AutoDFT让材料计算自动纠错调参,无需专家干预就能稳定出结果。
AutoDFT: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous DFT Calculations

- 用多智能体闭环架构,每步都根据结果动态调整计划和参数
- 在34类任务上成功率94.1%,能可靠预测电子、磁性等性质
- 适合无计算背景的研究者,让第一性原理计算真正自动化
密度泛函理论(DFT)是材料与化学领域计算发现的基础,但每次计算都需大量人工介入:算法调优、方案修改、路径调整。现有基于大模型的代理仅能预设初始计划,后续仍依赖手工规则,导致流程脆弱、泛化差,遇异常时仍需专家干预。本文提出AutoDFT,一个闭合回路的多智能体框架,将大模型推理嵌入DFT全生命周期:战略规划者生成目标骨架,步骤规划者根据前序结果实时生成参数,监控-恢复-反思循环则诊断失败、修复问题并修订计划。在专为评估设计的VASPBench基准上,覆盖34项任务与9种计算类型,AutoDFT使用GPT-5.2实现94.1%的任务级成功率;在主流材料数据库上,可稳定生成电子、磁性和能量性质的可靠预测。通过打通规划与执行的闭环,使无计算背景的研究者也能获得可信的第一性原理结果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands extensive human effort: adjusting algorithms when convergence stalls, revising plans when unexpected physics emerges, and inserting steps as intermediate results reshape the problem. Existing LLM-based agents automate only the initial planning stage, producing a full execution plan upfront and leaving all subsequent adaptation to hand-crafted rules. As a result, these workflows remain fragile, do not generalize well beyond pre-planned scenarios, and often require expert intervention when failures or unexpected intermediate results require changes to the calculation path. Here, we introduce AutoDFT, a closed-loop multi-agent framework that embeds LLM reasoning into every stage of the DFT lifecycle, where a strategic planner produces a skeletal plan of step objectives; a step planner generates numerical parameters just in time from preceding results; and a monitor-recover-reflect cycle diagnoses failures, repairs them, and revises the plan when the evidence justifies it. We demonstrate both breadth and depth: breadth on VASPBench, a purpose-built benchmark spanning 34 tasks and 9 DFT calculation types, where AutoDFT achieves 94.1% task-level success with GPT-5.2; and depth on established materials databases, where AutoDFT produces quantitatively reliable property predictions across electronic, magnetic, and energetic properties. By closing the loop between planning and execution, AutoDFT enables experimentalists without deep computational expertise to obtain reliable first-principles results.
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