arXiv:2506.06363physics.chem-phcond-mat.mtrl-sci2025-06被引 22

用AI自动完成化学模拟全流程,省去专家手动操作

ChemGraph: An Agentic Framework for Computational Chemistry Workflows

  • 用图神经网络+大模型构建智能代理,自动规划和执行计算任务
  • 小模型在分解任务后表现接近甚至超过GPT-4o,效率提升明显
  • 适合科研人员快速完成结构生成、能量计算等常见化学模拟任务

原子级模拟在化学与材料科学中至关重要,可加速新催化剂、储能材料及药物的发现。然而,由于计算方法多样、软件生态复杂,且需专家知识和人工干预,模拟流程仍具挑战性。本文提出ChemGraph,一个基于人工智能与先进模拟工具的智能代理框架,用于简化和自动化计算化学与材料科学工作流。该框架利用基于图神经网络的通用模型实现高效精准计算,结合大语言模型(LLMs)进行自然语言理解、任务规划与科学推理,提供直观交互界面。用户可使用从紧束缚到密度泛函理论、波函数理论等多种方法,完成分子结构生成、单点能、几何优化、振动分析及热化学计算。我们在13个基准任务上评估ChemGraph,结果表明:较小模型(GPT-4o-mini、Claude-3.5-haiku、Qwen2.5-14B)在简单任务中表现良好;复杂任务则受益于更大模型(如GPT-4o)。更重要的是,通过多智能体框架将复杂任务分解为子任务,小模型在特定场景下可达到甚至超越GPT-4o的性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Atomistic simulations are essential tools in chemistry and materials science, accelerating the discovery of novel catalysts, energy storage materials, and pharmaceuticals. However, running these simulations remains challenging due to the wide range of computational methods, diverse software ecosystems, and the need for expert knowledge and manual effort for the setup, execution, and validation stages. In this work, we present ChemGraph, an agentic framework powered by artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art simulation tools to streamline and automate computational chemistry and materials science workflows. ChemGraph leverages graph neural network-based foundation models for accurate yet computationally efficient calculations and large language models (LLMs) for natural language understanding, task planning, and scientific reasoning to provide an intuitive and interactive interface. Users can perform tasks such as molecular structure generation, single-point energy, geometry optimization, vibrational analysis, and thermochemistry calculations with methods ranging from tight-binding and machine learning interatomic potentials to density functional theory or wave function theory-based methods. We evaluate ChemGraph across 13 benchmark tasks and demonstrate that smaller LLMs (GPT-4o-mini, Claude-3.5-haiku, Qwen2.5-14B) perform well on simple workflows, while more complex tasks benefit from using larger models like GPT-4o. Importantly, we show that decomposing complex tasks into smaller subtasks through a multi-agent framework enables smaller LLM models to match or exceed GPT-4o's performance in specific scenarios.

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