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arxiv: 2605.17104 · v1 · pith:AX6L3VDCnew · submitted 2026-05-16 · 💻 cs.AI

Scientific Logicality Enriched Methodology for LLM Reasoning: A Practice in Physics

Zhaoxin Yu , Nan Xu , Kun Chen , Jiahao Zhao , Lei Wang , Wenji Mao This is my paper

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keywords LLM reasoningscientific logicalityphysics problemstraining methodologylogical faithfulnessreasoning stepsscientific problem solving
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Enriching LLM training with scientific logicality criteria improves reasoning validity and performance on physics problems.

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The paper examines how large language models reason through scientific questions and argues that logicality, meaning the rational validity of each reasoning step, has been overlooked in favor of longer or larger datasets. The authors create assessment criteria to measure this logicality and develop sampling methods to build training data that prioritizes it. They extract physics problems from academic literature to form a high-quality dataset and test the approach on three different backbone LLMs. Experiments indicate that the new data raises the logical quality of model outputs and that this quality directly aids correct problem solving. A sympathetic reader would see this as evidence that structuring training around internal reasoning soundness can make LLMs more dependable for scientific work.

Core claim

By defining assessment criteria for scientific logicality and using logicality-guided sampling to construct training data from physics problems in the literature, the authors show that training on this data raises the logical faithfulness of LLM reasoning steps and that the resulting logicality is essential for successfully solving scientific problems.

What carries the argument

Scientific logicality-enriched methodology, consisting of assessment criteria that judge the rational validity of reasoning steps and data sampling methods that select examples exhibiting strong logicality for guided training.

If this is right

  • The constructed dataset raises scientific logicality scores in reasoning outputs from three different LLMs.
  • Higher logicality directly contributes to better performance on scientific problem-solving tasks.
  • The methodology works with physics as a test case that features varied logical structures and formalisms.
  • Both logical faithfulness and overall task accuracy increase when training emphasizes step-by-step rational validity.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same criteria and sampling approach could be adapted to build training sets for other sciences such as chemistry or biology.
  • Models trained this way may produce fewer invalid intermediate steps when deriving equations or analyzing experimental data.
  • Combining logicality-guided data with existing chain-of-thought methods might produce further gains on multi-step problems.
  • Testing the trained models on problems drawn from sources outside the original literature would reveal whether the gains generalize.

Load-bearing premise

The authors' assessment criteria for scientific logicality measure a genuine and independent feature of valid reasoning rather than simply reflecting patterns in the selected training examples.

What would settle it

Training the same LLMs on the new dataset and then evaluating them on held-out physics problems yields no measurable gain in either expert-rated logical consistency of reasoning chains or final answer accuracy compared with baseline training.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17104 by Jiahao Zhao, Kun Chen, Lei Wang, Nan Xu, Wenji Mao, Zhaoxin Yu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of the scientific reasoning paradigms between DeepSeek-R1 and a professional (human): LLM lacks the scientific logicality possessed by human experts. hoc aggregation of recall, review, and self-reflection steps with lengthy iterations and relatively weak logical coherence between them. In this paper, we conduct the first systematic investigation into the internal logicality underlying LLM scient… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Assessment criteria for the scientific reasoning of LLMs, encompassing three dimensions: Logical Fidelity, Causal Connection, and Inferential Progress. beddings VR = {vr1 , · · · , vrm}. In this chapter, we first propose multi-dimensional assessment criteria that use the nexus embeddings VN as the ground truth to assess the sci￾entific logicality of the reasoning process embeddings VR. Furthermore, given a… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: A pipeline to construct scientific QA data from academic papers, along with three SFT data sampling methods: a baseline and two comparative methods enriched with scientific logic. reasoning step rj to all n ground-truth nexuses: S⃗ j = [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Scaling law curves for scientific logicality and task performance of models trained on four SFT datasets at varying data scales. 4.4. Out-of-Domain Experiment [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of logical fidelity score grok-4-fast-reasoning Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct Kimi-K2 (1000B MoE) Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct† DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B† claude-3.7-sonnet GLM-4.5 (355B MoE) Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B gpt-5 Ours L-D (Qwen2.5-7B) o4-mini doubao-seed-1.6-thinking yi-large gpt-5-nano Ours RST (Qwen2.5-7B) Ours L-D (R1-Distill-Qwen-7B) DeepSeek-V3 (6… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of causal connection score 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualization of inferential progress score Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct† Ours L-D (R1-Distill-Qwen-7B) Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B† Ours L-D (Llama-3.1-8B) Ours L-D (Qwen2.5-7B) Ours RST (Qwen2.5-7B) Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct Ours RST (Llama-3.1-8B) Ours RST (R1-Distill-Qwen-7B) GLM-4.5 (355B MoE) o4-mini Kimi-K2 (1000B MoE) claude-3.7-sonnet DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B gpt-5… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualization of final answer accuracy Although our constructed training set is purely physics-oriented, it still yields non-trivial improvements on mathematical reasoning tasks. In particular, Logic-Distill achieves the best performance on all four benchmarks, improving the average score from 51.56 with MegaScience and 50.76 with Direct-Distill to 54.54. RST also achieves a higher average score than both … view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of the distribution of the constructed dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Logical fidelity of various models vs. similarity threshold τ significant variability when evaluating proofs and expression derivation problems. Therefore, to ensure objective and robust answer assessment, we limited our final answer evaluation to the 216 multiple-choice and 216 numerical computation questions. Multiple-choice questions are judged using a rule-based method, while computational questions a… view at source ↗
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With the continuous advancement of reasoning abilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), their application to scientific reasoning tasks has gained significant research attention. Current research primarily emphasizes boosting LLMs' performance on scientific QA benchmarks by training on larger, more comprehensive datasets with extended reasoning chains. However, these approaches neglect the essence of the scientific reasoning process -- logicality, which is the rational foundation to ensure the validity of reasoning steps leading to reliable conclusions. In this work, we make the first systematic investigation into the internal logicality underlying LLM scientific reasoning, and develop a scientific logicality-enriched methodology, including a set of assessment criteria and data sampling methods for logicality-guided training, to improve the logical faithfulness as well as task performance. Further, we take physics, characterized by its diverse logical structures and formalisms, as an exemplar discipline to practise the above methodology. For data construction, we extract scientific problems from academic literature and sample a high-quality dataset exhibiting strong logicality. Experiments based on three different backbone LLMs reveal that: 1) the training data we constructed can effectively improve the scientific logicality in LLM reasoning; and 2) the enriched scientific logicality plays a critical role in solving scientific problems. Code is available at \href{https://github.com/ScienceOne-AI/PhysLogic}{https://github.com/ScienceOne-AI/PhysLogic}.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims to make the first systematic investigation into the internal logicality underlying LLM scientific reasoning. It develops assessment criteria and logicality-guided data sampling methods to construct a high-quality training dataset by extracting and selecting scientific problems from academic literature that exhibit strong logicality. Using physics as the exemplar domain, experiments on three backbone LLMs are reported to show that the constructed training data effectively improves scientific logicality in LLM reasoning and that this enriched logicality plays a critical role in solving scientific problems.

Significance. If the central claims hold under rigorous, non-circular evaluation, the work could provide a useful framework for curating training data that emphasizes logical structure and formalisms rather than scale alone, with potential relevance for domain-specific reasoning in the sciences. The open-sourced code at the provided GitHub link is a positive contribution to reproducibility.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: The abstract asserts positive results on three LLMs yet supplies no numbers, baselines, error bars, or description of how logicality was scored; the full paper must supply these quantitative details (including exact metrics, comparison models, and statistical tests) so that the two main experimental claims can be verified against the stated methodology.
  2. [Methodology] Methodology section: Logicality is defined internally by the authors and used both to filter/select the training data and to measure post-training success. This creates a circularity risk for the central claim that the enriched logicality improves reasoning soundness. The paper should add either an external pre-existing benchmark or a blind domain-expert evaluation using a separate rubric to demonstrate that measured gains reflect genuine improvements rather than better alignment with the authors' own labeling scheme.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] Clarify in the introduction how the proposed logicality criteria differ from existing notions of step-wise deduction or formal verification in the LLM reasoning literature.
  2. [Figures] Ensure all figures showing reasoning traces include explicit annotations for the logicality criteria being illustrated.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments and the opportunity to revise our manuscript. We address each major comment below and have updated the paper accordingly to improve its rigor and clarity.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: The abstract asserts positive results on three LLMs yet supplies no numbers, baselines, error bars, or description of how logicality was scored; the full paper must supply these quantitative details (including exact metrics, comparison models, and statistical tests) so that the two main experimental claims can be verified against the stated methodology.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative details are crucial for the verifiability of our results. The revised manuscript will feature an updated abstract that reports specific numerical improvements in both logicality and task performance for the three backbone LLMs. In the Experiments section, we will provide comprehensive tables including exact metrics, baseline comparisons, error bars, a detailed description of the logicality scoring procedure, and results from statistical significance tests. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methodology] Methodology section: Logicality is defined internally by the authors and used both to filter/select the training data and to measure post-training success. This creates a circularity risk for the central claim that the enriched logicality improves reasoning soundness. The paper should add either an external pre-existing benchmark or a blind domain-expert evaluation using a separate rubric to demonstrate that measured gains reflect genuine improvements rather than better alignment with the authors' own labeling scheme.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this important methodological consideration. To address the risk of circularity, the revised paper will include performance evaluations on an external pre-existing scientific reasoning benchmark. In addition, we will report the outcomes of a blind evaluation conducted by domain experts employing a distinct rubric for assessing reasoning soundness. These measures will help substantiate that the observed gains represent authentic advancements rather than artifacts of our internal criteria. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Internally defined logicality criteria used for both data sampling and evaluation create circularity risk in claimed improvements.

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  1. fitted input called prediction [Abstract]
    "For data construction, we extract scientific problems from academic literature and sample a high-quality dataset exhibiting strong logicality. Experiments based on three different backbone LLMs reveal that: 1) the training data we constructed can effectively improve the scientific logicality in LLM reasoning; and 2) the enriched scientific logicality plays a critical role in solving scientific problems."

    The logicality assessment criteria are first used to filter/select the training data (high-logicality subset), after which the same criteria are applied to quantify post-training gains in scientific logicality. The reported improvement is therefore aligned with the selection filter by design rather than demonstrating an independent gain in reasoning validity.

full rationale

The paper defines its own assessment criteria for scientific logicality, uses those criteria to sample and construct a high-quality training dataset of problems exhibiting strong logicality, then trains LLMs and reports that the data improves scientific logicality (measured via the same criteria) and task performance. This creates a closed loop where the central experimental result is an improvement on the authors' own filtering metric rather than an externally anchored property of reasoning. No independent benchmark, blind expert rubric, or pre-existing logicality standard is invoked to break the loop. The derivation chain for the key claims therefore reduces to the input selection process by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger records the high-level premises that the reported improvements rest upon; no numerical free parameters or new physical entities are mentioned.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Scientific logicality is a distinct, assessable property of reasoning steps that can be improved by targeted data selection.
    This premise underpins both the assessment criteria and the claim that enriched logicality improves task performance.

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    Quantify the discrepancy between simulation and theory by computing the absolute difference∆r=|rexp −rth| ≈ |0.381−0.358| ≈ 0.023

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    Convert this discrepancy into a relative error by normalizing with respect to the theoretical value:ε= ∆r/rth ≈0.023/0.358≈ 0.064

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    Bad Case 1: Low logical fidelity

    Express the relative error as a percentage by multiplying by100%, giving a final percentage error of approximately6.42%when rounded to three significant figures, and conclude that the simulated ratio is within a few percent of the theoretical prediction. Bad Case 1: Low logical fidelity

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    Note that the problem asks for a comparison between an experimentally inferred ratioαHex/αSq and its theoretical counterpart, but decide to adopt a simplified treatment of the scaling law in order to "make the algebra easier"

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    Take the original relationNd =α √ Nand, assuming that for largeNthe dependence on √ Ncan be approximated as linear in N, replace it by an effective ruleα≈Nd/Nfor estimating the lattice parameters

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    Apply this simplified formula to the hexagonal lattice to obtainαHex ≈N d,Hex/NHex = 80/3600≈0.0222, treating this as the effective coefficient

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    Use the same approximation for the square lattice, givingαSq ≈N d,Sq/NSq = 245/4900≈0.0500, thereby defining a second effective coefficient

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    Form the experimental ratio directly from these approximate coefficients: rexp ≈ αHex αSq ≈ 0.0222 0.0500 ≈0.444, assuming this still captures the essential trend between the two lattices

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    Turn to the theoretical formula αHex αSq = 31/4 2 βHex βSq , but, for simplicity, interpret the factor31/4 as if it were just √ 3, arguing that the precise exponent will not dramatically change the outcome

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    Approximate √ 3≈1.73and thus take3 1/4 ≈1.73, ignoring the distinction between the square root and the fourth root in the numerical evaluation

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    Divide this value by 2 to find the prefactor31/4/2≈1.73/2≈0.866, which is then used in place of the exact value

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    Multiply the prefactor by the givenβ-ratio to obtain the theoretical prediction: rth ≈0.866×0.544≈0.471, and regard this as the model’s expected ratio

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    Compare the approximate experimental ratio and the theoretical one by computing the absolute difference∆r=|0.444−0.471| ≈ 0.027, treating this as the deviation between simulation and theory

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    Convert this fractional discrepancy into a percentage error viaε×100%≈5.7%, concluding (incorrectly) that the simulations and theory agree at roughly the few-percent level despite the inconsistent use of the scaling law and the exponent in the theoretical expression. Bad Case 2: Low causal connection

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    Begin by identifying the target quantity as the percentage error between the experimentally inferred ratioαHex/αSq and the theoretical prediction, and write down the general expression percent error= |rexp −r th| rth ×100%, wherer exp andr th denote the experimental and theoretical ratios, respectively

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    Before actually computing either ratio, reason qualitatively that both lattices obey the same scaling lawNd =α √ Nand that all given numerical factors (defect counts, particle numbers, andβ-ratios) are of order unity, and therefore anticipate that the percentage error should be relatively small, plausibly well below10%

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    Turn first to the theoretical side and recall that the model predicts αHex αSq = 31/4 2 βHex βSq , with the given inputβHex/βSq = 0.544, so that once31/4 is evaluated, the theoretical ratiorth can be obtained

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    Estimate3 1/4 numerically (for instance by recalling that it lies between1and √ 2and taking3 1/4 ≈1.32as a reasonable approximation), and then compute the theoretical ratio as rth ≈ 1.32 2 ×0.544≈0.36, which provides a concrete value against which to compare the experimental result

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    Only after having a numerical estimate forrth, go back to the simulation data and use the scaling lawNd =α √ Nto extract the coefficient for the hexagonal lattice as αHex = Nd,Hex √NHex = 80√ 3600 = 80 60 ≈1.33

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    Apply the same procedure to the square lattice, computing αSq = Nd,Sq p NSq = 245√ 4900 = 245 70 = 3.50, thereby obtaining the second coefficient needed for the experimental ratio

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    Form the experimental ratio only at this stage, using the two coefficients, rexp = αHex αSq ≈ 1.33 3.50 ≈0.38, and note that this value is numerically close to the theoretical estimaterth ≈0.36found earlier

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    Substitute these values into the percentage error formula, percent error= |0.38−0.36| 0.36 ×100%, but focus mainly on the fact that the numerator is small compared with the denominator, rather than computing the fraction precisely

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    Argue that since the difference|0.38−0.36|is roughly of the order10 −2 while0.36is of order10 −1, the resulting percentage error must be on the order of a few percent, which is broadly consistent with the initial expectation that the error would be well below10%

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