EpiBench: Benchmarking Multi-turn Research Workflows for Multimodal Agents
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| author | Dong, Xuan Zheng, Huanyang Niu, Tianhao Han, Zhe Li, Pengzhan Liu, Bofei Liu, Zhengyang Li, Guancheng Zhu, Qingfu Che, Wanxiang |
| author_facet | Dong, Xuan Zheng, Huanyang Niu, Tianhao Han, Zhe Li, Pengzhan Liu, Bofei Liu, Zhengyang Li, Guancheng Zhu, Qingfu Che, Wanxiang |
| contents | Scientific research follows multi-turn, multi-step workflows that require proactively searching the literature, consulting figures and tables, and integrating evidence across papers to align experimental settings and support reproducible conclusions. This joint capability is not systematically assessed in existing benchmarks, which largely under-evaluate proactive search, multi-evidence integration and sustained evidence use over time. In this work, we introduce EpiBench, an episodic multi-turn multimodal benchmark that instantiates short research workflows. Given a research task, agents must navigate across papers over multiple turns, align evidence from figures and tables, and use the accumulated evidence in the memory to answer objective questions that require cross paper comparisons and multi-figure integration. EpiBench introduces a process-level evaluation framework for fine-grained testing and diagnosis of research agents. Our experiments show that even the leading model achieves an accuracy of only 29.23% on the hard split, indicating substantial room for improvement in multi-turn, multi-evidence research workflows, providing an evaluation platform for verifiable and reproducible research agents. |
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| spellingShingle | EpiBench: Benchmarking Multi-turn Research Workflows for Multimodal Agents Dong, Xuan Zheng, Huanyang Niu, Tianhao Han, Zhe Li, Pengzhan Liu, Bofei Liu, Zhengyang Li, Guancheng Zhu, Qingfu Che, Wanxiang Computation and Language Scientific research follows multi-turn, multi-step workflows that require proactively searching the literature, consulting figures and tables, and integrating evidence across papers to align experimental settings and support reproducible conclusions. This joint capability is not systematically assessed in existing benchmarks, which largely under-evaluate proactive search, multi-evidence integration and sustained evidence use over time. In this work, we introduce EpiBench, an episodic multi-turn multimodal benchmark that instantiates short research workflows. Given a research task, agents must navigate across papers over multiple turns, align evidence from figures and tables, and use the accumulated evidence in the memory to answer objective questions that require cross paper comparisons and multi-figure integration. EpiBench introduces a process-level evaluation framework for fine-grained testing and diagnosis of research agents. Our experiments show that even the leading model achieves an accuracy of only 29.23% on the hard split, indicating substantial room for improvement in multi-turn, multi-evidence research workflows, providing an evaluation platform for verifiable and reproducible research agents. |
| title | EpiBench: Benchmarking Multi-turn Research Workflows for Multimodal Agents |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05557 |