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Yadi Cao

5 accepted papers

2026

SimulCost: A Cost-Aware Benchmark and Toolkit for Automating Physics Simulations with LLMs

ICML 2026poster

Evaluating LLM agents for scientific tasks has focused on token costs while ignoring tool-use costs like simulation time and experimental resources. As a result, metrics like pass@k become impractical under realistic budget constraints. To address this gap, we introduce SimulCost, the first benchmar…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Adapting While Learning: Grounding LLMs for Scientific Problems with Tool Usage Adaptation

ICML 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate promising capabilities in solving scientific problems but often suffer from the issue of hallucination. While integrating LLMs with tools can mitigate this issue, models fine-tuned on tool usage become overreliant on them and incur unnecessary costs. Insp…

2024

Physics-Informed Regularization for Domain-Agnostic Dynamical System Modeling

NeurIPS 2024poster

Learning complex physical dynamics purely from data is challenging due to the intrinsic properties of systems to be satisfied. Incorporating physics-informed priors, such as in Hamiltonian Neural Networks (HNNs), achieves high-precision modeling for energy-conservative systems. However, real-world s…

2023

Efficient Learning of Mesh-Based Physical Simulation with Bi-Stride Multi-Scale Graph Neural Network

ICML 2023poster

Learning the long-range interactions on large-scale mesh-based physical systems with flat Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and stacking Message Passings (MPs) is challenging due to the scaling complexity w.r.t. the number of nodes and over-smoothing. Therefore, there has been growing interest in the com…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar
2022

PlasticityNet: Learning to Simulate Metal, Sand, and Snow for Optimization Time Integration

NeurIPS 2022accept

In this paper, we propose a neural network-based approach for learning to represent the behavior of plastic solid materials ranging from rubber and metal to sand and snow. Unlike elastic forces such as spring forces, these plastic forces do not result from the positional gradient of any potential en…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar