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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models

   Dagdelen, Dunn, Lee et al. · Nature Communications · 2024

   The paper fine-tunes large language models (GPT-3, Llama-2) to pull structured records of named entities and their relations from materials chemistry text, on three tasks.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors describe fine-tuning large language models as a simple, accessible and flexible way to build large databases of structured scientific knowledge from papers.“This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.”

2. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Benchmarking graph neural networks for materials chemistry

   Fung, Zhang, Juarez and Sumpter · npj Computational Materials · 2021

   The authors built MatDeepLearn, a platform for comparing graph neural networks on materials chemistry datasets, and used it to assess top models, noting their strengths and weaknesses.

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   1. UncheckedChoosing hyperparameters well matters, and the top graph neural networks perform roughly similarly once each has been optimised, on these materials datasets.“From our investigations we note the importance of hyperparameter selection and find roughly similar performances for the top models once optimized.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper observes several weaknesses in graph neural networks for materials, including high data requirements, and discusses ways to improve them.“Meanwhile several weaknesses of GNNs are also observed including high data requirements, and suggestions for further improvement for applications in materials chemistry are discussed.”