arXiv:2607. 00924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accelerating materials discovery requires AI systems that can generate scientifically valid hypotheses through multi-step, domain-grounded reasoning.
By Subhadeep Pal, Shashwat Sourav, Tirthankar Ghosal, Markus J. Buehler
arXiv:2601. 02424v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The synthesis of nanocrystals has been highly dependent on trial-and-error, due to the complex correlation between synthesis parameters and physicochemical properties.
By Kai Gu, Yingping Liang, Senliang Peng, Aotian Guo, Haizheng Zhong, Ying Fu
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.
By Yusei Ito, Yuta Suzuki, Tomoya Murata, Masaki Adachi
arXiv:2509. 23071v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agent development is hindered by the lack of executable ground-truth agent-environment interaction trajectories.
By Muzhi Li, Jinhu Qi, Yihong Wu, Minghao Zhao, Liheng Ma, Yifan Li, Xinyu Wang, Zhenghan Tai, Zixing Song, Yingxue Zhang, Ho-fung Leung, Irwin King
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:2605. 28742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models can use verifiable rewards to improve at a wide variety of reasoning tasks.
By Linas Nasvytis, Simon Jerome Han, Ben Prystawski, Satchel Grant, Noah D. Goodman, Judith E. Fan
arXiv:2606. 15367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents aim to solve complex knowledge-intensive tasks through long-horizon planning, evidence gathering, reasoning, and report generation.
By Yao Dong, Xinglin Xiao, Liwei Dong, Xinlong Jin, Zhengbo Li, Heng Zhang, Duyun Wang, Nan Xu
arXiv:2601. 03808v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable performance in code synthesis; however, data-aware augmentation remains a limiting factor, handled via heuristic design or brute-force approaches.
By Usha Shrestha, Dmitry Ignatov, Radu Timofte
arXiv:2606. 03660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as chemistry assistants, yet most chemistry benchmarks still score only final answers.
By Hongyu Guo, Hao Li, He Cao, Gongbo Zhang, Li Yuan
arXiv:2510. 12171v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models have shown strong scientific reasoning ability, but their performance on materials science problems remains less studied.
By Junkai Zhang, Jingru Gan, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zian Jia, Changquan Gu, Jianpeng Chen, Yanqiao Zhu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Dawei Zhou, Ling Li, Wei Wang
arXiv:2607. 07708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structure-property relationships are foundational to biology, chemistry and materials science, where function, reactivity and physical response emerge from spatial, chemical and periodic organization.
By Chen Tang, Yizhou Wang, Jianyu Wu, Lintao Wang, Shixiang Tang, Pengze Li, Encheng Su, Jun Yao, Jiabei Xiao, Yuqi Shi, Jielan Li, Hongxia Hao, Zhangyang Gao, Fang Wu, Ben Fei, Xiangyu Yue, Pan Tan, Bozitao Zhong, Jinouwen Zhang, Aoran Wang, Yan Lu, Jiaheng Liu, Xinzhu Ma, Liang Hong, Mingyue Zheng, Phil Torr, Bowen Zhou, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai
arXiv:2607. 14989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly evolving from text generators into general agents capable of understanding user requests, invoking external tools, and completing complex tasks through interaction.
By Chengyu Shen, Yujie Fu, Gangtao Xin, Yanheng Hou, Wenlong Fei, Guojie Zhu, Jiawei Li, Hongcheng Gao, Runming He, Zhen Hao Wong, Meiyi Qiang, Hao Liang, Zhao Cao, Hao Jiang, Chong Chen, Wentao Zhang