PhysicsMate: A Curriculum-Grounded Bengali Benchmark for Secondary Physics QA with Small-Model Adaptation

arXiv:2610.00664 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. Accepted at 11th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (IEEE CSDE 2026)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Adaptation — 26× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ontology — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 13× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Provenance — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Data Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quantization — 2× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LoRA Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LoRA Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• BnMMLU: Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Bengali
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Knowledge Graphs are all you need: Leveraging KGs in Physics Question Answering
• An Ontology for Representing Curriculum and Learning Material

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