L^2M^3OF: A Large Language Multimodal Model for Metal-Organic Frameworks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20976v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:12:46 GMT
• Title: L^2M^3OF: A Large Language Multimodal Model for Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Abstract summary: A compelling example is the design of functional materials such as MOFs for a range of impactful applications like carbon capture and hydrogen storage.<n>Navigating their vast and intricate design space in language-based representations interpretable by LLMs is challenging.<n>L2M3OF integrates crystal representation learning with language understanding to process structural, textual, and knowledge modalities jointly.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across diverse natural language tasks. However, comparable breakthroughs in scientific discovery are more limited, because understanding complex physical phenomena demands multifaceted representations far beyond language alone. A compelling example is the design of functional materials such as MOFs-critical for a range of impactful applications like carbon capture and hydrogen storage. Navigating their vast and intricate design space in language-based representations interpretable by LLMs is challenging due to the numerous possible three-dimensional atomic arrangements and strict reticular rules of coordination geometry and topology. Despite promising early results in LLM-assisted discovery for simpler materials systems, MOF design remains heavily reliant on tacit human expertise rarely codified in textual information alone. To overcome this barrier, we introduce L2M3OF, the first multimodal LLM for MOFs. L2M3OF integrates crystal representation learning with language understanding to process structural, textual, and knowledge modalities jointly. L2M3OF employs a pre-trained crystal encoder with a lightweight projection layer to compress structural information into a token space, enabling efficient alignment with language instructions. To facilitate training and evaluation, we curate a structure-property-knowledge database of crystalline materials and benchmark L2M3OF against state-of-the-art closed-source LLMs such as GPT-5, Gemini-2.5-Pro and DeepSeek-R1. Experiments show that L2M3OF outperforms leading text-based closed-source LLMs in property prediction and knowledge generation tasks, despite using far fewer parameters. These results highlight the importance of multimodal approaches for porous material understanding and establish L2M3OF as a foundation for next-generation AI systems in materials discovery.

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