PhyVer: Physics-Grounded Material Claim Verification with Multi-Fidelity Physical Evidence
Jianpeng Chen, Wangzhi Zhan Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Haohui Wang, Brian Mayer Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dongqi Fu Meta, Dawei Zhou Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
原文摘要
Material claims in papers, patents, etc., often involve physical feasibility (e.g., stability under conditions, property consistency), not just textual feasibility. Yet most claim verifiers operate over language, therefore producing ungrounded judgments. On the other hand, directfirst-principles verification (e.g., density functional theory, DFT) is inflexible and hard to invoke from underspecified free-form claims.Therefore, we introduce PhyVer, a physics-grounded material claim verification system that bridges this gap by translating claimsinto multi-fidelity physical evidence and interpretable verdicts. To support human-in-the-loop inspection, we present an interactive web interface that visualizes the instantiated structure, optimization trajectories, DFT summaries, and the final decision. On expert-labeled claims, PhyVer improves agreement with experts over text-only GPT-5.1, reducing MAE from 1.54 to 1.20 and Signed MAE from0.95 to 0.82, and increasing Accuracy@±1 from 50% to 70%.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) · 2026 · 正式发表