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most citedAre large language models superhuman chemists?

19 citations · 45 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.AI2026

AI scientists produce results without reasoning scientifically

Martiño Ríos-García, Nawaf Alampara, Chandan Gupta +5

Large language model (LLM)-based systems are increasingly deployed to conduct scientific research autonomously, yet whether their reasoning adheres to the epistemic norms that make…

cs.AI2026

Semantic Content Determines Algorithmic Performance

Martiño Ríos-García, Nawaf Alampara, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Counting should not depend on what is being counted; more generally, any algorithm's behavior should be invariant to the semantic content of its arguments. We introduce WhatCounts…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

General-Purpose Models for the Chemical Sciences: LLMs and Beyond

Nawaf Alampara, Anagha Aneesh, Martiño Ríos-García +6

Data-driven techniques have a large potential to transform and accelerate the chemical sciences. However, chemical sciences also pose the unique challenge of very diverse, small, f…

cs.LG2025

ChemPile: A 250GB Diverse and Curated Dataset for Chemical Foundation Models

Adrian Mirza, Nawaf Alampara, Martiño Ríos-García +12

Foundation models have shown remarkable success across scientific domains, yet their impact in chemistry remains limited due to the absence of diverse, large-scale, high-quality da…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Lessons from the trenches on evaluating machine-learning systems in materials science

Nawaf Alampara, Mara Schilling-Wilhelmi, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Measurements are fundamental to knowledge creation in science, enabling consistent sharing of findings and serving as the foundation for scientific discovery. As machine learning s…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Probing the limitations of multimodal language models for chemistry and materials research

Nawaf Alampara, Mara Schilling-Wilhelmi, Martiño Ríos-García +5

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have sparked interest in scientific assistants that could support researchers across the full spectrum of scientific workflows, from…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Reflections from the 2024 Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry

Yoel Zimmermann, Adib Bazgir, Zartashia Afzal +141

Here, we present the outcomes from the second Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry, which engaged participants across global hyb…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 13 cited

Less can be more for predicting properties with large language models

Nawaf Alampara, Santiago Miret, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Predicting properties from coordinate-category data -- sets of vectors paired with categorical information -- is fundamental to computational science. In materials science, this ch…

cs.LG2024★ 19 cited

Are large language models superhuman chemists?

Adrian Mirza, Nawaf Alampara, Sreekanth Kunchapu +32

Large language models (LLMs) have gained widespread interest due to their ability to process human language and perform tasks on which they have not been explicitly trained. Howeve…