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The use of high-dimensional regression techniques from machine learning has significantly improved the quantitative accuracy of interatomic potentials. Atomic simulations can now plausibly target quantitative predictions in a variety of…

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Numerous phenomenological nuclear models have been proposed to describe specific observables within different regions of the nuclear chart. However, developing a unified model that describes the complex behavior of all nuclei remains an…

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Machine learning (ML) has become a commonplace approach in the development of interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics simulations, and its use also for radiation effect modelling is increasing. In this work, we investigate the effects…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 A. Fellman , J. Byggmästar , F. Granberg , F. Djurabekova , K. Nordlund

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations have an enormous prospective impact on materials modeling, offering orders of magnitude speedup over density functional theory (DFT) calculations without appreciably sacrificing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Dylan Bayerl , Christopher M. Andolina , Shyam Dwaraknath , Wissam A. Saidi

One compelling vision of the future of materials discovery and design involves the use of machine learning (ML) models to predict materials properties and then rapidly find materials tailored for specific applications. However, realizing…

First-principles atomistic simulations are essential for understanding complex material phenomena but are fundamentally limited by their computational cost. While Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have drastically improved…

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mitchell A. Wood , Mary Alice Cusentino , Brian D. Wirth , Aidan P. Thompson

Machine learning (ML) methods are being used in almost every conceivable area of electronic structure theory and molecular simulation. In particular, ML has become firmly established in the construction of high-dimensional interatomic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Julia Westermayr , Michael Gastegger , Kristof T. Schütt , Reinhard J. Maurer

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used in metrology applications. However, for ML models to be credible in a metrology context they should be accompanied by principled uncertainty quantification. This paper addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Andrew Thompson

Interatomic potentials are essential for driving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, directly impacting the reliability of predictions regarding the physical and chemical properties of materials. In recent years, machine-learned potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Penghua Ying , Cheng Qian , Rui Zhao , Yanzhou Wang , Feng Ding , Shunda Chen , Zheyong Fan

Machine-learned interatomic potentials are revolutionising atomistic materials simulations by providing accurate and scalable predictions within the scope covered by the training data. However, generation of an accurate and robust training…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Mariia Radova , Wojciech G. Stark , Connor S. Allen , Reinhard J. Maurer , Albert P. Bartók

The length and time scales of atomistic simulations are limited by the computational cost of the methods used to predict material properties. In recent years there has been great progress in the use of machine learning algorithms to develop…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Alberto Hernandez , Adarsh Balasubramanian , Fenglin Yuan , Simon Mason , Tim Mueller

In this paper we test two strategies to improving the accuracy of machine-learning potentials, namely adding more fitting parameters thus making use of large volumes of available quantum-mechanical data, and adding a charge-equilibration…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Ivan S. Novikov , Alexander V. Shapeev

We assess the accuracy of six universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for predicting the temperature and pressure response of materials by molecular dynamics simulations. Accuracy is evaluated across 13 diverse materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Konstantin Stracke , Connor W. Edwards , Jack D. Evans

In the past two decades, machine learning potentials (MLP) have reached a level of maturity that now enables applications to large-scale atomistic simulations of a wide range of systems in chemistry, physics and materials science. Different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Emir Kocer , Tsz Wai Ko , Jörg Behler

The predictive capabilities of machine learning (ML) models used in materials discovery are typically measured using simple statistics such as the root-mean-square error (RMSE) or the coefficient of determination ($r^2$) between…

We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 Giulio Benedini , Antoine Loew , Matti Hellstrom , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

Machine learning (ML) models for molecules and materials commonly rely on a decomposition of the global target quantity into local, atom-centered contributions. This approach is convenient from a computational perspective, enabling…

Revealing and analyzing the various properties of materials is an essential and critical issue in the development of materials, including batteries, semiconductors, catalysts, and pharmaceuticals. Traditionally, these properties have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Limin Wang , Masatoshi Hanai , Toyotaro Suzumura , Shun Takashige , Kenjiro Taura

The widespread application of machine learning (ML) to the chemical sciences is making it very important to understand how the ML models learn to correlate chemical structures with their properties, and what can be done to improve the…