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Machine learning (ML) is widely used to explore crystal materials and predict their properties. However, the training is time-consuming for deep-learning models, and the regression process is a black box that is hard to interpret. Also, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-22 Xinyu Jiang , Haofan Sun , Kamal Choudhary , Houlong Zhuang , Qiong Nian

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

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

We have developed a method for prediction of the hardest crystal structures in a given chemical system. It is based on the evolutionary algorithm USPEX (Universal Structure Prediction: Evolutionary Xtallography) and electronegativity-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-25 Andriy O. Lyakhov , Artem R. Oganov

Determining the stability of chemical compounds is essential for advancing material discovery. In this study, we introduce a novel deep neural network model designed to predict a crystal's formation energy, which identifies its stability…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-21 V. Torlao , E. A. Fajardo

Machine learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized complex materials design by enabling rapid exploration of material configurational spaces via crystal structure prediction with ab initio accuracy. However, critical challenges…

Universal machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) have become powerful tools for accelerating computational materials discovery by replacing expensive first-principles calculations in crystal structure prediction (CSP). However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-04 Yuqi An , Zhenbin Wang

Crystal structure prediction algorithms have become powerful tools for materials discovery in recent years, however, they are usually limited to relatively small systems. The main challenge is that the number of local minima grows…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-09 Hao Gao , Junjie Wang , Yu Han , Jian Sun

We develop a method combining machine learning (ML) and density functional theory (DFT) to predict low-energy polymorphs by introducing physics-guided descriptors based on structural distortion modes. We systematically generate crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Bastien F. Grosso , Nicola A. Spaldin , Aria Mansouri Tehrani

Computational prediction of stable crystal structures has a profound impact on the large-scale discovery of novel functional materials. However, predicting the crystal structure solely from a material's composition or formula is a promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qin Li , Jianjun Hu

We propose an efficient computational methodology for predicting the synthesizability of high entropy oxides (HEOs) in a large space of possible candidate compounds. HEOs are a growing field with an enormous potential chemical composition…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Oliver A. Dicks , Solveig S. Aamlid , Alannah M. Hallas , Joerg Rottler

Machine learning has the potential to accelerate materials discovery by accurately predicting materials properties at a low computational cost. However, the model inputs remain a key stumbling block. Current methods typically use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Alpha A. Lee

Reliable and robust methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its chemical composition, is crucial to the study of materials and their applications. Despite considerable ongoing research efforts, crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-26 Qi-Jun Hong , Joseph Yasi , Axel van de Walle

We present a genetic algorithm (GA) for structural search that combines the speed of structure exploration by classical potentials with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations in an adaptive and iterative way. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-06 S. Q. Wu , M. Ji , C. Z. Wang , M. C. Nguyen , X. Zhao , K. Umemoto , R. M. Wentzcovitch , K. M. Ho

First-principles based crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods have revealed an essential tool for the discovery of new materials. However, in solids close to displacive phase transitions, which are common in ferroelectrics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Hao Gao , Yue-Wen Fang , Ion Errea

We develop and test new machine learning strategies for accelerating molecular crystal structure ranking and crystal property prediction using tools from geometric deep learning on molecular graphs. Leveraging developments in graph-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-29 Michael Kilgour , Jutta Rogal , Mark Tuckerman

Possible crystalline modifications of chemical compounds at low temperatures correspond to local minima of the energy landscape. Determining these minima via simulated annealing is one method for the prediction of crystal structures, where…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-31 K. Doll , J. C. Schoen , M. Jansen

The allotropes of boron continue to challenge structural elucidation and solid-state theory. Here we use machine learning combined with random structure searching (RSS) algorithms to systematically construct an interatomic potential for…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-18 Volker L. Deringer , Chris J. Pickard , Gábor Csányi

One of the great challenges of modern science is to faithfully model, and understand, matter at a wide range of scales. Starting with atoms, the vastness of the space of possible configurations poses a formidable challenge to any simulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-28 Sebastian E. Ahnert , William P. Grant , Chris J. Pickard

We study property prediction for crystal materials. A crystal structure consists of a minimal unit cell that is repeated infinitely in 3D space. How to accurately represent such repetitive structures in machine learning models remains…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Yuchao Lin , Keqiang Yan , Youzhi Luo , Yi Liu , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji