientific research, but the growing volume of publications has intensified the challenges of this expertise-intensive process. While LLMs show promis…

cs.CL2025

SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks

Yilun Zhao, Kaiyan Zhang, Tiansheng Hu +15

We present SciArena, an open and collaborative platform for evaluating foundation models on scientific literature-grounded tasks. Unlike traditional benchmarks for scientific liter…

cs.CL2025

SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification

Chengye Wang, Yifei Shen, Zexi Kuang +2

We introduce SciVer, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of foundation models to verify claims within a multimodal scientific context. SciVer consists…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

SUCEA: Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval for Adversarial Fact-checking through Claim Decomposition and Editing

Hongjun Liu, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan +1

Automatic fact-checking has recently received more attention as a means of combating misinformation. Despite significant advancements, fact-checking systems based on retrieval-augm…

cs.CL2025

MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application

Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang +44

Real-world financial analysis involves information across multiple languages and modalities, from reports and news to scanned filings and meeting recordings. Yet most existing eval…

cs.AI2025

MIR: Methodology Inspiration Retrieval for Scientific Research Problems

Aniketh Garikaparthi, Manasi Patwardhan, Aditya Sanjiv Kanade +3

There has been a surge of interest in harnessing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to accelerate scientific discovery. While existing approaches rely on gr…

cs.AI2025

IRIS: Interactive Research Ideation System for Accelerating Scientific Discovery

Aniketh Garikaparthi, Manasi Patwardhan, Lovekesh Vig +1

The rapid advancement in capabilities of large language models (LLMs) raises a pivotal question: How can LLMs accelerate scientific discovery? This work tackles the crucial first s…