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Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are deployed for high-throughput materials screening without formal reliability guarantees. We show that a single MLIP used as a stability filter misses 93% of density functional theory…

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We develop an automated variational method for inference in models with Gaussian process (GP) priors and general likelihoods. The method supports multiple outputs and multiple latent functions and does not require detailed knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Edwin V. Bonilla , Karl Krauth , Amir Dezfouli

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) are widely applied as an efficient alternative way to represent potential energy surfaces (PES) in many chemical simulations. The MLPs are often evaluated with the root-mean-square errors on the test set…

Generalized additive partial linear models (GAPLMs) are appealing for model interpretation and prediction. However, for GAPLMs, the covariates and the degree of smoothing in the nonparametric parts are often difficult to determine in…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-06 Ze Chen , Jun Liao , Wangli Xu , Yuhong Yang

Over the past decade inter-atomic potentials based on machine-learning (ML) techniques have become an indispensable tool in the atomic-scale modeling of materials. Trained on energies and forces obtained from electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-15 Michele Ceriotti

The optimization of atomic structures plays a pivotal role in understanding and designing materials with desired properties. However, conventional computational methods often struggle with the formidable task of navigating the vast…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Peder Lyngby , Casper Larsen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

As the atomistic simulations of materials science move from traditional potentials to machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP), the field is entering the second phase focused on discovering and explaining new material phenomena. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-27 Musanna Galib , Mewael Isiet , Mauricio Ponga

Outlier detection of semiconductor devices is important since manufacturing variation is inherently inevitable. In order to properly detect outliers, it is necessary to consider the discrepancy from underlying trend. Conventional methods…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Kyohei Shimozato , Michihiro Shintani , Takashi Sato

The vastness of chemical space makes generalization a central challenge in the development of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). While MLIPs could enable large-scale atomistic simulations with near-quantum accuracy, their…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Michal Sanocki , Julija Zavadlav

Machine learning interatomic potentials (ML-IAPs) enable quantum-accurate, classical molecular dynamics simulations of large systems, beyond reach of density functional theory (DFT). Yet, their efficiency and ability to predict systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Gábor Csányi , Erik van der Giessen , Francesco Maresca

Gaussian process regression (GPR) model is well-known to be susceptible to outliers. Robust process regression models based on t-process or other heavy-tailed processes have been developed to address the problem. However, due to the nature…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-10 Wang Zhanfeng , Noh Maengseok , Lee Youngjo , Shi Jianqing

A common task is the determination of system parameters from spectroscopy, where one compares the experimental spectrum with calculated spectra, that depend on the desired parameters. Here we discuss an approach based on a machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Farhad Taher-Ghahramani , Fulu Zheng , Alexander Eisfeld

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have introduced a new paradigm for atomic simulations. Recent advancements have seen the emergence of universal MLIPs (uMLIPs) that are pre-trained on diverse materials datasets, providing…

Gaussian processes (GPs) are popular as nonlinear regression models for expensive computer simulations, yet GP performance relies heavily on estimation of unknown covariance parameters. Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is common, but it…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Ayumi Mutoh , Annie S. Booth , Jonathan W. Stallrich

Probabilistic models are often used to make predictions in regions of the data space where no observations are available, but it is not always clear whether such predictions are well-informed by previously seen data. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Kurt Butler , Guanchao Feng , Tong Chen , Petar Djuric

Gaussian process regression (GPR) is a non-parametric Bayesian technique for interpolating or fitting data. The main barrier to further uptake of this powerful tool rests in the computational costs associated with the matrices which arise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-16 Christopher J. Moore , Alvin J. K. Chua , Christopher P. L. Berry , Jonathan R. Gair

An estimation problem of fundamental interest is that of phase synchronization, in which the goal is to recover a collection of phases using noisy measurements of relative phases. It is known that in the Gaussian noise setting, the maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Huikang Liu , Man-Chung Yue , Anthony Man-Cho So

In a Bayesian learning setting, the posterior distribution of a predictive model arises from a trade-off between its prior distribution and the conditional likelihood of observed data. Such distribution functions usually rely on additional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-01 Andrea Schirru , Simone Pampuri , Giuseppe De Nicolao , Sean McLoone

Koopman Operator Theory has opened the doors to data-driven learning of globally linear representations of complex nonlinear systems. However, current methodologies for Koopman Operator discovery struggle with uncertainty quantification and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Abhigyan Majumdar , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

We develop a novel framework to accelerate Gaussian process regression (GPR). In particular, we consider localization kernels at each data point to down-weigh the contributions from other data points that are far away, and we derive the GPR…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-19 Davit Gogolashvili , Bogdan Kozyrskiy , Maurizio Filippone