TEFormer

Welcome to the TEFormer project!

TEFormer is a domain-specific transformer model designed for the thermoelectric materials research community.
It automatically ingests new papers from arXiv, predicts their potential citation impact, and recommends emerging studies.
Trained on thousands of arXiv publications using a custom BPE tokenizer and BERT encoder, it estimates log-normalized citation rates and classifies papers as “read” or “skip.” Deployed as an automated arXiv Evaluation API, it enables daily, data-driven literature triage. TEFormer improves RMSE over baseline models and quantifies researcher time savings. Future work includes expanding to other domains, integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) for enhanced reasoning, and building knowledge graphs to reveal emerging scientific connections.

Features

Model Test Results: Citation Prediction

Predicted vs. actual citation performance for 488 test papers
The model was tested on 488 thermoelectric papers. RMSE is computed on log(1 + citations / years since publication), normalizing for publication age. The diagonal line represents ideal prediction parity.

This Month’s Thermoelectric Papers

Below is a list of all papers published this month, sorted by predicted citation impact.
Papers we predict to be high-impact are highlighted with a ⭐.

# Title DOI Pred. impact index Published
1 ⭐ Outstanding figure of merit at high temperature for DFT-based predicted double perovskite oxides, Ba2GaXO6 (X = V, Nb, Ta) 10.48550/arXiv.2511.01134 1.84 2025-11-03
2 ⭐ Enhanced Thermoelectricity in Nanowires with inhomogeneous Helical states 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09903 1.83 2025-11-13
3 ⭐ Applicability of Electrical Conductivity Ratio Method to Complicated Band Structure and the Carrier Scattering Mechanisms of SnSe 10.48550/arXiv.2511.00522 1.58 2025-11-01
4 ⭐ A Brief Perspective on Piezotronic and Thermoelectric Coupling: Flexible Platforms for Synergistic Energy Scavenging and Peltier-Caloric Effects 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09757 1.58 2025-11-12
5 ⭐ Phonon-Dominated Thermal Transport and Large Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in Topological Semimetal CoSi 10.48550/arXiv.2511.06290 1.56 2025-11-12
6 High Thermoelectric Cooling Performance of Junction Thermoelectric Transistors 10.48550/arXiv.2511.05317 1.25 2025-11-07
7 Plasma hydrodynamics from mean force kinetic theory 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09786 1.22 2025-11-12
8 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hydrodynamic Transport Coefficients in Plasmas 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09787 1.17 2025-11-12
9 Designing new Zintl phases SrBaX (X = Si, Ge, Sn) for thermoelectric applications using ab initio techniques 10.48550/arXiv.2511.07031 1.16 2025-11-10
10 Topological end state and enhanced thermoelectric performance of a supramolecular device 10.48550/arXiv.2511.08943 1.14 2025-11-12
11 Plasmon resonance in a sub-THz graphene-based detector: theory and experiment 10.48550/arXiv.2511.06891 1.08 2025-11-10
12 Studying the thermoelectric properties of an anisotropic QGP medium 10.48550/arXiv.2511.03054 1.07 2025-11-04
13 Noises in a two-channel charge Kondo model 10.48550/arXiv.2511.02590 1.05 2025-11-04
14 Properties of multiterminal superconducting nanostructure with double quantum dot 10.48550/arXiv.2511.05988 1.00 2025-11-08

For the complete list of recommended papers, see:

👉 Full Recommended Papers List

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Developed by Yukun Liu.
Feel free to open issues or contribute via pull requests!