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most citedEfficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models

6 citations · 20 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2026

Towards Diverse Scientific Hypothesis Search with Large Language Models

Haorui Wang, Parshin Shojaee, Kazem Meidani +7

Large language models (LLMs) are on the rise for accelerating scientific discovery, most recently in advanced tasks such as generating valid scientific hypotheses. Yet in many disc…

cs.AI2025

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Autonomous Goal-evolving Agents

Yuanqi Du, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu +25

There has been unprecedented interest in developing agents that expand the boundary of scientific discovery, primarily by optimizing quantitative objective functions specified by s…

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.LG2025

Two Birds with One Stone: Enhancing Uncertainty Quantification and Interpretability with Graph Functional Neural Process

Lingkai Kong, Haotian Sun, Yuchen Zhuang +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools on graph data. However, their predictions are mis-calibrated and lack interpretability, limiting their adoption in critical applicat…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

LLM-Augmented Chemical Synthesis and Design Decision Programs

Haorui Wang, Jeff Guo, Lingkai Kong +4

Retrosynthesis, the process of breaking down a target molecule into simpler precursors through a series of valid reactions, stands at the core of organic chemistry and drug develop…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

MatLLMSearch: Crystal Structure Discovery with Evolution-Guided Large Language Models

Jingru Gan, Peichen Zhong, Yuanqi Du +7

Crystal structure generation is fundamental to materials science, enabling the discovery of novel materials with desired properties. While existing approaches leverage Large Langua…

cs.CL2024

PLaD: Preference-based Large Language Model Distillation with Pseudo-Preference Pairs

Rongzhi Zhang, Jiaming Shen, Tianqi Liu +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities in various tasks, yet their vast parameter sizes restrict their applicability in resource-constrained settings.…

cs.NE2024★ 6 cited

Efficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models

Haorui Wang, Marta Skreta, Cher-Tian Ser +11

Molecular discovery, when formulated as an optimization problem, presents significant computational challenges because optimization objectives can be non-differentiable. Evolutiona…

cs.AI2024

Aligning Large Language Models with Representation Editing: A Control Perspective

Lingkai Kong, Haorui Wang, Wenhao Mu +7

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human objectives is crucial for real-world applications. However, fine-tuning LLMs for alignment often suffers from unstable training and…

cs.LG2024

Diffusion Models as Constrained Samplers for Optimization with Unknown Constraints

Lingkai Kong, Yuanqi Du, Wenhao Mu +8

Addressing real-world optimization problems becomes particularly challenging when analytic objective functions or constraints are unavailable. While numerous studies have addressed…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

TPD: Enhancing Student Language Model Reasoning via Principle Discovery and Guidance

Haorui Wang, Rongzhi Zhang, Yinghao Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently showcased remarkable reasoning abilities. However, larger models often surpass their smaller counterparts in reasoning tasks, posing the…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Assessing Logical Puzzle Solving in Large Language Models: Insights from a Minesweeper Case Study

Yinghao Li, Haorui Wang, Chao Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in language understanding and have been successfully applied to a variety of real-world tasks through task-specific f…