SciR: A Controllable Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning in LLMs
Three paradigmatic forms of inference recur across scientific reasoning: deduction, induction, and causal abduction. Reliably evaluating LLMs on these in scientific settings is currently out of reach: scientific benchmarks built on human annotations are costly and lack mechanistic ground truth, while synthetic logical-reasoning benchmarks do not resemble real scientific documents. We introduce SciR, a benchmark that combines multi-paradigm reasoning with controllable scientific rendering, anchored on three paradigmatic scientific problems. Tasks are generated from formal objects (deduction tree, inductive rule hypothesis, causal graph) to guarantee verifiable answers, then rendered into m...
| Authors | Pierre Beckmann, Marco Valentino, Andre Freitas |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 11 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 25 September 2026 |
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