English
Related papers

Related papers: MUSE: Multi-algorithm collaborative crystal struct…

200 papers

Safety evaluation and red-teaming of large language models remain predominantly text-centric, and existing frameworks lack the infrastructure to systematically test whether alignment generalizes to audio, image, and video inputs. We present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhongxi Wang , Yueqian Lin , Jingyang Zhang , Hai Helen Li , Yiran Chen

Identifying optimal synthesis conditions for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is a major challenge that can serve as a bottleneck for new materials discovery and development. Trial-and-error approach that relies on a chemist's intuition and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-01 Hyunsoo Park , Yeonghun Kang , Wonyoung Choe , Jihan Kim

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-18 A. R. Oganov , C. W. Glass

The reason behind the remarkable properties of High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs) is rooted in the diverse phases and the crystal structures they contain. In the realm of material informatics, employing machine learning (ML) techniques to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Debsundar Dey , Suchandan Das , Anik Pal , Santanu Dey , Chandan Kumar Raul , Arghya Chatterjee

We present a novel framework to bootstrap Motion forecasting with Self-consistent Constraints (MISC). The motion forecasting task aims at predicting future trajectories of vehicles by incorporating spatial and temporal information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Maosheng Ye , Jiamiao Xu , Xunnong Xu , Tengfei Wang , Tongyi Cao , Qifeng Chen

In recent years, various methods have been proposed for mesh analysis, each offering distinct advantages and often excelling on different object classes. We present a novel Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework designed to harness the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Amir Belder , Ayellet Tal

When it comes to stock returns, any form of predictability can bolster risk-adjusted profitability. We develop a collaborative machine learning algorithm that optimizes portfolio weights so that the resulting synthetic security is maximally…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-04-08 Philippe Goulet Coulombe , Maximilian Goebel

Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications. However, in practice it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Sander van Rijn , Hao Wang , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

User simulators are essential for the scalable training and evaluation of interactive AI systems. However, existing approaches often rely on shallow user profiling, struggle to maintain persona consistency over long interactions, and are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zihao Liu , Hantao Zhou , Jiguo Li , Jun Xu , Jiuchong Gao , Jinghua Hao , Renqing He , Peng Wang

While evolutionary computation is well suited for automatic discovery in engineering, it can also be used to gain insight into how humans and organizations could perform more effectively. Using a real-world problem of innovation search in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Erkin Bahceci , Riitta Katila , Risto Miikkulainen

We have developed a powerful method for crystal structure prediction from "scratch" through particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm within the evolutionary scheme. PSO technique is dramatically different with the genetic algorithm and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-11 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates neural network design, improving efficiency over manual approaches. However, efficiently discovering high-performance neural network architectures that simultaneously optimize multiple objectives…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , Yong Zhang , Ran Cheng , Kaizhou Gao , Dunwei Gong

Metaheuristic algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) excel at exploring solution spaces but lack mechanisms to accumulate and reuse procedural knowledge from successful search trajectories.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Shanxian Lin , Yuichi Nagata , Haichuan Yang

Recent advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs) have significantly enhanced the prediction of material properties by modeling crystal structures as graphs. However, GNNs often struggle to capture global structural characteristics, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jaewan Lee , Changyoung Park , Hongjun Yang , Sungbin Lim , Woohyung Lim , Sehui Han

We propose a new unbiased estimator for estimating the utility of the optimal stopping problem. The MUSE, short for Multilevel Unbiased Stopping Estimator, constructs the unbiased Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) estimator at every stage of…

Computation · Statistics 2022-12-29 Zhengqing Zhou , Guanyang Wang , Jose Blanchet , Peter W. Glynn

The prediction of energetically stable crystal structures formed by a given chemical composition is a central problem in solid-state physics. In principle, the crystalline state of assembled atoms can be determined by optimizing the energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Minoru Kusaba , Chang Liu , Ryo Yoshida

A novel method for crystal structure prediction, based on metadynamics and evolutionary algorithms, is presented here. This technique can be used to produce efficiently both the ground state and metastable states easily reachable from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-08 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Andriy O. Lyakhov

Designing effective reward functions remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning, especially in multi-objective environments. In this work, we propose Multi-Objective Reward Shaping with Exploration (MORSE), a general framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuqing Xie , Jiayu Chen , Wenhao Tang , Ya Zhang , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

The recently developed evolutionary algorithm USPEX proved to be a tool that enables accurate and reliable prediction of structures for a given chemical composition. Here we extend this method to predict the crystal structure of polymers by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-03 Qiang Zhu , Vinit Sharma , Artem R Oganov , Rampi Ramprasad

Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Yu Xin , Peng Liu , Zhuohang Xie , Wenhui Mi , Pengyue Gao , Hong Jian Zhao , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma