AbGen: Evaluating Large Language Models in Ablation Study Design and Evaluation for Scientific Research

ACL '25 2025 24.9 benchmark

Read-first score

Read-first score 24.9, weighted from topical fit, citation, graph, method, reproducibility, and recency signals.

Recency 11%

86.7

Uses a gentle age decay so recent papers surface without erasing older foundations. 2025

Reproducibility 33%

Screens links and visible text for paper, code, dataset, artifact, and repository signals. pdf=True; code=False; dataset=False; markers=none

Topical relevance 56%

9.5

Matches configured research keywords against title, abstract, tags, and analysis text. matched=2

Frontier

Stability: volatile; rank range: 17.