English
Related papers

Related papers: Can LLMs Predict Polymer Physics Just by Reading S…

200 papers

The ever-increasing number of materials science articles makes it hard to infer chemistry-structure-property relations from published literature. We used natural language processing (NLP) methods to automatically extract material property…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to revolutionize scientific research, yet their robustness and reliability in domain-specific applications remain insufficiently explored. In this study, we evaluate the performance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hongchen Wang , Kangming Li , Scott Ramsay , Yao Fehlis , Edward Kim , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

As the application of large language models in various fields continues to expand, materials science also ushers in opportunities for AI-driven innovation. The traditional way of relying on manual search for materials science-related…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chao Huang , Huichen Xiao , Chen Chen , Chunyan Chen , Yi Zhao , Shiyu Du , Yiming Zhang , He Sha , Ruixin Gu

Polymers are candidate materials for a wide range of sustainability applications such as carbon capture and energy storage. However, computational polymer discovery lacks automated analysis of reaction pathways and stability assessment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brenda S. Ferrari , Matteo Manica , Ronaldo Giro , Teodoro Laino , Mathias B. Steiner

All-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can predict polymer properties from molecular structure, yet their execution requires specialized expertise in force field selection, system construction, equilibration, and property extraction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Alexander Zhao , Achuth Chandrasekhar , Amir Barati Farimani

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to materials science questions, including literature comprehension, property prediction, materials discovery and alloy design. At the same time, a wide range of physics-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Siyu Liu , Bo Hu , Beilin Ye , Jiamin Xu , David J. Srolovitz , Tongqi Wen

Conventional mechanical design follows an iterative process in which initial concepts are refined through cycles of expert assessment and resource-intensive Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis to meet performance goals. While machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yayati Jadhav , Amir Barati Farimani

Protein language models (PLMs) have shown promise in improving the understanding of protein sequences, contributing to advances in areas such as function prediction and protein engineering. However, training these models from scratch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shivasankaran Vanaja Pandi , Bharath Ramsundar

Reliable object manipulation requires understanding physical properties that vary across objects and environments. Vision-language model (VLM) planners can reason about friction and stability in general terms; however, they often cannot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Haoyang Li , Yang You , Hao Su , Leonidas Guibas

Human reading behavior is tuned to the statistics of natural language: the time it takes human subjects to read a word can be predicted from estimates of the word's probability in context. However, it remains an open question what…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox , Jon Gauthier , Jennifer Hu , Peng Qian , Roger Levy

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in materials science. However, little attention has been given to benchmarking and standardized evaluation for LLM-based materials property prediction, which hinders progress. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-03 Andre Niyongabo Rubungo , Kangming Li , Jason Hattrick-Simpers , Adji Bousso Dieng

Given the complexity of combinations of tasks, languages, and domains in natural language processing (NLP) research, it is computationally prohibitive to exhaustively test newly proposed models on each possible experimental setting. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Mengzhou Xia , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Ruochen Xu , Yiming Yang , Graham Neubig

Simile interpretation is a crucial task in natural language processing. Nowadays, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many tasks. However, it remains under-explored whether PLMs can interpret…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Qianyu He , Sijie Cheng , Zhixu Li , Rui Xie , Yanghua Xiao

Modern Protein Language Models (PLMs) apply transformer-based model architectures from natural language processing to biological sequences, predicting a variety of protein functions and properties. However, protein language has key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Anna Hart , Chi Han , Jeonghwan Kim , Huimin Zhao , Heng Ji

Scaling laws have allowed Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) into the field of causal reasoning. Causal reasoning of PLM relies solely on text-based descriptions, in contrast to causal discovery which aims to determine the causal…

Large language models (LLMs) trained purely on text ostensibly lack any direct perceptual experience, yet their internal representations are implicitly shaped by multimodal regularities encoded in language. We test the hypothesis that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Sophie L. Wang , Phillip Isola , Brian Cheung

Polymers are a versatile class of materials with widespread industrial applications. Advanced computational tools could revolutionize their design, but their complex, multi-scale nature poses significant modeling challenges. Conventional…

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated rapid progress across a wide array of domains. Owing to the very large number of parameters and training data in LLMs, these models inherently encompass an expansive and comprehensive materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-20 Siyu Liu , Tongqi Wen , A. S. L. Subrahmanyam Pattamatta , David J. Srolovitz

Large language models (LLMs) are beginning to reshape how chemists plan and run reactions in organic synthesis. Trained on millions of reported transformations, these text-based models can propose synthetic routes, forecast reaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Kartar Kumar Lohana Tharwani , Rajesh Kumar , Sumita , Numan Ahmed , Yong Tang