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Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) is crucial in various scientific disciplines. While CSP can be addressed by employing currently-prevailing generative models (e.g. diffusion models), this task encounters unique challenges owing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-08 Rui Jiao , Wenbing Huang , Peijia Lin , Jiaqi Han , Pin Chen , Yutong Lu , Yang Liu

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

The structure-property hypothesis says that the properties of all materials are determined by an underlying crystal structure. The main obstacle was the ambiguity of conventional crystal representations based on incomplete or discontinuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Jonathan Balasingham , Viktor Zamaraev , Vitaliy Kurlin

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

Diffraction is the most common method to solve for unknown or partially known crystal structures. However, it remains a challenge to determine the crystal structure of a new material that may have nanoscale size or heterogeneities. Here we…

Crystalline structure prediction is an essential prerequisite for designing materials with targeted properties. Yet, it is still an open challenge in materials design and drug discovery. Despite recent advances in computational materials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Emmanuel Jehanno , Romain Menegaux , Julien Mairal , Sergei Grudinin

Materials property predictions have improved from advances in machine learning algorithms, delivering materials discoveries and novel insights through data-driven models of structure-property relationships. Nearly all available models rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Yiqun Wang , Xiao-Jie Zhang , Fei Xia , Elsa A. Olivetti , Ram Seshadri , James M. Rondinelli

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

Efficiently and accurately determining the symmetry is a crucial step in the structural analysis of crystalline materials. Existing methods usually mindlessly apply deep learning models while ignoring the underlying chemical rules. More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Liheng Yu , Zhe Zhao , Xucong Wang , Di Wu , Pengkun Wang

We study Crystal Structure Prediction, one of the major problems in computational chemistry. This is essentially a continuous optimization problem, where many different, simple and sophisticated, methods have been proposed and applied. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Dmytro Antypov , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Matthew J. Rosseinsky , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is crucial for identifying stable crystal structures in given systems and is a prerequisite for computational atomistic simulations. Recent advances in neural network potentials (NNPs) have reduced the…

Geometric information such as the space groups and crystal systems plays an important role in the properties of crystal materials. Prediction of crystal system and space group thus has wide applications in crystal material property…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuxin Li , Rongzhi Dong , Wenhui Yang , Jianjun Hu

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged as one of the most important approaches for discovering new materials. CSP algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization have discovered a great number of new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Crystalline materials are widely used in technological applications, yet their discovery remains a significant challenge. As their properties are driven by structure, crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods play a central role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Stavros Gerolymatos , J. Kyle Brubaker , Martin J. A. Schuetz , Vladimir V. Gusev

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

Machine learning (ML) is becoming increasingly popular for predicting material properties to accelerate materials discovery. Because material properties are strongly affected by its crystal structure, a key issue is converting the crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-12 Hirofumi Tsuruta , Yukari Katsura , Masaya Kumagai

Crystal structure prediction with theoretical methods is particularly challenging when unit cells with many atoms need to be considered. Here we employ a symmetry-driven structure search (SYDSS) method and combine it with density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 Rustin Domingos , Kareemullah M. Shaik , Burkhard Militzer

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

We have developed a powerful method for crystal structure prediction from "scratch" through particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm within the evolutionary scheme. PSO technique is dramatically different with the genetic algorithm and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-11 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

The large amount of powder diffraction data for which the corresponding crystal structures have not yet been identified suggests the existence of numerous undiscovered, physically relevant crystal structure prototypes. In this paper, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Abhijith S. Parackal , Rhys E. A. Goodall , Felix A. Faber , Rickard Armiento