The paper says the benchmark provides both complete and segmented contexts. Its proposed Chain of Retrieval (CoR) decomposes a query paper into aspect-specific views, matches those views against candidate-paper segments, and iteratively promotes top-ranked results as new queries. The resulting tree is aggregated from descendants toward parent nodes.
Implication: Researchers can evaluate retrieval systems against complete and segmented paper contexts. Agent builders can consider iterative candidate expansion and aggregation beyond one-shot similarity. The authors report that CoR significantly outperforms existing retrieval baselines, but the supplied abstract gives no benchmark size, baseline names, scores, or evaluation protocol.
Thesis
Full-paper retrieval becomes more testable when benchmarks preserve document context and the retrieval process can exploit relations among candidate papers.
Observed facts
The abstract says SciFullBench provides both complete and segmented contexts of full papers for queries and candidates.
1The abstract describes CoR as decomposing query papers into aspect-specific views and matching them against segmented candidate papers.
1The abstract reports that CoR significantly outperforms existing retrieval baselines.
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Mechanism
CoR uses aspect-specific matching to identify candidates, promotes top-ranked results as new queries to iteratively expand search, then aggregates the retrieval tree in post-order.
Why now
The paper identifies abstract-only representations as sparse summaries that miss dynamic relations among relevant papers.
Implications
Researchers can evaluate retrieval systems against complete and segmented paper contexts.
Agent builders can consider iterative candidate expansion and aggregation beyond one-shot similarity.
Evidence boundary
This account rests on the arXiv abstract; it does not establish the magnitude, robustness, or practical generality of the reported gains.
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