arXiv AI September 7, 2026 By Shenxi Wu, Yuhong Liu, Haosong Zhang, Tongjin Zou, Yanxun Zhang, Gaochang Chen, Dun Liang, Jiaqi Wang, Zhecan James Wang, Yuhang Zang, Dahua Lin

SciDocBench: A Workflow-Centered Benchmark and Data Pipeline for Scientific Document Understanding

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SciDocBench is a workflow-centered benchmark for scientific document understanding that includes 124 expert-authored questions across seven capability groups and 19 subtasks in five scientific domains. Each question is evaluated under four conditions—English or Chinese, all-images-first or interleaved document representations—resulting in 496 evaluation instances. The benchmark is paired with SciDocIR, a typed evidence-graph representation, and SciDocDataset, a collection of 15K fine-tuning and 8K reinforcement-learning samples, forming an evaluation-to-training framework for scientific-document assistants.

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