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SGSimEval: A Comprehensive Multifaceted and Similarity-Enhanced Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation Systems

arXiv 2025 51.4 method

TLDR

SGSimEval is a benchmark for evaluating automatic survey generation systems using multifaceted metrics including human preference and similarity.

Reasoning

The paper addresses limitations in existing evaluation methods for automatic survey generation by proposing a comprehensive benchmark that integrates outline, content, and reference assessments with LLM-based and quantitative metrics. Its strength lies in introducing human preference metrics and demonstrating consistency with human judgments, but it is narrowly focused on survey generation rather than broader scientific discovery.

Read-first score

Read-first score 51.4, weighted from topical fit, citation, graph, method, reproducibility, and recency signals. Original total remains 48.

Recency 8%
86.7

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

Methodology quality 25%
80

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Topical relevance 42%
40

Uses existing LLM keyword relevance scores normalized to 0-100. AI scientist,automated scientific discovery,autonomous research agent,automated research,literature review agent,survey generation,automated experimentation,experiment design agent,AI for scientific research,paper writing agent,research automation,scientific discovery agent

Reproducibility 25%
30

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Field roles

FrontierBridgeMethodology anchor

Rank sensitivity

Stability: volatile; rank range: 24.

Keyword Scores

survey generation
10
literature review agent
7
paper writing agent
6
automated research
5
research automation
5
AI for scientific research
4
automated scientific discovery
3
AI scientist
2
autonomous research agent
2
scientific discovery agent
2
automated experimentation
1
experiment design agent
1

Deep Analysis

Innovations

  • Proposes SGSimEval, a comprehensive multifaceted benchmark for automatic survey generation evaluation that integrates outline, content, and reference assessments.
  • Combines LLM-based scoring with quantitative metrics to create a similarity-enhanced evaluation framework.
  • Introduces human preference metrics that emphasize both inherent quality and similarity to human-generated surveys.

Methodology

SGSimEval evaluates automatic survey generation systems by assessing the outline, content, and references using a combination of LLM-based scoring and quantitative metrics, and incorporates human preference metrics that measure similarity to human surveys. Extensive experiments compare current ASG systems against human performance.

Key Results

Current ASG systems achieve human-comparable performance in outline generation but show significant room for improvement in content and reference generation; the proposed evaluation metrics maintain strong consistency with human assessments.

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