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A central concern of molecular dynamics simulations are the potential energy surfaces that govern atomic interactions. These hypersurfaces define the potential energy of the system, and have generally been calculated using either predefined…

The representation of atomic configurations for machine learning models has led to the development of numerous descriptors, often to describe the local environment of atoms. However, many of these representations are incomplete and/or…

The applications of machine learning techniques to chemistry and materials science become more numerous by the day. The main challenge is to devise representations of atomic systems that are at the same time complete and concise, so as to…

Machine learning of the quantitative relationship between local environment descriptors and the potential energy surface of a system of atoms has emerged as a new frontier in the development of interatomic potentials (IAPs). Here, we…

We review some recently published methods to represent atomic neighbourhood environments, and analyse their relative merits in terms of their faithfulness and suitability for fitting potential energy surfaces. The crucial properties that…

Descriptors are physically-inspired schemes for representing atomistic systems that play a central role in the construction of models of potential energy surfaces. Although physical intuition can be flexibly encoded into descriptor schemes,…

The formulation of descriptors of the local chemical environment, enabling the construction of machine-learning models, is usually obtained by studying the properties of the expansion coefficients of a neighborhood density. In this work, we…

In this work we apply methods for describing 3D images to the problem of encoding atomic environments in a way that is invariant to rotations, translations, and permutations of the atoms and, crucially, can be decoded back into the original…

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…

We briefly summarize the kernel regression approach, as used recently in materials modelling, to fitting functions, particularly potential energy surfaces, and highlight how the linear algebra framework can be used to both predict and train…

Statistical learning algorithms are finding more and more applications in science and technology. Atomic-scale modeling is no exception, with machine learning becoming commonplace as a tool to predict energy, forces and properties of…

Faithfully representing chemical environments is essential for describing materials and molecules with machine learning approaches. Here, we present a systematic classification of these representations and then investigate: (i) the…

A set of molecular descriptors whose length is independent of molecular size is developed for machine learning models that target thermodynamic and electronic properties of molecules. These features are evaluated by monitoring performance…

We explore different ways to simplify the evaluation of the smooth overlap of atomic positions (SOAP) many-body atomic descriptor [Bart\'{o}k et al., Phys. Rev. B 87, 184115 (2013)]. Our aim is to improve the computational efficiency of…

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations with applications in many fields from chemistry to materials science. While most current MLPs are based…

The universal mathematical form of machine-learning potentials (MLPs) shifts the core of development of interatomic potentials to collecting proper training data. Ideally, the training set should encompass diverse local atomic environments…

Machine-learning (ML) has become a key workhorse in molecular simulations. Building an ML model in this context, involves encoding the information of chemical environments using local atomic descriptors. In this work, we focus on the Smooth…

Recent advances in machine-learned interatomic potentials largely benefit from the atomistic representation and locally invariant many-body descriptors. It was however recently argued that including three- (or even four-) body features is…

Data-driven, machine learning (ML) models of atomistic interactions are often based on flexible and non-physical functions that can relate nuanced aspects of atomic arrangements into predictions of energies and forces. As a result, these…

The high-throughput screening of periodic inorganic solids using machine learning methods requires atomic positions to encode structural and compositional details into appropriate material descriptors. These atomic positions are not…