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Organic molecular crystals underpin technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to organic electronics, yet predicting solid-state packing of molecules remains challenging because candidate generation is combinatorial and stability is only…

Inorganic crystals are periodic, highly-symmetric arrangements of atoms in three-dimensional space. Their structures are constrained by the symmetry operations of a crystallographic \emph{space group} and restricted to lie in specific…

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Solving black-box optimization problems with Ising machines is increasingly common in materials science. However, their application to crystal structure prediction (CSP) is still ineffective due to symmetry agnostic encoding of atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Chen Liang , Diptesh Das , Jiang Guo , Ryo Tamura , Zetian Mao , Koji Tsuda

We present a stochastic trust-region model-based framework in which its radius is related to the probabilistic models. Especially, we propose a specific algorithm, termed STRME, in which the trust-region radius depends linearly on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Xiaoyu Wang , Ya-xiang Yuan

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

The problem we consider is a multi-objective optimization problem, in which the goal is to find an optimal value of a vector function representing various criteria. The aim of this work is to develop an algorithm which utilizes the trust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Luka Rutešić

Successful scientific applications of large-scale molecular dynamics often rely on automated methods for identifying the local crystalline structure of condensed phases. Many existing methods for structural identification, such as Common…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-24 Peter Mahler Larsen , Søren Schmidt , Jakob Schiøtz

Crystal structure determines properties of materials. With the crystal structure of a chemical substance, many physical and chemical properties can be predicted by first-principles calculations or machine learning models. Since it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Jianjun Hu

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 forms the foundation for understanding the physical and chemical properties of materials. Generative models have emerged as a new paradigm in crystal structure prediction(CSP), however, accurately capturing key…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Ziyi Chen , Yang Yuan , Siming Zheng , Jialong Guo , Sihan Liang , Yangang Wang , Zongguo Wang

Crystal Structure Prediction (csp) is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. In csp, the goal is to find a configuration of ions in 3D space that yields the lowest potential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Duncan Adamson , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Igor Potapov

The increasing availability of full-field displacement data from imaging techniques in experimental mechanics is determining a gradual shift in the paradigm of material model calibration and discovery, from using several simple-geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Saeid Ghouli , Moritz Flaschel , Siddhant Kumar , Laura De Lorenzis

We present our exhaustive exploration of the densest ternary sphere packings (DTSPs) for 45 radius ratios and 237 kinds of compositions, which is a packing problem of three kinds of hard spheres with different radii, under periodic boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ryotaro Koshoji , Taisuke Ozaki

Categorical structural optimization under aleatoric uncertainty is challenging because each design variable must be selected from a finite catalog of admissible instances, while each candidate design may require expensive stochastic…

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Stochastic partition models tailor a product space into a number of rectangular regions such that the data within each region exhibit certain types of homogeneity. Due to constraints of partition strategy, existing models may cause…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Xuhui Fan , Bin Li , Yi Wang , Yang Wang , Fang Chen

Solving stochastic optimal control problems with quadratic control costs can be viewed as approximating a target path space measure, e.g. via gradient-based optimization. In practice, however, this optimization is challenging in particular…

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Promise CSPs are a relaxation of constraint satisfaction problems where the goal is to find an assignment satisfying a relaxed version of the constraints. Several well-known problems can be cast as promise CSPs including approximate graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Joshua Brakensiek , Venkatesan Guruswami

A routine crystallography technique, crystal structure analysis, is rarely performed in computational condensed matter research. The lack of methods to identify and characterize crystal structures reliably in particle simulation data…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-29 Michael Engel

We introduce a computational method to optimize target physical properties in the full configuration space regarding atomic composition, chemical stoichiometry, and crystal structure. The approach combines the universal potential of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-03 Guanjian Cheng , Xin-Gao Gong , Wan-Jian Yin

Mathematical crystal chemistry views crystal structures as the optimal solutions of mathematical optimization problem formalizing inorganic structural chemistry. This paper introduces the minimum and maximum atomic radii depending on the…

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