Identifying the lowest-energy surface-adsorbate configuration is critical for modeling heterogeneous catalysis, yet exhaustive exploration with ab initio calculations is computationally prohibitive. Machine-learning force fields (MLFFs) accelerate structural relaxation but leave the search over the vast configurational space a major bottleneck, and open-loop large language model (LLM) agents lack a physics-grounded feedback mechanism to correct erroneous initial guesses.
arXiv:2606. 05050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Theoretical heterogeneous catalysis promises rapid catalyst discovery, yet computational and machine-learning predictions often deviate from experiment and stay confined to narrow material families, for want of a faithful, condition-aware catalytic simulator.
By Zhilong Song, Zongmin Zhang, Lixue Cheng
arXiv:2605. 26179v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when unexpected physics emerges, and inserting steps as intermediate results reshape the problem.
By Penghui Yang, Zhonghan Zhang, Yue Li, Xinrun Wang, Yanchen Deng, Yuhao Lu, Bijun Tang, Zheng Liu, Bo An
arXiv:2606. 00794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Merging first-principles calculations with machine learning (ML), we aim to accelerate the exploration of catalytic behaviour in novel materials.
By Pavlo Melnyk, Anmar Karmush, M{\aa}rten Wadenb\"ack, Ania Beatriz Rodr\'iguez-Barrera, Johanna Rosen, Michael Felsberg, Jonas Bj\"ork
arXiv:2606. 29459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) requires searching a combinatorially vast space where property labels are expensive and most machine-learning models reveal little about why a structure succeeds.
By Kyungmin Nam, Seunghee Han, Jihan Kim
arXiv:2512. 19458v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in agentic frameworks for scientific discovery.
By Zeyu Xia, Jinzhe Ma, Congjie Zheng, Zhongyao Wang, Shufei Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Hang Su, P. Hu, Changshui Zhang, Xingao Gong, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai, Dongzhan Zhou, Mao Su