Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Recent progress in large language model (LLM) reasoning has focused on domains like mathematics and coding, where abundant highquality data and objective evaluation metrics are readily available.In contrast, progress in scientific reasoning remains limited in domains such as medicine and materials science due to restricted dataset coverage and the inherent complexity of open-ended scientific questions.To address these challenges, we propose a general framework for sustainable scientific reasoning QA generation, and introduce WildSci, a new dataset of domain-specific science questions automatically synthesized from peer-reviewed literature, spanning 9 scientific disciplines and 26 subdomains.WildSci enables scalable training with well-defined reward signals in a multiple-choice format.We further apply reinforcement learning to finetune models on WildSci and analyze the resulting training dynamics, including domain-specific performance changes, response behaviors, and generalization trends.Experiments on a suite of scientific benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and dataset.We release WildSci to enable scalable and sustainable research in scientific reasoning.Table 1: Comparison of training datasets by source type, domain coverage, size, question length, and originality.'New?' indicates whether questions are newly generated or parsed from existing corpora.
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Language: English
Topic: Topic Modeling
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7166822373