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This paper introduces the Chemical Environment Modeling Theory (CEMT), a novel, generalized framework designed to overcome the limitations inherent in traditional atom-centered Machine Learning Force Field (MLFF) models, widely used in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Xiangyun Lei , Weike Ye , Joseph Montoya , Tim Mueller , Linda Hung , Jens Hummelshoej

Recently, the machine learning force field has emerged as a powerful atomic simulation approach for its high accuracy and low computational cost. However, its applications in the multi-component materials are relatively less. In this study,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-06 Wenwen Li , Yasunobu Ando

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) promise to accurately describe the potential energy surface of molecules at the ab initio level of theory with improved computational efficiency. Within MLFFs, equivariant graph neural networks (EQNNs)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Orlando A. Mendible , Jonathan K. Whitmer , Yamil J. Colón

Machine learning (ML) force fields have emerged as a powerful tool for computing materials properties at finite temperatures, particularly in regimes where traditional phonon-based perturbation theories fail or cannot be extended beyond the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Martin Callsen , Tai-Ting Lee , Mei-Yin Chou

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-15 Bartosz Barzdajn , Christopher P. Race

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) have revolutionized molecular simulations by providing quantum mechanical accuracy at the speed of molecular mechanical computations. However, a fundamental reliance of these models on fixed-cutoff…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Chu Wang , Lin Huang , Xinran Wei , Tao Qin , Arthur Jiang , Lixue Cheng , Jia Zhang

Simulating atomic-scale processes, such as protein dynamics and catalytic reactions, is crucial for advancements in biology, chemistry, and materials science. Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) have emerged as powerful tools that achieve…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Lars L. Schaaf , Ilyes Batatia , Christoph Brunken , Thomas D. Barrett , Jules Tilly

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) and force fields (i.e. interaction laws for atoms and molecules) are typically trained on limited data-sets that cover only a very small section of the full space of possible input structures.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

Point defects play a central role in driving the properties of materials. First-principles methods are widely used to compute defect energetics and structures, including at scale for high-throughput defect databases. However, these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Evan Dramko , Yihuang Xiong , Yizhi Zhu , Geoffroy Hautier , Thomas Reps , Christopher Jermaine , Anastasios Kyrillidis

A force field as accurate as quantum mechanics (QM) and as fast as molecular mechanics (MM), with which one can simulate a biomolecular system efficiently enough and meaningfully enough to get quantitative insights, is among the most ardent…

Machine-learned force fields (MLFFs), especially pre-trained foundation models, are transforming computational materials science by enabling ab initio-level accuracy at molecular dynamics scales. Yet their rapid rise raises a key question:…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yi Cao , Paulette Clancy

We explore the application of computer vision and machine learning (ML) techniques to predict material properties (e.g. compressive strength) based on SEM images. We show that it's possible to train ML models to predict materials…

In this article, we present a systematic study in developing machine learning force fields (MLFF) for crystalline silicon. While the main-stream approach of fitting a MLFF is to use a small and localized training sets from molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Howard Yanxon , David Zagaceta , Brandon C. Wood , Qiang Zhu

Recent works have shown the promise of learning pre-trained models for 3D molecular representation. However, existing pre-training models focus predominantly on equilibrium data and largely overlook off-equilibrium conformations. It is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Rui Feng , Qi Zhu , Huan Tran , Binghong Chen , Aubrey Toland , Rampi Ramprasad , Chao Zhang

Machine learning (ML) enables the development of interatomic potentials that promise the accuracy of first principles methods while retaining the low cost and parallel efficiency of empirical potentials. While ML potentials traditionally…

The prediction of chemical properties using Machine Learning (ML) techniques calls for a set of appropriate descriptors that accurately describe atomic and, on a larger scale, molecular environments. A mapping of conformational information…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Martin P. Bircher , Andreas Singraber , Christoph Dellago

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation techniques are widely used for various natural science applications. Increasingly, machine learning (ML) force field (FF) models begin to replace ab-initio simulations by predicting forces directly from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Xiang Fu , Zhenghao Wu , Wujie Wang , Tian Xie , Sinan Keten , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli , Tommi Jaakkola

In this work, we introduce CHIPS-FF (Computational High-Performance Infrastructure for Predictive Simulation-based Force Fields), a universal, open-source benchmarking platform for machine learning force fields (MLFFs). This platform…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Daniel Wines , Kamal Choudhary

Advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have enabled the development of interatomic potentials that promise both the accuracy of first principles methods and the low-cost, linear scaling, and parallel efficiency of empirical…

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are an increasingly popular choice for atomistic simulations due to their high fidelity and improvable nature. Here, we propose a hybrid small-cell approach that combines attributes of both offline and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Yu Luo , Jason A. Meziere , German D. Samolyuk , Gus L. W. Hart , Mark R Daymond , Laurent Karim Béland