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In a previous paper [Fan Z \textit{et al}. 2021 Phys. Rev. B, \textbf{104}, 104309], we developed the neuroevolution potential (NEP), a framework of training neural network based machine-learning potentials using a natural evolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zheyong Fan

Combining multiple machine learning models has long been a technique for enhancing performance, particularly in distributed settings. Traditional approaches, such as model ensembles, work well, but are expensive in terms of memory and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Albert Manuel Orozco Camacho , Stefan Horoi , Guy Wolf , Eugene Belilovsky

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) are becoming powerful tools for performing accurate atomistic simulations and crystal structure optimizations. An approach to developing MLPs employs a systematic set of polynomial invariants including…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Atsuto Seko

Large-scale foundation models, including neural network interatomic potentials (NIPs) in computational materials science, have demonstrated significant potential. However, despite their success in accelerating atomistic simulations, NIPs…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-24 So Yeon Kim , Yang Jeong Park , Ju Li

Neural network potentials (NNPs) are crucial for accelerating computational materials science by surrogating density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Improving their accuracy is possible through pre-training and fine-tuning, where an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yosuke Oyama , Yusuke Majima , Eiji Ohta , Yasufumi Sakai

High-fidelity physics simulations are powerful tools in the design and optimization of charged particle accelerators. However, the computational burden of these simulations often limits their use in practice for design optimization and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Auralee Edelen , Nicole Neveu , Yannick Huber , Mattias Frey , Christopher Mayes , Andreas Adelmann

A generalized understanding of protein dynamics is an unsolved scientific problem, the solution of which is critical to the interpretation of the structure-function relationships that govern essential biological processes. Here, we approach…

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

While machine learning approaches have been successfully used to represent interatomic potentials, their speed has typically lagged behind conventional formalisms. This is often due to the complexity of the structural fingerprints used to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Doyl Dickel , Mashroor Nitol , Christopher Barrett

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) with broad chemical flexibility are important for atomistic simulations of compositionally complex materials such as high-entropy alloys. Here, we study two state-of-the-art MLIP frameworks,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Fei Shuang , Penghua Ying , Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Fengxian Liu , Zheyong Fan , Minqiang Jiang , Poulumi Dey

Recent developments in many-body potential energy representation via deep learning have brought new hopes to addressing the accuracy-versus-efficiency dilemma in molecular simulations. Here we describe DeePMD-kit, a package written in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Weinan E

The development of reliable and extensible molecular mechanics (MM) force fields -- fast, empirical models characterizing the potential energy surface of molecular systems -- is indispensable for biomolecular simulation and computer-aided…

Coarse-graining (CG) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of larger systems and longer timescales that are otherwise infeasible with atomistic models. Machine learning potentials (MLPs), with their capacity to capture many-body…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Weilong Chen , Franz Görlich , Paul Fuchs , Julija Zavadlav

Computational prediction of enzyme mechanism and protein function requires accurate physics-based models and suitable sampling. We discuss recent advances in large-scale quantum mechanical (QM) modeling of biochemical systems that have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Vyshnavi Vennelakanti , Azadeh Nazemi , Rimsha Mehmood , Adam H. Steeves , Heather J. Kulik

We propose a neural physics system for real-time, interactive fluid simulations. Traditional physics-based methods, while accurate, are computationally intensive and suffer from latency issues. Recent machine-learning methods reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingxuan Xu , Hong Huang , Chuhang Zou , Manolis Savva , Yunchao Wei , Wuyang Chen

Molecular dynamics simulates the~movements of atoms. Due to its high cost, many methods have been developed to "push the~simulation forward". One of them, metadynamics, can hasten the~molecular dynamics with the~help of variables describing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Jana Pazúriková , Jaroslav Oľha , Aleš Křenek , Vojtěch Spiwok

Machine learning (ML)-based steering can improve the performance of ensemble-based simulations by allowing for online selection of more scientifically meaningful computations. We present DeepDriveMD, a framework for ML-driven steering of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Alexander Brace , Igor Yakushin , Heng Ma , Anda Trifan , Todd Munson , Ian Foster , Arvind Ramanathan , Hyungro Lee , Matteo Turilli , Shantenu Jha

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of complex electrochemical systems, such as ionic liquid supercapacitors, are increasingly including the constant potential method (CPM) to model conductive electrodes at specified potential difference,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-13 Shern R. Tee , Debra J. Searles

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational changes through MD simulations is challenging due to the relatively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-20 Diego E. Kleiman , Hassan Nadeem , Diwakar Shukla

Non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) simulations have become an indispensable tool for investigating excited-state dynamics in solids. In this work, we propose a general framework, N$^2$AMD which employs an E(3)-equivariant deep neural…