DocScope: Benchmarking Verifiable Reasoning for Trustworthy Long-Document Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08888v2
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 06:57:18 GMT
• Title: DocScope: Benchmarking Verifiable Reasoning for Trustworthy Long-Document Understanding
• Abstract summary: We introduce DocScope, a benchmark that formulates long-document QA as a structured reasoning trajectory prediction problem.<n>We design a four-stage evaluation protocol that audits each level of the trajectory independently.<n>We benchmark 6 proprietary models, 12 open-weight models, and several domain-specific systems.
• Score: 29.270128057512284
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Evaluating whether Multimodal Large Language Models can produce trustworthy, verifiable reasoning over long, visually rich documents requires evaluation beyond end-to-end answer accuracy. We introduce DocScope, a benchmark that formulates long-document QA as a structured reasoning trajectory prediction problem: given a complete PDF document and a question, the model outputs evidence pages, supporting evidence regions, relevant factual statements, and a final answer. We design a four-stage evaluation protocol -- Page Localization, Region Grounding, Fact Extraction, and Answer Verification -- that audits each level of the trajectory independently through inter-stage decoupling, with all judges selected and calibrated via human alignment studies. DocScope comprises 1,124 questions derived from 273 documents, with all hierarchical evidence annotations completed by human annotators. We benchmark 6 proprietary models, 12 open-weight models, and several domain-specific systems. Our experiments reveal that answer accuracy cannot substitute for trajectory-level evaluation: even among correct answers, the highest observed rate of complete evidence chains is only 29\%. Across all models, region grounding remains the weakest trajectory stage. Furthermore, the primary difficulty stems from aggregating evidence dispersed across long distances and multiple document clusters, while an oracle study identifies faithful perception and fact extraction as the dominant capability bottleneck. Cross-architecture comparisons further suggest that activated parameter count matters more than total scale. The benchmark and code will be publicly released at https://github.com/MiliLab/DocScope.

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