arXiv:2603.03686cs.AI2026-03

用稀疏搜索与物理对齐,实现化学配方的高效智能设计

AI4S-SDS: A Neuro-Symbolic Solvent Design System via Sparse MCTS and Differentiable Physics Alignment

  • 结合多智能体与稀疏MCTS,突破长序列推理的上下文限制
  • 在保持物理可行性前提下,探索多样性显著优于基线方法
  • 适合需要高探索效率的材料科学与化学配方研发人员

自动化化学配方设计是材料科学的核心挑战,需在高维组合空间中处理离散组分选择与连续几何约束。现有大语言模型代理面临长程推理时上下文窗口限制及路径依赖导致的模式崩溃问题。为此,我们提出AI4S-SDS,一个闭环神经符号框架,融合多智能体协作与定制蒙特卡洛树搜索(MCTS)引擎。通过稀疏状态存储与动态路径重建,解耦推理历史与上下文长度,支持固定令牌预算下的任意深度探索。为减少局部收敛,采用全局-局部搜索策略:记忆驱动的规划模块根据历史反馈自适应重构搜索根节点,兄弟感知扩展机制促进节点级正交探索。同时,通过可微物理引擎实现符号推理与物理可行性对齐,采用混合归一化损失与稀疏正则化优化连续配比,满足热力学约束。实验表明,AI4S-SDS在基于HSP的物理约束下实现完全有效性,探索多样性显著提升。初步光刻实验中,该框架发现一种新型光致抗蚀剂显影剂,性能媲美或优于商用基准,验证了多样性驱动的神经符号搜索在科学发现中的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Automated design of chemical formulations is a cornerstone of materials science, yet it requires navigating a high-dimensional combinatorial space involving discrete compositional choices and continuous geometric constraints. Existing Large Language Model (LLM) agents face significant challenges in this setting, including context window limitations during long-horizon reasoning and path-dependent exploration that may lead to mode collapse. To address these issues, we introduce AI4S-SDS, a closed-loop neuro-symbolic framework that integrates multi-agent collaboration with a tailored Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) engine. We propose a Sparse State Storage mechanism with Dynamic Path Reconstruction, which decouples reasoning history from context length and enables arbitrarily deep exploration under fixed token budgets. To reduce local convergence and improve coverage, we implement a Global--Local Search Strategy: a memory-driven planning module adaptively reconfigures the search root based on historical feedback, while a Sibling-Aware Expansion mechanism promotes orthogonal exploration at the node level. Furthermore, we bridge symbolic reasoning and physical feasibility through a Differentiable Physics Engine, employing a hybrid normalized loss with sparsity-inducing regularization to optimize continuous mixing ratios under thermodynamic constraints. Empirical results show that AI4S-SDS achieves full validity under the adopted HSP-based physical constraints and substantially improves exploration diversity compared to baseline agents. In preliminary lithography experiments, the framework identifies a novel photoresist developer formulation that demonstrates competitive or superior performance relative to a commercial benchmark, highlighting the potential of diversity-driven neuro-symbolic search for scientific discovery.

化学设计神经符号强化学习材料科学

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