ARIA: A Causal-Aware Framework for Rescuing LLM Reasoning in Trustworthy Materials Discovery
Researchers introduce ARIA, a causal-aware framework that improves how Large Language Models reason about materials discovery by addressing 'contextual tunneling'—a bias where models over-rely on narrow retrieved evidence. ARIA uses a three-tier approach combining direct causal reasoning, physics-informed analogies, and parametric fallbacks, validated on a knowledge graph of 2,839 materials relations, enabling more trustworthy and auditable AI-assisted scientific discovery.