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While crystal structure prediction (CSP) remains a longstanding challenge, we introduce ParetoCSP, a novel algorithm for CSP, which combines a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) with a neural network inter-atomic potential (IAP) model…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-14 Sadman Sadeed Omee , Lai Wei , Jianjun Hu

This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) method to predict stable molecular geometries from their chemical composition. The method is useful for generating molecular conformations which may serve as initial geometries for saving time…

Data-driven machine learning methods have the potential to dramatically accelerate the rate of materials design over conventional human-guided approaches. These methods would help identify or, in the case of generative models, even create…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-28 Victor Fung , Shuyi Jia , Jiaxin Zhang , Sirui Bi , Junqi Yin , P. Ganesh

Crystal structure prediction has traditionally relied on prototype-based seeding, approaches that often bias sampling toward known low-energy basins and overlook metastable polymorphs with unconventional symmetries. Here, we introduce…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiexi Song , Diwei Shi , Aixian She , Chongde Cao , Fengyuan Xuan

We present an investigation into diffusion models for molecular generation, with the aim of better understanding how their predictions compare to the results of physics-based calculations. The investigation into these models is driven by…

Crystal structure prediction is a central problem of theoretical crystallography and materials science, which until mid-2000s was considered intractable. Several methods, based on either energy landscape exploration$^{1,2}$ or, more…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-26 Ivan A. Kruglov , Alexey V. Yanilkin , Yana Propad , Artem R. Oganov

Machine learning has demonstrated great power in materials design, discovery, and property prediction. However, despite the success of machine learning in predicting discrete properties, challenges remain for continuous property prediction.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Zhantao Chen , Nina Andrejevic , Tess Smidt , Zhiwei Ding , Yen-Ting Chi , Quynh T. Nguyen , Ahmet Alatas , Jing Kong , Mingda Li

Predicting physical properties of materials from their crystal structures is a fundamental problem in materials science. In peripheral areas such as the prediction of molecular properties, fully connected attention networks have been shown…

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Novel materials drive advancements in fields ranging from energy storage to electronics, with crystal structure characterization forming a crucial yet challenging step in materials discovery. In this work, we introduce \emph{deCIFer}, an…

High-throughput computational screening has emerged as a critical component of materials discovery. Direct density functional theory (DFT) simulation of inorganic materials and molecular transition metal complexes is often used to describe…

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We present a specially designed evolutionary algorithm for the prediction of surface reconstructions. This new technique allows one to automatically explore all the low-energy configurations with variable surface atoms and variable surface…

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While density functional theory (DFT) serves as a prevalent computational approach in electronic structure calculations, its computational demands and scalability limitations persist. Recently, leveraging neural networks to parameterize the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yang Zhong , Hongyu Yu , Jihui Yang , Xingyu Guo , Hongjun Xiang , Xingao Gong

When creating training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs), it is common to create initial structures and evolve them using molecular dynamics to sample a larger configuration space. We benchmark two other modalities of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Michael J. Waters , James M. Rondinelli

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit exceptional properties arising from a combination of thermodynamic, kinetic and structural factors and have found applications in numerous fields such as aerospace, energy, chemical industries, hydrogen…

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We introduce and evaluate a set of feature vector representations of crystal structures for machine learning (ML) models of formation energies of solids. ML models of atomization energies of organic molecules have been successful using a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Felix Faber , Alexander Lindmaa , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Rickard Armiento

We present a quantitatively accurate machine-learning (ML) model for the computational prediction of core-electron binding energies, from which x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) spectra can be readily obtained. Our model combines…

Recently, sophisticated deep learning-based approaches have been developed for generating efficient initial guesses to accelerate the convergence of density functional theory (DFT) calculations. While the actual initial guesses are often…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhe Liu , Yuyan Ni , Zhichen Pu , Qiming Sun , Siyuan Liu , Wen Yan

Machine-learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations are a promising alternative to conventional classical potentials. Current approaches rely on descriptors of the local atomic environment with dimensions that increase…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-05 Nongnuch Artrith , Alexander Urban , Gerbrand Ceder

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…

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