arxivcs.LG2026-07-09
MatBind: A Shared Embedding Space for Multimodal Materials Characterization
Le Yang, Anoop K. Chandran, Jona Östreicher, Evgenii Sovetkin, Adrian Mirza, Sebastien Bompas, et al.
Fully characterizing a crystalline material requires integrating heterogeneous data sources -- atomic structures, diffraction patterns, electronic density of states, and natural language -- each of which captures a different facet of the same physical object. In practice, however…