Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 30 October 2026 · From issue 60

In-context learning as a retraining-free paradigm for constitutive modeling

In simulations and lab tests, one trained model predicted stress in materials it had never seen.

Lingfeng Li, Zhuoyuan Li et al.

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