arXiv Machine Learning

LapidaryEngine: Fully Conversational Crystal Generation

arXiv:2606. 14215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has inspired the vision of generating bespoke crystal materials directly from natural-language instructions, enabling users to design materials through intuitive, conversational interaction.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Robust and Efficient AI Frameworks for Scalable Material Design and Property Prediction

The thesis presents AI frameworks that accelerate crystalline materials discovery by tackling both crystal property prediction and crystal structure generation. It introduces CrysXPP, CrysGNN, and CrysMMNet for efficient, data‑sparse property prediction using graph autoencoding, self‑supervised pretraining, and multimodal learning. For generation, TGDMat is a text‑guided diffusion model that jointly learns lattice parameters, atomic types, and coordinates, enabling valid, stable, and conditionally generated periodic materials.

By Kishalay Das
arXiv AI
Jun 9

CatalyticMLLM: A Graph-Text Multimodal Large Language Model for Catalytic Materials

arXiv:2605. 17254v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Property prediction and inverse structural design of catalytic materials are typically modeled as two independent tasks: the former predicts target properties from given structures, whereas the latter generates candidate structures according to desired properties.

By Yanjie Li, Jian Xu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Shiming Xiang, Nian Ran, Weijun Li, Cheng-Lin Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Language-Native Materials Processing Design by Lightly Structured Text Database and Reasoning Large Language Model

arXiv:2509. 06093v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Materials synthesis procedures are predominantly documented as narrative text in papers, protocols, and laboratory records, placing them beyond the reach of conventional data-driven optimization frameworks.

By Yuze Liu, Zhaoyuan Zhang, Xiangsheng Zeng, Yihe Zhang, Leping Yu, Liu Yang, Lejia Wang, Xi Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models for Metal-Organic Frameworks Structure Prediction

arXiv:2601. 09285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials with broad applications such as carbon capture and drug delivery, yet accurately predicting their 3D structures remains a significant challenge.

By Mianzhi Pan, JianFei Li, Peishuo Liu, Botian Wang, Yawen Ouyang, Yiming Rong, Hao Zhou, Jianbing Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 23

ChemVTS-Bench: Evaluating Visual-Textual-Symbolic Reasoning of Multimodal Large Language Models in Chemistry

ChemVTS-Bench is a domain-authentic benchmark that evaluates Visual‑Textual‑Symbolic reasoning in multimodal large language models for chemistry. It presents diverse chemical problems—organic molecules, inorganic materials, and 3D crystal structures—in three input modes: visual-only, visual‑text hybrid, and SMILES-based symbolic. The benchmark includes an automated agent workflow for inference, answer verification, and failure diagnosis, and shows that visual-only inputs and structural chemistry remain challenging for current models.

By Zhiyuan Huang, Baichuan Yang, Zikun He, Yanhong Wu, Fang Hongyu, Zhenhe Liu, Lin Dongsheng, Bing Su
arXiv AI
Jun 9

MatMind: A Structure-Activity Knowledge-Driven Generative Foundation Model for Materials Science

arXiv:2606. 07712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in AI-driven crystal materials science has so far been carried by narrow architectures purpose-built for individual tasks -- graph neural networks for property prediction, diffusion and flow-matching models for crystal generation -- each excelling within its niche yet unable to act as a shared backbone across the full spectrum of materials problems.

By Zhan'ao Yao, Boxuan Zhang, Jingyuan Shu, Xiaoyu Wu, Rongyan Wang, Linjing Li, Dajun Zeng, Yudong Yao, Tingwei Chen, Youwei Wang, Xiaolin Zhao, Jiahui Shi, Jianjun Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

Round-trip Reinforcement Learning: Self-Consistent Training for Better Chemical LLMs

The paper introduces Round-Trip Reinforcement Learning (RTRL), a framework that trains chemical language models to improve round‑trip consistency by rewarding successful forward and reverse transformations. By iteratively training forward and reverse mappings, RTRL leverages abundant unlabeled chemical data to enhance both consistency and overall performance across supervised, self‑supervised, and synthetic data regimes. Experiments show that RTRL outperforms strong baselines, demonstrating that round‑trip consistency can be treated as a trainable objective for more robust foundation models.

By Lecheng Kong, Xiyuan Wang, Yixin Chen, Muhan Zhang