SciEvalKit: An Open-source Evaluation Toolkit for Scientific General Intelligence
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How can we systematically evaluate AI models’ general scientific intelligence across multidisciplinary domains? This paper introduces the first open-source evaluation toolkit specifically designed for scientific general intelligence, covering six core disciplines—including physics, chemistry, and astronomy—and defining seven fundamental scientific intelligence capabilities (e.g., multimodal reasoning, symbolic computation, scientific code generation, and hypothesis formulation). Methodologically, it constructs an expert-curated benchmark from authentic disciplinary data and proposes a scalable evaluation paradigm jointly driven by capability orientation and disciplinary diversity. The toolkit implements a modular evaluation pipeline, supports batched cross-model and cross-dataset assessment, offers customizable interfaces, and delivers standardized visual reporting. It significantly enhances evaluation transparency, reproducibility, and comparability. Open-sourced and already adopted by multiple institutions, it facilitates standardized benchmarking of next-generation scientific foundation models and advances the standardization of AI4Science evaluation. (149 words)
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📝 Abstract
We introduce SciEvalKit, a unified benchmarking toolkit designed to evaluate AI models for science across a broad range of scientific disciplines and task capabilities. Unlike general-purpose evaluation platforms, SciEvalKit focuses on the core competencies of scientific intelligence, including Scientific Multimodal Perception, Scientific Multimodal Reasoning, Scientific Multimodal Understanding, Scientific Symbolic Reasoning, Scientific Code Generation, Science Hypothesis Generation and Scientific Knowledge Understanding. It supports six major scientific domains, spanning from physics and chemistry to astronomy and materials science. SciEvalKit builds a foundation of expert-grade scientific benchmarks, curated from real-world, domain-specific datasets, ensuring that tasks reflect authentic scientific challenges. The toolkit features a flexible, extensible evaluation pipeline that enables batch evaluation across models and datasets, supports custom model and dataset integration, and provides transparent, reproducible, and comparable results. By bridging capability-based evaluation and disciplinary diversity, SciEvalKit offers a standardized yet customizable infrastructure to benchmark the next generation of scientific foundation models and intelligent agents. The toolkit is open-sourced and actively maintained to foster community-driven development and progress in AI4Science.
Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Evaluates AI models across diverse scientific disciplines and tasks.
Focuses on core scientific competencies like multimodal reasoning and understanding.
Provides a standardized, extensible toolkit for benchmarking scientific foundation models.
Innovation
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Open-source toolkit for evaluating scientific AI models
Flexible pipeline supporting custom model and dataset integration
Standardized infrastructure for benchmarking across six scientific domains
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