BioEVAL: A global, multi-institutional benchmark of large language and multimodal models for bioengineering
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated historic breakthroughs in general reasoning with early successes in biomedical science.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated historic breakthroughs in general reasoning with early successes in biomedical science. However, existing LLM benchmarking emphasizes factual recall, offering limited insight into model performance on frontier and multimodal tasks. We assembled BioEVAL (BioEngineering Validation of AI and LLMs), a global, multi-institutional initiative designed to assess experimental reasoning capability across bioengineering (BE) subfields. BioEVAL spans 11 major BE subfields plus a set of uncategorized items, bringing together 22 research groups to create a PhD-level benchmark comprising 608 evaluation items: 1) 380 multiple-choice questions (MCQs, 359 retained after audit), 2) 218 literature synthesis tasks, and 3) 10 multimodal problems with experimental image interpretation. Benchmark items underwent authoring-group expert review and centralized quality control before evaluation. Following evaluation, a blinded cross-group consensus audit of the highest- and lowest-accuracy MCQ items flagged 21 questions for revision or removal; these were withheld, and all reported MCQ results are computed on the 359 retained items.
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