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APS-Bench

Science & ResearchKnowledge & Reasoning

APS-Bench is a 50-question QA dataset with auditable gold answers for evaluating retrieval-augmented generation over scientific facility operations knowledge.

Released
2026-07-27
Readiness
Paper only
Primary field
Science & Research

Why it matters

It addresses the need for evaluating RAG systems on niche institutional knowledge, but its small scale and facility-specific scope limit broader utility.

Motivation

Scientific user facilities accumulate decades of operational knowledge that no single search index covers: electronic logbooks, technical documents, internal wikis, operations chat messages, maintenance records, and live control-system data.

Primary resources

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