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New benchmark shows SQL execution boosts RAG accuracy for quantitative materials science research

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A new benchmark for structured retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in perovskite photovoltaics has been developed, focusing on quantitative answers derived from experimental data rather than qualitative text overlap. This benchmark utilizes a dataset of over 45,000 device records and passages from more than 25,000 papers. When tested with six retrieval architectures and a 14B model, standard passage retrieval achieved only 16-23% accuracy, while RAG models equipped with read-only SQL execution over a structured device table reached over 51% accuracy. This highlights the necessity of systematic table extraction for large-scale quantitative research in materials science. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates the critical need for structured data extraction and SQL capabilities to enable quantitative research in scientific literature.

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New benchmark shows SQL execution boosts RAG accuracy for quantitative materials science research

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Gaoxiang Yuan ·

    Benchmark for Structured Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Perovskite Photovoltaics

    While retrieval-augmented language models increasingly serve as literature assistants in the physical sciences, existing benchmarks evaluate them primarily on qualitative text overlap or through model-based scoring rather than against verified experimental ground truth. In experi…

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