GOLLuM Fixes LLM Overconfidence in Science via Uncertainty Training
bravo_abad · x · 2026-08-29
Addressing LLM overconfidence in science, GOLLuM trains a language model jointly with a Gaussian process to learn from experimental outcomes under uncertainty.
Key Results:
- Ranked first on average across 23 tasks in synthesis, materials, and molecular design.
- Achieves results comparable to traditional Bayesian optimization with 40% fewer experiments.
- Nearly doubles the discovery of high-yield reactions vs expert descriptors and frontier LLMs (43% vs 24–25%) starting from just ten failed experiments.
In contrast, prompting GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude to optimize directly showed failure rates up to 80% due to hallucinated molecules, duplicates, and invalid suggestions.
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