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AtomWorld: A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models on Crystalline Materials

Taoyuze Lv, Alexander Chen, Fengyu Xie, Chu Wu +6 more

Published

Oct 6, 2025

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
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Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction. Existing science benchmarks mainly focus on perceptual or knowledge-based tasks, largely ignoring the modelling tasks, a fundamental starting point for any real scientific research. For materials science, constructing and manipulating atomic structures is one of the most creative and least automated steps. In this work, we introduce AtomWorld, a benchmark designed to evaluate the abilities of LLMs on structure modifications. The benchmark includes ten fundamental actions under four widely used modelling categories, enabling verifiable evaluation metrics. We find that Claude Opus 4.6 generally performs the best. While the success rate decreases markedly with increasing modelling complexity, with particularly low success rates (below 12\% for rotation) for operations involving complex spatial relations. Our results suggest that contemporary LLMs are better suited as copilots for materials structure modelling rather than fully unsupervised autonomous scientific agents. Beyond evaluation, AtomWorld also serves as a testbed and playground for developing future structure-aware models, including reinforcement learning and agentic approaches.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction."

Reported Metrics

partial

Success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"While the success rate decreases markedly with increasing modelling complexity, with particularly low success rates (below 12\% for rotation) for operations involving complex spatial relations."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

success rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
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Research brief

Metadata summary

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising potential in scientific research, enabling tasks ranging from knowledge retrieval to property prediction.
  • Existing science benchmarks mainly focus on perceptual or knowledge-based tasks, largely ignoring the modelling tasks, a fundamental starting point for any real scientific research.
  • For materials science, constructing and manipulating atomic structures is one of the most creative and least automated steps.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Contribution summary

  • Existing science benchmarks mainly focus on perceptual or knowledge-based tasks, largely ignoring the modelling tasks, a fundamental starting point for any real scientific research.
  • In this work, we introduce AtomWorld, a benchmark designed to evaluate the abilities of LLMs on structure modifications.
  • The benchmark includes ten fundamental actions under four widely used modelling categories, enabling verifiable evaluation metrics.

Why it matters for eval

  • Existing science benchmarks mainly focus on perceptual or knowledge-based tasks, largely ignoring the modelling tasks, a fundamental starting point for any real scientific research.
  • In this work, we introduce AtomWorld, a benchmark designed to evaluate the abilities of LLMs on structure modifications.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: success rate