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# IsoSci: A Benchmark of Isomorphic Cross-Domain Science Problems for Evaluating Reasoning versus Knowledge Retrieval in LLMs

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**Published:** July 3, 2026  
**Original:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01431  

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