The paper introduces little m, an AI agent that helps formulate industrial process control models by combining a domain-specific knowledge repository with LLM-driven interaction. It tackles the challenge of converting messy real-world specifications, including natural language and spatial diagrams, into rigorous mathematical optimization models. The authors also present IPC-Bench, a multimodal dataset of 50 canonical scenarios, and show through automated and human evaluations that little m outperforms state‑of‑the‑art LLMs in generating semantically correct models.
By Yongchao Ye, Xinyu He, Dutliff Boshoff, Way Kuo, Lishuai Li
arXiv:2606. 11605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting process-property relationships in manufacturing is often challenged by high experimental costs and the limited interpretability of complex 'black-box' models.
By Ge Song, Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Anandkumar Patel, Rajiv Malhotra, Hongyi Xu
The paper presents a novel multi‑agent approach to generating physics‑constrained constitutive models using large language models (LLMs). A Creator agent proposes a model tailored to the data, while an Inspector agent audits each proposal against nine physical constraints and requests refinement if violations occur. Experiments with constitutive artificial neural networks on brain tissue, rubber, and porcine skin show that adding the Inspector increases the proportion of models passing all checks from 90 % to 95 % for Claude Opus 4.7 and from 47 % to 60 % for Kimi K2.5, while the resulting models match or exceed expert‑designed models in accuracy and generalization.
By Marius Tacke, Matthias Busch, Kian Abdolazizi, Jonas Eichinger, Kevin Linka, Roland Aydin, Christian Cyron
arXiv:2607. 07863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In physically dominated machining processes, experimental datasets are small, expensive, and material-specific; in this regime, data curation, evaluation design, and the form of physics integration can matter as much as the learning algorithm.
By Sarah Grewe, J\"org Frochte
arXiv:2606. 11247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models are increasingly used to propose designs, data, and control actions for physical systems, yet many such systems are governed by hard physical constraints rather than by perceptual plausibility.
By Yaser Mike Banad, Sarah Sharif
arXiv:2608. 05120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kinetic model discovery is a central challenge in chemical engineering, as accurate rate expressions are essential for understanding and controlling chemical and biological processes.
By Roberto Aliaga Medina, Paulina Quintanilla, Antonio del Rio Chanona
Kinetic model discovery is a central challenge in chemical engineering, as accurate rate expressions are essential for understanding and controlling chemical and biological processes. Symbolic regression (SR) has emerged as a powerful data-driven approach for identifying interpretable kinetic models, but usually operates without domain knowledge, often exploring physicochemically implausible models.
arXiv:2608. 02402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermochemical upgrading of plastic waste is a key upcycling pathway, yet the experimental literature is fragmented by heterogeneous conditions and incomplete reporting.
By Jingyang Bai, Zijia Wang, Xiangyi Long, Marcos Millan, Binjian Nie, Mingyue Ding
The paper introduces a data‑driven framework for modeling the hyperelastic and viscoelastic behavior of digital materials made by multi‑material 3D printing. It extends a classical constitutive formulation by Bergström and Boyce, preserving multiplicative kinematics and invariant‑based strain‑energy functions while learning equilibrium and nonequilibrium parameters from multi‑rate uniaxial compression data across different compositions. The approach can either predict closed‑form model parameters as functions of composition or construct polyconvex strain‑energy functions using neural ordinary differential equations, ensuring thermodynamic consistency and capturing rate‑dependent stiffness and hysteresis.
By Josu\'e Garc\'ia-\'Avila (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, USA), Beijun Shen (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, USA), Manuel K. Rausch (Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA), Mary C. Boyce (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, USA), Adri\'an Buganza-Tepole (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, USA)
arXiv:2608. 09696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the answer to interventional ``what if'' questions --- the outcome of an action never taken --- requires a \emph{mechanistic}, causal model, not a curve fit; and learning such a model requires \emph{experiments}, because passive data leaves its mechanisms unidentified.
By Kevin Murphy
Predicting the answer to interventional ``what if'' questions --- the outcome of an action never taken --- requires a \emph{mechanistic}, causal model, not a curve fit; and learning such a model requires \emph{experiments}, because passive data leaves its mechanisms unidentified. Experiments are expensive, so the central problem is \emph{data efficiency}.
arXiv:2606. 01179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Entropy production governs irreversibility and uncertainty in both physical and information-theoretic systems.
By Biswajeet Sahoo, Debadutta Patra