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LLMs as Acquisition Policies for Finite-Pool Materials Optimization: A Controlled Study

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arXiv:2608. 19790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discovering materials with desirable properties often requires searching large candidate spaces while experimental or computational evaluations remain costly.

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