MDForge: Agentic Molecular Dynamics Pipeline Design under Sparse Simulator Feedback
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arXiv:2606.12916v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Molecular dynamics (MD) is the canonical in-silico method for atomistic molecular science, simulating molecular behavior from first-principle physics. Designing an MD pipeline for a new system requires substantial expert knowledge: running it on even one molecule is expensive, ruling out trial-and-error. We automate this expert pipeline-design process with an LLM agent. Unlike existing MD agents that orchestrate a predefined tool set, we treat pipeline design as open-ended code generation in which the agent's behavior is reshaped online by ve
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.12916v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Molecular dynamics (MD) is the canonical in-silico method for atomistic molecular science, simulating molecular behavior from first-principle physics.
- Designing an MD pipeline for a new system requires substantial expert knowledge: running it on even one molecule is expensive, ruling out trial-and-error.
- We automate this expert pipeline-design process with an LLM agent.
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