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OPENXRD: A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for LLM/MLLM XRD Question Answering

Ali Vosoughi, Ayoub Shahnazari, Yufeng Xi, Zeliang Zhang +3 more

Published

Jul 12, 2025

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

15% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Domain Experts

Signals refreshed

Mar 10, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering. The framework measures context assimilation, or how models use fixed, domain-specific supporting information during inference. The framework includes 217 expert-curated X-ray diffraction (XRD) questions covering fundamental to advanced crystallographic concepts, each evaluated under closed-book (without context) and open-book (with context) conditions, where the latter includes concise reference passages generated by GPT-4.5 and refined by crystallography experts. We benchmark 74 state-of-the-art LLMs and MLLMs, including GPT-4, GPT-5, O-series, LLaVA, LLaMA, QWEN, Mistral, and Gemini families, to quantify how different architectures and scales assimilate external knowledge. Results show that mid-sized models (7B--70B parameters) gain the most from contextual materials, while very large models often show saturation or interference and the largest relative gains appear in small and mid-sized models. Expert-reviewed materials provide significantly higher improvements than AI-generated ones even when token counts are matched, confirming that content quality, not quantity, drives performance. OPENXRD offers a reproducible diagnostic benchmark for assessing reasoning, knowledge integration, and guidance sensitivity in scientific domains, and provides a foundation for future multimodal and retrieval-augmented crystallography systems.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering."

Rater Population

partial

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"The framework includes 217 expert-curated X-ray diffraction (XRD) questions covering fundamental to advanced crystallographic concepts, each evaluated under closed-book (without context) and open-book (with context) conditions, where the latter includes concise reference passages generated by GPT-4.5 and refined by crystallography experts."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Domain Experts
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering.
  • The framework measures context assimilation, or how models use fixed, domain-specific supporting information during inference.
  • The framework includes 217 expert-curated X-ray diffraction (XRD) questions covering fundamental to advanced crystallographic concepts, each evaluated under closed-book (without context) and open-book (with context) conditions, where the latter includes concise reference passages generated by GPT-4.5 and refined by crystallography experts.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering.
  • We benchmark 74 state-of-the-art LLMs and MLLMs, including GPT-4, GPT-5, O-series, LLaVA, LLaMA, QWEN, Mistral, and Gemini families, to quantify how different architectures and scales assimilate external knowledge.
  • OPENXRD offers a reproducible diagnostic benchmark for assessing reasoning, knowledge integration, and guidance sensitivity in scientific domains, and provides a foundation for future multimodal and retrieval-augmented crystallography…

Why it matters for eval

  • We introduce OPENXRD, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for evaluating large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) in crystallography question answering.
  • We benchmark 74 state-of-the-art LLMs and MLLMs, including GPT-4, GPT-5, O-series, LLaVA, LLaMA, QWEN, Mistral, and Gemini families, to quantify how different architectures and scales assimilate external knowledge.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.