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Discovering new materials is a challenging task in materials science crucial to the progress of human society. Conventional approaches based on experiments and simulations are labor-intensive or costly with success heavily depending on…

Due to the vast chemical space, discovering materials with a specific function is challenging. Chemical formulas are obligated to conform to a set of exacting criteria such as charge neutrality, balanced electronegativity, synthesizability,…

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Conventional generative models for materials discovery are predominantly trained and validated using data from Density Functional Theory (DFT) with approximate exchange-correlation functionals. This creates a fundamental bottleneck: these…

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Generative models based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been widely studied in the fields of image generation, speech generation, and drug discovery, but, only a few studies have focused on…

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High-throughput screening has become one of the major strategies for the discovery of novel functional materials. However, its effectiveness is severely limited by the lack of quantity and diversity of known materials deposited in the…

Generative design marks a significant data-driven advancement in the exploration of novel inorganic materials, which entails learning the symmetry equivalent to the crystal structure prediction (CSP) task and subsequent learning of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-22 Ruiming Zhu , Wei Nong , Shuya Yamazaki , Kedar Hippalgaonkar

Deep learning based generative models such as deepfake have been able to generate amazing images and videos. However, these models may need significant transformation when applied to generate crystal materials structures in which the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Yong Zhao , Edirisuriya MD Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

In this study, we employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to accelerate the discovery of novel 2D magnetic materials which have transformative potential in spintronics applications. Using data from the Materials Project database and the…

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Generative models have achieved impressive results in many domains including image and text generation. In the natural sciences, generative models have led to rapid progress in automated drug discovery. Many of the current methods focus on…

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We developed an inverse design framework enabling automated generation of stable multi-component crystal structures by optimizing the formation energies in the latent space based on reversible crystal graphs with continuous representation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Teng Long , Yixuan Zhang , Nuno M. Fortunato , Chen Shen , Mian Dai , Hongbin Zhang

The large-scale search for high-performing candidate 2D materials is limited to calculating a few simple descriptors, usually with first-principles density functional theory calculations. In this work, we alleviate this issue by extending…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Victor Venturi , Holden Parks , Zeeshan Ahmad , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Generative models trained on internet-scale data are capable of generating novel and realistic texts, images, and videos. A natural next question is whether these models can advance science, for example by generating novel stable materials.…

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Controllable data generation aims to synthesize data by specifying values for target concepts. Achieving this reliably requires modeling the underlying generative factors and their relationships. In real-world scenarios, these factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Qilong Zhao , Shiyu Wang , Zeeshan Memon , Yang Qiao , Guangji Bai , Bo Pan , Zhaohui Qin , Liang Zhao

Generative models have become significant assets in the exploration and identification of new materials, enabling the rapid proposal of candidate crystal structures that satisfy target properties. Despite the increasing adoption of diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Charles Rhys Campbell , Aldo H. Romero , Kamal Choudhary

The discovery of new functional and stable materials is a big challenge due to its complexity. This work aims at the generation of new crystal structures with desired properties, such as chemical stability and specified chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Arsen Sultanov , Jean-Claude Crivello , Tabea Rebafka , Nataliya Sokolovska

Developing inverse design methods for functional materials with specific properties is critical to advancing fields like renewable energy, catalysis, energy storage, and carbon capture. Generative models based on diffusion principles can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Hao Sun , Zhong-Yi Lu

For a very long time, computational approaches to the design of new materials have relied on an iterative process of finding a candidate material and modeling its properties. AI has played a crucial role in this regard, helping to…

Predicting drop coalescence based on process parameters is crucial for experiment design in chemical engineering. However, predictive models can suffer from the lack of training data and more importantly, the label imbalance problem. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Kewei Zhu , Sibo Cheng , Nina Kovalchuk , Mark Simmons , Yi-Ke Guo , Omar K. Matar , Rossella Arcucci

We present a materials generation framework that couples a symmetry-conditioned variational autoencoder (CVAE) with a differentiable SO(3) power spectrum objective to steer candidates toward a specified local environment under the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 Osman Goni Ridwan , Gilles Frapper , Hongfei Xue , Qiang Zhu

The constant demand for new functional materials calls for efficient strategies to accelerate the materials design and discovery. In addressing this challenge, machine learning generative models can offer promising opportunities since they…

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