Material Database Agent: A Multimodal Agentic Framework for Scientific Literature Mining

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04278v1
• Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 20:30:45 GMT
• Title: Material Database Agent: A Multimodal Agentic Framework for Scientific Literature Mining
• Abstract summary: Multimodal large language models have made it feasible to extract information from text and scientific figures with high speed and accuracy.<n>Material Database Agent (MDA) is a modular, multi-agent system architecture for converting research literature into structured databases.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Materials science workflows rely on structured and unstructured data from the vast body of available scientific literature. However, most of the experimental details remain buried in text, tables, graphs and figures. Thus, constructing databases that incorporate this data is a manual, time-consuming, and hard-to-scale process. Multimodal large language models have made it feasible to extract information from text and scientific figures with high speed and accuracy. This opens the possibility of an AI system that can create production-scale material databases. Material Database Agent (MDA) is a modular, multi-agent system architecture for converting research literature into structured databases. MDA accepts article PDFs as input, which are subsequently processed in parallel into markdown files and figures. Multiple sub-agents read these markdown files and figures in parallel to assemble sub-databases for each paper. These sub-databases are then compiled into a single tabular database by an agent. As opposed to using either a rule-based approach or a single-pass pipeline for extracting information, MDA is a specialized architecture for transforming the literature into a database in the field of materials science. More generally, this study provides a basis for positioning multimodal agentic information extraction as a viable means for constructing next-generation scientific databases from the primary literature.

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