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The compact genetic algorithm (cGA) is an non-elitist estimation of distribution algorithm which has shown to be able to deal with difficult multimodal fitness landscapes that are hard to solve by elitist algorithms. In this paper, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Frank Neumann , Dirk Sudholt , Carsten Witt

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a class of metaheuristic global optimization methods inspired by the process of natural selection among individuals in a population. Despite their widespread use, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Giacomo Borghi , Lorenzo Pareschi

Knowledge of the atomic geometry of a surface is a prerequisite for any detailed understanding of the surface's electronic structure and chemical properties. Previous studies have convincingly demonstrated that density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Stampfl , M. Scheffler

We discuss a novel genetic algorithm that can be used to find global minima on the potential energy surface of disordered ceramics and alloys using a real-space symmetry adapted crossover. Due to a high number of symmetrically equivalent…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-31 Chris E. Mohn , Svein Stølen , Walter Kob

Thin-film solar cells are predominately designed similar to a stacked structure. Optimizing the layer thicknesses in this stack structure is crucial to extract the best efficiency of the solar cell. The commonplace method used in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Premkumar Vincent , Gwenaelle Cunha Sergio , Jaewon Jang , In Man Kang , Jaehoon Park , Hyeok Kim , Minho Lee , Jin-Hyuk Bae

Individual phases are commonly considered as the building blocks of materials. However, the accurate theoretical prediction of properties of individual phases remains elusive. The top-down approach by decoding genomic building blocks of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-17 Zi-Kui Liu

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to discover drug candidates by finding molecules (ligands) that bind tightly to a disease-related protein (targets), which is the primary approach to computer-aided drug discovery. Recently, applying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-01 Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley , Jimeng Sun

Accurate identification of protein-nucleotide binding sites is fundamental to deciphering molecular mechanisms and accelerating drug discovery. However, current computational methods often struggle with suboptimal performance due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiming Gao , Liuyi Xu , Pengshan Cui , Yining Qian , An-Yang Lu , Xianpeng Wang

We have developed a method that can analyze large random grain boundary (GB) models with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations using active learning. It is assumed that the atomic energy is represented by the linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-11 Tomoyuki Tamura , Masayuki Karasuyama

The prediction of material structure from chemical composition has been a long-standing challenge in natural science. Although there have been various methodological developments and successes with computer simulations, the prediction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Naoto Tsujimoto , Daiki Adachi , Ryosuke Akashi , Synge Todo , Shinji Tsuneyuki

Generative design marks a significant data-driven advancement in the exploration of novel inorganic materials, which entails learning the symmetry equivalent to the crystal structure prediction (CSP) task and subsequent learning of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ruiming Zhu , Wei Nong , Shuya Yamazaki , Kedar Hippalgaonkar

A computational method is presented which is capable to obtain low lying energy structures of topological amorphous systems. The method merges a differential mutation genetic algorithm with simulated annealing. This is done by incorporating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Katja Biswas

This paper presents an optimization technique for the multi-pass face milling process. Genetic algorithm (GA) is used to obtain the optimum cutting parameters by minimizing the unit production cost for a given amount of material removal.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-02-05 Sourabh Saha

Advances in generative artificial intelligence are transforming how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are designed and discovered. This Perspective introduces the shift from laborious enumeration of MOF candidates to generative approaches…

Engineering new glass compositions have experienced a sturdy tendency to move forward from (educated) trial-and-error to data- and simulation-driven strategies. In this work, we developed a computer program that combines data-driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Daniel R. Cassar , Gisele G. dos Santos , Edgar D. Zanotto

Predicting crystal structures from chemical compositions is a fundamental challenge in materials discovery, complicated by complex 3D geometries that distinguish it from fields like protein folding. Here, we present Diffusion-based Crystal…

The density functional theory (DFT) is the most versatile electronic structure method used in quantum chemical calculations, and is increasingly applied in astrochemical research. This mini-review provides an overview of the applications of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Qingli Liao , Junzhi Wang , Peng Xie , Enwei Liang , Zhao Wang

Theoretical simulation to phase change materials such as Ge-Sb-Te has suffered from two methodology issues. On the one hand, there is a lack of efficient band gap correction method for density functional theory, which is suitable for these…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-19 Shanzhong Xie , Kan-Hao Xue , Shaojie Yuan , Shengxin Yang , Heng Yu , Rongchuan Gu , Ming Xu , Xiangshui Miao

A large number of novel two-dimensional (2D) materials are constantly discovered and deposed into the databases. Consolidate implementation of machine learning algorithms and density functional theory (DFT) based predictions have allowed…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-03 Andrey A. Kistanov , Stepan A. Shcherbinin , Romain Botella , Artur Davletshin , Wei Cao

Nowadays genetic algorithm (GA) is greatly used in engineering pedagogy as an adaptive technique to learn and solve complex problems and issues. It is a meta-heuristic approach that is used to solve hybrid computation challenges. GA…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tanweer Alam , Shamimul Qamar , Amit Dixit , Mohamed Benaida