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This research introduces LeMat-Synth Parser, a multi-modal toolkit leveraging LLMs and VLMs to systematically extract and structure synthesis protocols from unstructured scientific literature. By processing 81K publications, the system generates the largest structured dataset of inorganic materials synthesis procedures to date, enabling advanced analysis across diverse material classes and methods. The work demonstrates significant potential for automating data curation in materials science, though its primary focus remains on AI-driven information extraction rather than advancing core quantum or general AI theory.
LeMat-Synth: a multi-modal toolbox to curate broad synthesis procedure databases from scientific literature
arXiv:2510.26824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Wide access to advanced experimental methods in materials science has given rise to an abundance of procedural knowledge, which is scattered across decades of scientific literature and recorded in unstructured formats that are challenging to analyze systematically. In this work, we present LeMat-Synth Parser, a modular, open-source, and multi-modal extraction toolbox that utilizes large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) to automatically structure synthesis protocols and performance metrics extracted from both text and figures of publications. Applying LeMat-Synth Parser to 81K open-access publications, we curate LeMat-Synth, an extensive dataset of 58K synthesis procedures and to our knowledge the largest and most diverse structured inorganic materials synthesis dataset to date, covering 35 synthesis methods and 16 material classes based on a domain-specific ontology. We validate extraction quality against annotations by domain experts and a scalable LLM-as-a-judge framework, and benchmark a suite of models to identify optimal configurations and characterize cross-model biases. To demonstrate the extensibility of LeMat-Synth Parser, we apply it to two distinct domains. First, we link synthesis protocols and catalyst identity to thermocatalytic performance across a corpus of ammonia-decomposition publications. Second, we cross-validate text- and figure-reported critical transition temperatures across 1,384 superconductivity papers, then use the validated pipeline to recover the critical transition temperature for every composition in a sample series. We release LeMat-Synth Parser and the LeMat-Synth dataset openly on GitHub and Hugging Face
Authors:Magdalena Lederbauer, Siddharth Betala, Valerie Gentzke, Anamaria Leonescu, Amine Sehaba, Faris Flaifil, Ayush Jain, Alfonso Amayuelas, Nikhil Yelamarthy, Xiyao Li, Grégoire Germain, Stefano Ribes, Stefan P. Schmid, Alexandre Nozadze, Anna Kelmanson, Sudheesh Kumar Ethirajan, Mohd Zaki, Elton Pan, Georgia Channing, Connor W. Coley, Philippe Schwaller, Rocío Mercado, Alexandre Duval, Mathilde L. D. Franckel, Samuel P. Gleason
Abstract:Wide access to advanced experimental methods in materials science has given rise to an abundance of procedural knowledge, which is scattered across decades of scientific literature and recorded in unstructured formats that are challenging to analyze systematically. In this work, we present LeMat-Synth Parser, a modular, open-source, and multi-modal extraction toolbox that utilizes large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) to automatically structure synthesis protocols and performance metrics extracted from both text and figures of publications. Applying LeMat-Synth Parser to 81K open-access publications, we curate LeMat-Synth, an extensive dataset of 58K synthesis procedures and to our knowledge the largest and most diverse structured inorganic materials synthesis dataset to date, covering 35 synthesis methods and 16 material classes based on a domain-specific ontology. We validate extraction quality against annotations by domain experts and a scalable LLM-as-a-judge framework, and benchmark a suite of models to identify optimal configurations and characterize cross-model biases. To demonstrate the extensibility of LeMat-Synth Parser, we apply it to two distinct domains. First, we link synthesis protocols and catalyst identity to thermocatalytic performance across a corpus of ammonia-decomposition publications. Second, we cross-validate text- and figure-reported critical transition temperatures across 1,384 superconductivity papers, then use the validated pipeline to recover the critical transition temperature for every composition in a sample series. We release LeMat-Synth Parser and the LeMat-Synth dataset openly on GitHub and Hugging Face
Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
arXiv:2510.26824 [cs.DL]
(or arXiv:2510.26824v2 [cs.DL] for this version)
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