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Can Polat, Mustafa Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban
Large language models confabulate chemical objects (molecular formulas, space groups, formation energies) in fluent reasoning traces, concentrated on long-tail entities where confidence is least trustworthy. Deterministic, database-grounded verification can catch and repair such…
Samir Abdaljalil, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban
We introduce ISOSCI, a benchmark of isomorphic cross-domain science problem pairs that separates reasoning ability from domain knowledge retrieval in LLM evaluation. Each pair shares identical logical structure but requires different domain-specific knowledge, enabling controlled…
Aseel Mohamed, Rama AlHamidi, Mohamed Rayan Barhdadi, Rasul Khanbayov, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban
Agentic Video Question Answering (VideoQA) systems invoke tools during inference, but their tool libraries are fixed, so recurring procedures are rebuilt from primitives on every question. Synthesizing composite tools could remove this overhead, but whether such expansion helps i…
Rasul Khanbayov, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban
Prototype-based medical image classifiers present three clinical limitations: they treat findings as independent, silently amplify unsafe physician feedback, and require full retraining whenever a new finding is needed. We present GRAPE (Graph-Augmented Prototype Explanations), a…
Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban
A central premise of autonomous scientific imaging is that smarter navigation, whether Bayesian, RL-based, or otherwise adaptive, is the principal lever for sample-efficient acquisition. We present evidence to the contrary in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), an a…
Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban
$\mathrm{Cl}(3,0)$ interatomic potentials, despite their algebraic elegance, predict force magnitudes accurately but force directions poorly. Across ten rMD17 molecules, every $L \leq 1$ baseline in our twelve-model study attains aggregate force-cosine similarity below $0.25$. Th…