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Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for accelerating scientific discovery, yet their static knowledge and hallucination issues hinder autonomous research applications. Recent advances integrate LLMs into agentic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zeyu Xia , Jinzhe Ma , Congjie Zheng , Shufei Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Hang Su , P. Hu , Changshui Zhang , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Dongzhan Zhou , Mao Su

AI holds promise for transforming scientific processes, including hypothesis generation. Prior work on hypothesis generation can be broadly categorized into theory-driven and data-driven approaches. While both have proven effective in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Haokun Liu , Yangqiaoyu Zhou , Mingxuan Li , Chenfei Yuan , Chenhao Tan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered considerable interest due to their impressive natural language capabilities, which in conjunction with various emergent properties make them versatile tools in workflows ranging from complex code…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-22 Ge Lei , Ronan Docherty , Samuel J. Cooper

Materials discovery requires navigating vast chemical and structural spaces while satisfying multiple, often conflicting, objectives. We present LLM-guided Evolution for MAterials discovery (LLEMA), a unified framework that couples the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nikhil Abhyankar , Sanchit Kabra , Saaketh Desai , Chandan K. Reddy

Large Language Models (LLMs) are extensively used in text generation tasks. These generative capabilities bring us to a point where LLMs could potentially provide useful insights in policy making or agency operations. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Aleksandra Edwards , Thomas Edwards , Jose Camacho-Collados , Alun Preece

Scientific discovery plays a pivotal role in advancing human society, and recent progress in large language models (LLMs) suggests their potential to accelerate this process. However, it remains unclear whether LLMs can autonomously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zonglin Yang , Wanhao Liu , Ben Gao , Tong Xie , Yuqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria , Dongzhan Zhou

Materials synthesis is vital for innovations such as energy storage, catalysis, electronics, and biomedical devices. Yet, the process relies heavily on empirical, trial-and-error methods guided by expert intuition. Our work aims to support…

With recent Nobel Prizes recognising AI contributions to science, Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming scientific research by enhancing productivity and reshaping the scientific method. LLMs are now involved in experimental design,…

Requirements elicitation, a critical, yet time-consuming and challenging step in product development, often fails to capture the full spectrum of user needs. This may lead to products that fall short of expectations. This paper introduces a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mohammadmehdi Ataei , Hyunmin Cheong , Daniele Grandi , Ye Wang , Nigel Morris , Alexander Tessier

Large language models (LLMs) have been touted to enable increased productivity in many areas of today's work life. Scientific research as an area of work is no exception: the potential of LLM-based tools to assist in the daily work of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Mohamed Nejjar , Luca Zacharias , Fabian Stiehle , Ingo Weber

There is growing interest in hypothesis generation with large language models (LLMs). However, fundamental questions remain: what makes a good hypothesis, and how can we systematically evaluate methods for hypothesis generation? To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haokun Liu , Sicong Huang , Jingyu Hu , Yangqiaoyu Zhou , Chenhao Tan

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating scientific hypothesis generation, yet existing approaches primarily yield coarse-grained hypotheses lacking critical methodological and experimental details. We introduce and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zonglin Yang , Wanhao Liu , Ben Gao , Yujie Liu , Wei Li , Tong Xie , Lidong Bing , Wanli Ouyang , Erik Cambria , Dongzhan Zhou

The powerful ability to understand, follow, and generate complex language emerging from large language models (LLMs) makes LLM-generated text flood many areas of our daily lives at an incredible speed and is widely accepted by humans. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Junchao Wu , Shu Yang , Runzhe Zhan , Yulin Yuan , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in many fields, and recent works have studied exploring LLMs for graph discriminative tasks such as node classification. However, the abilities of LLMs for graph generation remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yang Yao , Xin Wang , Zeyang Zhang , Yijian Qin , Ziwei Zhang , Xu Chu , Yuekui Yang , Wenwu Zhu , Hong Mei

Crystal structure generation is fundamental to materials science, enabling the discovery of novel materials with desired properties. While existing approaches leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) through extensive fine-tuning on materials…

CO2 reduction requires efficient catalysts, yet materials discovery remains bottlenecked by 10-20 year development cycles requiring deep domain expertise. This paper demonstrates how large language models can assist the catalyst discovery…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 AI Scientists , Xinyi Lin , Danqing Yin , Ying Guo

Analogical reasoning, the transfer of relational structures across contexts (e.g., planet is to sun as electron is to nucleus), is fundamental to scientific discovery. Yet human insight is often constrained by domain expertise and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hongyu Guo

Objective: This study investigates the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) as an alternative to human expert elicitation for extracting structured causal knowledge and facilitating causal modeling in biometric and healthcare…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Olha Shaposhnyk , Daria Zahorska , Svetlana Yanushkevich

Large language models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in scientific disciplines such as biomedicine, particularly in hypothesis generation, where they can analyze vast literature, identify patterns, and suggest research directions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Guangzhi Xiong , Eric Xie , Corey Williams , Myles Kim , Amir Hassan Shariatmadari , Sikun Guo , Stefan Bekiranov , Aidong Zhang

The synthesis of inorganic crystalline materials is essential for modern technology, especially in quantum materials development. However, designing efficient synthesis workflows remains a significant challenge due to the precise…