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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 8, 2026
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This preprint proposes S3KG, a hybrid similarity metric for evaluating LLM contextual understanding using knowledge graphs, alongside a diagnostic framework for reasoning errors. The work is methodological and exploratory, demonstrating the framework on a curated QA benchmark without reporting quantitative comparisons to established metrics or evidence of clinical or practical utility.
Preprint. Large Language Models evaluated on question-answering tasks; no human or clinical population.. Intervention: Semantic Structural Similarity for KGs (S3KG) evaluation framework with diagnostic error categorization. Compared with: Established metrics (perplexity, BLEU, surface-level accuracy) mentioned as insufficient but not empirically compared in the abstract.
S3KG integrates structural and semantic similarity into a continuous evaluation score for knowledge graphs A diagnostic framework categorizes reasoning errors in LLM-generated responses S3KG demonstrated effectiveness on a curated QA benchmark for measuring correctness, faithfulness, and interpretability
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This is a methodological paper proposing a novel evaluation framework for LLMs, not a clinical trial or outcomes study; it raises questions about LLM contextual understanding rather than answering them in a clinical or real-world application context.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance across diverse NLP tasks, yet their ability to exhibit genuine contextual understanding remains uncertain. Traditional evaluation metrics such as perplexity, BiLingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU), or surface-level accuracy fail to reveal how well LLMs extract, integrate, and reason over contextual information--a gap particularly critical in question answering, where models must align responses with contextually grounded knowledge rather than memorized associations. We propose a novel knowledge graph-based evaluation framework introducing Semantic Structural Similarity for KGs (S3KG), a hybrid similarity measure integrating structural and semantic similarity into a continuous evaluation score, alongside a diagnostic framework for categorizing reasoning errors. To validate this pipeline, we evaluate S3KG against established metrics on a curated question-answer (QA) benchmark, demonstrating its effectiveness in measuring correctness, faithfulness, and interpretability in LLM-generated responses.
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