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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

AutoDFT: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous DFT Calculations

Penghui Yang, Zhonghan Zhang, Yue Li +6

Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Discovering physical mechanisms from experiment-simulation mismatches

Yue Li, Penghui Yang, Yushan Xiao +7

Scientific discovery often begins where observation and prediction disagree. As computation and machine learning survey chemical space, experiment-simulation mismatches are exposed…

cs.AI2025

Simulating Environments with Reasoning Models for Agent Training

Yuetai Li, Huseyin A Inan, Xiang Yue +6

LLM agents excel in compact environments requiring deep reasoning but remain brittle when operating in broader, more complex contexts that demand robustness across diverse tools an…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning

Maggie Huan, Yuetai Li, Tuney Zheng +6

Math reasoning has become the poster child of progress in large language models (LLMs), with new models rapidly surpassing human-level performance on benchmarks like MATH and AIME.…

cs.CV2025

VisualSphinx: Large-Scale Synthetic Vision Logic Puzzles for RL

Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang +5

Vision language models (VLMs) are expected to perform effective multimodal reasoning and make logically coherent decisions, which is critical to tasks such as diagram understanding…

cs.AI2025

Temporal Sampling for Forgotten Reasoning in LLMs

Yuetai Li, Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang +5

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is intended to improve their reasoning capabilities, yet we uncover a counterintuitive effect: models often forget how to solve problems th…

cs.LG2025

TinyV: Reducing False Negatives in Verification Improves RL for LLM Reasoning

Zhangchen Xu, Yuetai Li, Fengqing Jiang +4

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a powerful tool for enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) by optimizing their policies with reward signals. Yet,…

cs.LG2025

SoSBench: Benchmarking Safety Alignment on Six Scientific Domains

Fengqing Jiang, Fengbo Ma, Zhangchen Xu +8

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit advancing capabilities in complex tasks, such as reasoning and graduate-level question answering, yet their resilience against misuse, particul…

cs.DC2025

Distributed Consensus Network: A Modularized Communication Framework and Reliability Probabilistic Analysis

Yuetai Li, Zhangchen Xu, Yiqi Wang +3

In this paper, we propose a modularized framework for communication processes applicable to crash and Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols. We abstract basic communication…

cs.AI2025

SafeChain: Safety of Language Models with Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Capabilities

Fengqing Jiang, Zhangchen Xu, Yuetai Li +5

Emerging large reasoning models (LRMs), such as DeepSeek-R1 models, leverage long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning to generate structured intermediate steps, enhancing their reason…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners

Yuetai Li, Xiang Yue, Zhangchen Xu +5

Large language models (LLMs) excel in complex reasoning tasks, and distilling their reasoning capabilities into smaller models has shown promise. However, we uncover an interesting…