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The enormous structural and chemical diversity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) forces researchers to actively use simulation techniques on an equal footing with experiments. MOFs are widely known for outstanding adsorption properties, so…

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In [1, 2], we have explored the theoretical aspects of feature extraction optimization processes for solving largescale problems and overcoming machine learning limitations. Majority of optimization algorithms that have been introduced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Selectivity estimation aims at estimating the number of database objects that satisfy a selection criterion. Answering this problem accurately and efficiently is essential to many applications, such as density estimation, outlier detection,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yaoshu Wang , Chuan Xiao , Jianbin Qin , Rui Mao , Onizuka Makoto , Wei Wang , Rui Zhang , Yoshiharu Ishikawa

The large-scale search for high-performing candidate 2D materials is limited to calculating a few simple descriptors, usually with first-principles density functional theory calculations. In this work, we alleviate this issue by extending…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Victor Venturi , Holden Parks , Zeeshan Ahmad , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

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We consider interacting Fermi systems close to the unitary regime and compute the corrections to the energy density that are due to a large scattering length and a small effective range. Our approach exploits the universality of the density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 Anirban Bhattacharyya , T. Papenbrock

The excess free energy functional of classical density functional theory depends upon the type of fluid model, specifically on the choice of (pair) potential, is unknown in general, and is approximated reliably only in special cases. We…

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Machine learning (ML)-accelerated discovery requires large amounts of high-fidelity data to reveal predictive structure-property relationships. For many properties of interest in materials discovery, the challenging nature and high cost of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Aditya Nandy , Chenru Duan , Heather J. Kulik

We show that deep neural networks can be integrated into, or fully replace, the Kohn-Sham density functional theory scheme for multi-electron systems in simple harmonic oscillator and random external potentials with no feature engineering.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-25 Kevin Ryczko , David Strubbe , Isaac Tamblyn

Drawing inspiration from the domain of image super-resolution, we view the electron density as a 3D grayscale image and use a convolutional residual network to transform a crude and trivially generated guess of the molecular density into an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Chenghan Li , Or Sharir , Shunyue Yuan , Garnet K. Chan

We propose machine learning (ML) models to predict the electron density -- the fundamental unknown of a material's ground state -- across the composition space of concentrated alloys. From this, other physical properties can be inferred,…

Density modelling is the task of learning an unknown probability density function from samples, and is one of the central problems of unsupervised machine learning. In this work, we show that there exists a density modelling problem for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Niklas Pirnay , Ryan Sweke , Jens Eisert , Jean-Pierre Seifert

A combination of systematic density functional theory (DFT) calculations and machine learning techniques has a wide range of potential applications. This study presents an application of the combination of systematic DFT calculations and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 Atsuto Seko , Tomoya Maekawa , Koji Tsuda , Isao Tanaka

We study constrained reinforcement learning (CRL) from a novel perspective by setting constraints directly on state density functions, rather than the value functions considered by previous works. State density has a clear physical and…

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Machine learning models have emerged as a very effective strategy to sidestep time-consuming electronic-structure calculations, enabling accurate simulations of greater size, time scale and complexity. Given the interpolative nature of…

Current system thermal-hydraulic codes have limited credibility in simulating real plant conditions, especially when the geometry and boundary conditions are extrapolated beyond the range of test facilities. This paper proposes a…

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Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

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In molecular simulations, machine-learning force fields can achieve ab initio accuracy at a lower cost but remain limited in the explicit modeling of electrons. In this work, we develop an electron-aware machine-learning force field, in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Ruiqi Gao , Pinchen Xie , Roberto Car

Density functional calculations for the electronic conductance of single molecules are now common. We examine the methodology from a rigorous point of view, discussing where it can be expected to work, and where it should fail. When…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Max Koentopp , Connie Chang , Kieron Burke , Roberto Car

Accurate charge densities are essential for reliable electronic structure calculations because they significantly impact predictions of various chemical properties and in particular, according to the Hellmann-Feynman theorem, atomic forces.…

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