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most citedEvaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

3 citations · 4 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

FREA: A Multi-Source Expert Benchmark for Reaction Feasibility Verification

Botao Yu, Bo Zhou, Daniel Adu-Ampratwum +7

As generative models and AI agents propose chemical reactions at a scale beyond expert review, feasibility verifiers decide which proposals enter synthesis planning. But do their d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

ATLAS: A Foundation Neural Sampler for Amorphous Materials

Mouyang Cheng, Denis Blessing, Botao Yu +4

Amorphous materials exhibit exceptional mechanical and functional properties, yet their rugged energy landscapes are notoriously difficult to sample. Below the glass-transition tem…

cs.AI2026

Benchmarking AI Agents for Addressing Scientific Challenges Across Scales

Tianyu Liu, Allen Xin Wang, Antonia Panescu +30

AI agents are increasingly being developed to accelerate scientific discovery, yet their practical capabilities in real research settings remain poorly understood. Existing benchma…

cs.AI2026

ARMOR: An Agentic Framework for Reaction Feasibility Prediction via Adaptive Utility-aware Multi-tool Reasoning

Ye Liu, Botao Yu, Xinyi Ling +2

Reaction feasibility prediction, as a fundamental problem in computational chemistry, has benefited from diverse tools enabled by recent advances in artificial intelligence, partic…

cs.AI2026

MMORF: A Multi-agent Framework for Designing Multi-objective Retrosynthesis Planning Systems

Frazier N. Baker, Trieu Nguyen, Reza Averly +4

Multi-objective retrosynthesis planning is a critical chemistry task requiring dynamic balancing of quality, safety, and cost objectives. Language model-based multi-agent systems (…

cs.AI2025★ 3 cited

Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

Zhangde Song, Jieyu Lu, Yuanqi Du +53

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasonin…

cs.AI2025

Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation

Sayash Kapoor, Benedikt Stroebl, Peter Kirgis +28

AI agents have been developed for complex real-world tasks from coding to customer service. But AI agent evaluations suffer from many challenges that undermine our understanding of…

cs.AI2025

LARC: Towards Human-level Constrained Retrosynthesis Planning through an Agentic Framework

Frazier N. Baker, Daniel Adu-Ampratwum, Reza Averly +3

Large language model (LLM) agent evaluators leverage specialized tools to ground the rational decision-making of LLMs, making them well-suited to aid in scientific discoveries, suc…

cs.AI2025

Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge

Boyu Gou, Zanming Huang, Yuting Ning +23

Agentic search such as Deep Research systems-where agents autonomously browse the web, synthesize information, and return comprehensive citation-backed answers-represents a major s…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

AutoSDT: Scaling Data-Driven Discovery Tasks Toward Open Co-Scientists

Yifei Li, Hanane Nour Moussa, Ziru Chen +16

Despite long-standing efforts in accelerating scientific discovery with AI, building AI co-scientists remains challenging due to limited high-quality data for training and evaluati…

cs.CL2025

Probing Association Biases in LLM Moderation Over-Sensitivity

Yuxin Wang, Botao Yu, Ivory Yang +2

Large Language Models are widely used for content moderation but often present certain over-sensitivity, leading to misclassification of benign content and rejecting safe user comm…

cs.CY2024

Achieving Carbon Neutrality for I/O Devices

Botao Yu, Guanqun Song, Ting Zhu

Achieving carbon neutrality has become a critical goal in mitigating the environmental impacts of human activities, particularly in the face of global climate challenges. Input/Out…

cs.CV2024

Towards Artwork Explanation in Large-scale Vision Language Models

Kazuki Hayashi, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito +2

Large-scale Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) output text from images and instructions, demonstrating capabilities in text generation and comprehension. However, it has not been clari…