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ChemX: ACollection of Chemistry Datasets for Benchmarking Automated Information Extraction
Despite recent advances in machine learning, many scientific discoveries in chemistry still rely on manually curated datasets extracted from the scientific literature. Automation of information extraction in specialized chemistry domains has the potential to scale up machine learning applications and improve the quality of predictions, enabling data-driven scientific discoveries at a faster pace. In this paper, we present ChemX, a collection of 10 benchmarking datasets across several domains of chemistry providing a reliable basis for evaluating and fine-tuning automated information extraction methods. The datasets encompassing various properties of small molecules and nanomaterials have been manually extracted from peer-reviewed publications and systematically validated by domain experts through a cross-verification procedure allowing for identification and correction of errors at sources. In order to demonstrate the utility of the resulting datasets, we evaluate the extraction performance of the state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs). Moreover, we design our own agentic approach to take full control of the document preprocessing before LLM-based information extraction.
The ML.ENERGY Benchmark: Toward Automated Inference Energy Measurement and Optimization
As the adoption of Generative AI in real-world services grow explosively, energy has emerged as a critical bottleneck resource. However, energy remains a metric that is often overlooked, under-explored, or poorly understood in the context of building ML systems. We present the ML.ENERGY Benchmark, a benchmark suite and tool for measuring inference energy consumption under realistic service environments, and the corresponding ML.ENERGY Leaderboard, which have served as a valuable resource for those hoping to understand and optimize the energy consumption of their generative AI services. In this paper, we explain four key design principles for benchmarking ML energy we have acquired over time, and then describe how they are implemented in the ML.ENERGY Benchmark. We then highlight results from the early 2025 iteration of the benchmark, including energy measurements of 40 widely used model architectures across 6 different tasks, case studies of how ML design choices impact energy consumption, and how automated optimization recommendations can lead to significant (sometimes more than 40%) energy savings without changing what is being computed by the model. The ML.ENERGY Benchmark is open-source and can be easily extended to various customized models and application scenarios.
SentinelKilnDB: ALarge-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for OBBBrick Kiln Detection in South Asia Using Satellite Imagery Supplementary Information
The questions are presented in blue, with our corresponding responses shown in black. For what purpose was the dataset created? Was there a specific task in mind? This dataset was created for academic and research purposes to advance scientific understanding and support policy development on air quality and sustainability issues. The findings highlight important opportunities to improve regulatory compliance and encourage the adoption of cleaner technologies within the brick kiln sector, which is a significant contributor to regional air pollution. Beyond its environmental relevance, this dataset is especially valuable for the fields of object detection and computer vision. It provides a large-scale, hand-validated collection of brick kiln locations annotated with oriented bounding boxes (OBBs) on freely available Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
Improving Bilinear RNNs with Closed-loop Control
Recent efficient sequence modeling methods such as Gated DeltaNet, TTT, and RWKV-7 have achieved performance improvements by supervising the recurrent memory management through Delta learning rule. Unlike previous state-space models (e.g., Mamba) and gated linear attentions (e.g., GLA), these models introduce interactions between the recurrent state and the key vector, structurally resembling bilinear systems. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of Bilinear RNNs with a comprehensive analysis on the advantages and limitations of these models. Then, based on closed-loop control theory, we propose a novel Bilinear RNN variant named Comba, which adopts a scalar-plus-low-rank state transition, with both state feedback and output feedback corrections. We also implement a hardware-efficient chunk-wise parallel kernel in Triton and train models with 340M/1.3B
SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks
Unlike traditional benchmarks for scientific literature understanding and synthesis, SciArena engages the research community directly, following the Chatbot Arena evaluation approach of community voting on model comparisons. By leveraging collective intelligence, SciArena offers a community-driven evaluation of model performance on open-ended scientific tasks that demand literature-grounded, long-form responses. The platform currently supports 47 foundation models and has collected over 20,000 votes from human researchers across diverse scientific domains. Our analysis of the data collected so far confirms its high quality. We discuss the results and insights based on the model ranking leaderboard. To further promote research in building modelbased automated evaluation systems for literature tasks, we release SciArena-Eval, a meta-evaluation benchmark based on collected preference data. It measures the accuracy of models in judging answer quality by comparing their pairwise assessments with human votes. Our experiments highlight the benchmark's challenges and emphasize the need for more reliable automated evaluation methods.
Analog In-memory Training on General Non-ideal Resistive Elements: The Impact of Response Functions
As the economic and environmental costs of training and deploying large vision or language models increase dramatically, analog in-memory computing (AIMC) emerges as a promising energy-efficient solution. However, the training perspective, especially its training dynamics, is underexplored. In AIMC hardware, the trainable weights are represented by the conductance of resistive elements and updated using consecutive electrical pulses. While the conductance changes by a constant in response to each pulse, in reality, the change is scaled by asymmetric and non-linear response functions, leading to a non-ideal training dynamics. This paper provides a theoretical foundation for gradient-based training on AIMC hardware with nonideal response functions.
Enforcing Hard Linear Constraints in Deep Learning Models with Decision Rules
Deep learning models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical tasks where predictions must satisfy hard constraints, such as physical laws, fairness requirements, or safety limits. However, standard architectures lack built-in mechanisms to enforce such constraints, and existing approaches based on regularization or projection are often limited to simple constraints, computationally expensive, or lack feasibility guarantees. This paper proposes a model-agnostic framework for enforcing input-dependent linear equality and inequality constraints on neural network outputs. The architecture combines a task network trained for prediction accuracy with a safe network trained using decision rules from the stochastic and robust optimization literature to ensure feasibility across the entire input space. The final prediction is a convex combination of the two subnetworks, guaranteeing constraint satisfaction during both training and inference without iterative procedures or runtime optimization. We prove that the architecture is a universal approximator of constrained functions and derive computationally tractable formulations based on linear decision rules. Empirical results on benchmark regression tasks show that our method consistently satisfies constraints while maintaining competitive accuracy and low inference latency.
GraphMaster: Automated Graph Synthesis via LLM Agents in Data-Limited Environments
The era of foundation models has revolutionized AI research, yet Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) remain constrained by the scarcity of large-scale graph corpora. Traditional graph data synthesis techniques primarily focus on simplistic structural operations, lacking the capacity to generate semantically rich nodes with meaningful textual attributes--a critical limitation for real-world applications. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional text generation capabilities, their direct application to graph synthesis is impeded by context window limitations, hallucination phenomena, and structural consistency challenges. To address these issues, we introduce GraphMaster--the first multi-agent framework specifically designed for graph data synthesis in data-limited environments.