审计AI同行评审员:基于真实科学论文的基准
Auditing AI peer reviewers: a benchmark on real scientific papers
Íñigo Zubeldia, Boris Bolliet, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Miles Cranmer
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作者构建了一个在真实论文中注入可定位错误的基准,用于按错误类型和严重程度衡量LLM审稿系统的检出率与误报率,并提出多智能体审稿系统Skepthical。
cs.CL · astro-ph.IM · cs.AI · cs.DL
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LLM-based peer review is now used at production scale, but its evaluation remains limited. We introduce a benchmark that injects objective, localisable errors of four types (general issues, mathematics, numerics, citations) at three severity levels into real papers and measures each reviewer's detection rate by error type and severity, together with its false-positive rate on clean copies. We also present Skepthical, a multi-agent reviewer that verifies citation-backed claims by retrieving the cited papers, mathematics with computer algebra, and numerical claims with executed code. We apply the benchmark to two corpora of 15 recent arXiv preprints each, one in astrophysics and one in machine learning (ML), injecting a total of 357 errors, and evaluate twelve reviewer systems: six single-LLM reviewers, two Claude Code configurations, three publicly available reviewers, and Skepthical. The choice of model has the largest impact on detection rate: given the same prompt, three frontier LLMs differ by about 50 percentage points in total detection on both corpora. Tools and scaffolding help when they contribute what the model cannot supply on its own. In particular, on astrophysics, Claude Code improves on a single Claude call in mathematics and numerics detection, and enforced citation retrieval gives Skepthical the highest citation error detection rate of all systems by a large margin. This citation lead, however, is not observed on ML, where the models appear to know the literature better and Skepthical's citation detection rate is statistically indistinguishable from that of the best single LLM. False-positive rates are below 10% for most systems, but vary with prompt, model, and scaffolding, with mathematics flags the main source of false positives. The evaluation pipeline, the injected errors, and the adjudication logs are released as a benchmark.