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Iterative rule refinement: experts review generated questions and patch rules when systematic errors are found; the released release reflects the latest revisions.", "rai:dataAnnotationPlatform": "Custom Python pipelines under `qa_pipelines//` in the source repository.", "rai:dataAnnotationAnalysis": "An independent post-hoc gold audit on a stratified sample is planned as part of the validity protocol; results will be reported in the camera-ready paper.", "rai:annotationsPerItem": "1 gold answer per question, deterministic from rules.", "rai:annotatorDemographics": "Gold answers produced by deterministic rule code; no human annotators per item.", "rai:dataUseCases": [ "Evaluation of multimodal LLMs on RF circuit schematic understanding.", "Diagnostic analysis of structural connectivity reasoning in vision-language models.", "Reasoning-mode (thinking on/off) ablation studies." ], "rai:dataLimitations": "Per-source-class question counts are imbalanced (40 to 974); per-source claims should be reported with N. Dynamic Reasoning subset (N=55) exists only on simulation-capable source class. Questions evaluated in English; Chinese parallel translations provided for reference. Single-image-per-question protocol.", "rai:dataBiases": "Source-class bias: the largest source class contributes ~41% of questions, which can dominate micro accuracy. We provide a `permissive` config that excludes the NonCommercial source and recommend reporting both micro and source-balanced macro accuracy. Domain bias: schematics are biased toward open-source SDR / amateur radio / satellite hardware; commercial proprietary RF designs are not represented.", "rai:dataReleaseMaintenancePlan": "Versioned releases under semver. Discussion thread is open for gold-answer corrections and parser / scorer disputes. After acceptance, this anonymous repository will be transferred to a maintainer account.", "rai:personalSensitiveInformation": "None. The dataset contains schematic images from open-source hardware projects, with no personally identifiable information, biometric data, or sensitive content.", "rai:dataSocialImpact": "Positive: enables systematic evaluation of multimodal LLMs on RF engineering tasks, supporting safer deployment in EE / RF design workflows. Risk: LLMs that perform well on this benchmark are not certified for production EE design. 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