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An Axiomatic Benchmark for Evaluation of Scientific Novelty Metrics

ChengXiang Zhai, Miri Liu

No single metric satisfies all axioms for scientific novelty, but combining complementary architectures reaches 90.1 percent compliance.

arxiv:2604.15145 v2 · 2026-04-16 · cs.AI · cs.DL

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C1strongest claim

Combining metrics of complementary architectures leads to consistent improvements on the benchmark, with per-axiom weighting achieving 90.1% versus 71.5% for the best individual metric.

C2weakest assumption

The axioms defined capture the essential aspects of human scientific norms for novelty, and the ten tasks across three AI domains sufficiently represent the general problem of evaluating scientific novelty.

C3one line summary

An axiomatic benchmark shows no single novelty metric satisfies all desired properties consistently, but combining complementary metrics reaches 90.1% performance versus 71.5% for the best individual metric.

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arxiv: 2604.15145 · arxiv_version: 2604.15145v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.15145 · pith_short_12: DPQ22QU65CCC · pith_short_16: DPQ22QU65CCC35XG · pith_short_8: DPQ22QU6

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