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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · May 277/10

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Composition Collapse: Stable Factual Knowledge Does Not Imply Compositional Reasoning

Researchers reveal that AI models can possess stable factual knowledge while failing dramatically at compositional reasoning—assembling facts into logical chains—a problem invisible to standard benchmark metrics. The study introduces a diagnostic protocol showing post-training improvements mask directional shifts in composition capability, with failures often rooted in generation-time constraints rather than fundamental model limitations.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 117/10

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Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

Researchers introduce a scenario-grounded benchmark for evaluating large language models in scientific discovery, revealing significant performance gaps compared to general science benchmarks. The framework tests LLMs across biology, chemistry, materials, and physics through project-level tasks involving hypothesis generation and experimental design, showing that current models remain distant from achieving general scientific superintelligence despite demonstrating promise in specific applications.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 126/10

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DiagnosticIQ: A Benchmark for LLM-Based Industrial Maintenance Action Recommendation from Symbolic Rules

Researchers introduce DiagnosticIQ, a benchmark dataset of 6,690 expert-validated questions testing whether large language models can recommend maintenance actions based on industrial sensor rules. Evaluation of 29 LLMs reveals that while frontier models perform well on standard tasks, they exhibit significant brittleness—losing 13-60% accuracy under minor perturbations and pattern-matching rather than reasoning when conditions are inverted.