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MUSE: A Full-Text Cross-Domain Knowledge Base of Scientific Problems, Solutions, and Rationales

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arXiv:2608.10974 (cs)
[Submitted on 11 Aug 2026]

Title:MUSE: A Full-Text Cross-Domain Knowledge Base of Scientific Problems, Solutions, and Rationales

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Abstract:Scientific papers contain fine-grained records of problem solving: authors mention technical obstacles and methods that were used to address them, often along with reasoning on why those methods were chosen. We introduce MUSE (Mining Underlying Scientific Explanations), a full-text, multi-domain resource of scientific Problem-Solution-Rationale (P-S-R) triplets. We curate 579 expert-annotated full-text paragraphs, with a rich annotation schema covering salient problem, solution, and rationale spans, solves and rationale_of links and conceptual coreference. A modular extraction pipeline scales this annotation to build a high-quality knowledge base of 37K source-grounded P-S-R triplets. We evaluate the extraction components and include a preliminary experiment training a rationale-supervised LLM for scientific problem solving. Interestingly, we find that rationale supervision improves performance on complex, multi-constraint problems but can harm performance on simpler ones.
Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2608.10974 [cs.CL]
  (or arXiv:2608.10974v1 [cs.CL] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.10974
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From: Tsofia Cohen [view email]
[v1] Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:31:37 UTC (4,804 KB)
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