ScholarBench: A Bilingual Benchmark for Abstraction, Comprehension, and Reasoning Evaluation in Academic Contexts (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | ScholarBench evaluates domain-specific knowledge of large language models (LLMs) prior benchmarks lack the scalability to handle complex academic tasks. |
| Approach: | ScholarBench evaluates the academic reasoning ability of large language models . the benchmark is constructed through a three-step process . |
| Outcome: | ScholarBench evaluates the academic reasoning ability of large language models . the benchmark comprises 5,031 examples in Korean and 5,309 examples in English . |
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