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Gangan, Janine George, Hassan Harb, Ghazal Khalighinejad, Sartaaj Takrim Khan, Sascha Klawohn, Magdalena Lederbauer, Soroush Mahjoubi, Bernadette Mohr, Seyed Mohamad Moosavi, Aakash Naik, Aleyna Beste Ozhan, Dieter Plessers, Aritra Roy, Fabian Schoppach, Philippe Schwaller, Carla Terboven, Katharina Ueltzen, Shang Zhu, Jan Janssen, Calvin Li, Ian Foster, Ben Blaiszik View a PDF of the paper titled 34 Examples of LLM Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry: Towards Automation, Assistants, Agents, and Accelerated Scientific Discovery, by Yoel Zimmermann and 32 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping many aspects of materials science and chemistry research, enabling advances in molecular property prediction, materials design, scientific automation, knowledge extraction, and more. Recent developments demonstrate that the latest class of models are able to integrate structured and unstructured data, assist in hypothesis generation, and streamline research workflows. To explore the frontier of LLM capabilities across the research lifecycle, we review applications of LLMs through 34 total projects developed during the second annual Large Language Model Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry, a global hybrid event. These projects spanned seven key research areas: (1) molecular and material property prediction, (2) molecular and material design, (3) automation and novel interfaces, (4) scientific communication and education, (5) research data management and automation, (6) hypothesis generation and evaluation, and (7) knowledge extraction and reasoning from the scientific literature. Collectively, these applications illustrate how LLMs serve as versatile predictive models, platforms for rapid prototyping of domain-specific tools, and much more. In particular, improvements in both open source and proprietary LLM performance through the addition of reasoning, additional training data, and new techniques have expanded effectiveness, particularly in low-data environments and interdisciplinary research. As LLMs continue to improve, their integration into scientific workflows presents both new opportunities and new challenges, requiring ongoing exploration, continued refinement, and further research to address reliability, interpretability, and reproducibility. Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2411.15221 Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) Cite as: arXiv:2505.03049 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2505.03049v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.03049 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ben Blaiszik [view email] [v1] Mon, 5 May 2025 22:08:37 UTC (11,545 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled 34 Examples of LLM Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry: Towards Automation, Assistants, Agents, and Accelerated Scientific Discovery, by Yoel Zimmermann and 32 other authors * View PDF * HTML (experimental) * TeX Source * Other Formats license icon view license Current browse context: cs.LG < prev | next > new | recent | 2025-05 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.mtrl-sci cs References & Citations * NASA ADS * Google Scholar * Semantic Scholar a export BibTeX citation Loading... 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