LLaMat (Nature Machine Intelligence 2026)
github.com/m3rg-iitd/llamatFamily of large language models for materials research via continued pretraining of LLaMA-2/3 on ~30B materials science tokens, outperforming commercial LLMs on materials science tasks while identifying "adaptation rigidity" in overtrained models; includes MatNLP benchmark and CIF crystal generation capabilities (IIT Delhi M3RG, MIT License)
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- GitHub — github.com/m3rg-iitd/llamat
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/m3rg-iitd/llamat
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