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Predicting properties of crystals from their structures is a fundamental yet challenging task in materials science. Unlike molecules, crystal structures exhibit infinite periodic arrangements of atoms, requiring methods capable of capturing…

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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…

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The identification of materials with exceptional properties is an essential objective to enable technological progress. We propose the application of \textit{Quality-Diversity} algorithms to the field of crystal structure prediction. The…

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Crystalline materials, with symmetrical and periodic structures, exhibit a wide spectrum of properties and have been widely used in numerous applications across electronics, energy, and beyond. For crystalline materials discovery,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhenzhong Wang , Haowei Hua , Wanyu Lin , Ming Yang , Kay Chen Tan

Finding new materials with previously unknown atomic structure or materials with optimal set of properties for a specific application greatly benefits from computational modeling. Recently, such screening has been dramatically accelerated…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-11 Ethan Berger , Mohammad Bagheri , Hannu-Pekka Komsa

Crystal graph neural networks are widely applicable in modeling experimentally synthesized compounds and hypothetical materials with unknown synthesizability. In contrast, structure-agnostic predictive algorithms allow exploring previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Ivan Rubtsov , Ivan Dudakov , Yuri Kuratov , Vadim Korolev

Machine learning has the potential to accelerate materials discovery by accurately predicting materials properties at a low computational cost. However, the model inputs remain a key stumbling block. Current methods typically use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Rhys E. A. Goodall , Alpha A. Lee

Machine Learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for fast and accurate prediction of different crystalline properties. Exiting state-of-the-art models rely on a single modality of crystal data i.e. crystal graph structure, where they…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Kishalay Das , Pawan Goyal , Seung-Cheol Lee , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Niloy Ganguly

This paper develops a new continuous approach to a similarity between periodic lattices of ideal crystals. Quantifying a similarity between crystal structures is needed to substantially speed up the Crystal Structure Prediction, because the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Marco Michele Mosca , Vitaliy Kurlin

We develop and analyze a framework for consistent QM/MM (quantum/classic) hybrid models of crystalline defects, which admits general atomistic interactions including traditional off-the-shell interatomic potentials as well as state of art…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Huajie Chen , Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

We propose a method for crystal structure prediction based on a new structure generation algorithm and on-lattice machine learning interatomic potentials. Our algorithm generates the atomic configurations assigning atomic species to sites…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-08 Vadim Sotskov , Alexander V. Shapeev , Evgeny V. Podryabinkin

Computational prediction of stable crystal structures has a profound impact on the large-scale discovery of novel functional materials. However, predicting the crystal structure solely from a material's composition or formula is a promising…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Yuqi Song , Rongzhi Dong , Lai Wei , Qin Li , Jianjun Hu

Machine learning (ML) based interatomic potentials are emerging tools for materials simulations but require a trade-off between accuracy and speed. Here we show how one can use one ML potential model to train another: we use an existing,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-20 Joe D. Morrow , Volker L. Deringer

Crystal structures are indispensable across various domains, from batteries to solar cells, and extensive research has been dedicated to predicting their properties based on their atomic configurations. However, prevailing Crystal Structure…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Hannah Janmohamed , Marta Wolinska , Shikha Surana , Thomas Pierrot , Aron Walsh , Antoine Cully

The accuracy of molecular simulations is fundamentally limited by the interatomic potentials that govern atomic interactions. Traditional potential development, which relies heavily on ab initio calculations, frequently struggles to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-16 Ruoxia Chen , Kai Yang , Morten M. Smedskjaer , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Jaime Marian , Fabian Rosner

Machine-learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized materials modeling at the atomic scale. Thanks to these, it is now indeed possible to perform simulations of \abinitio quality over very large time and length scales. More…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Haochen Yu , Matteo Giantomassi , Giuliana Materzanini , Junjie Wang , Gian-Marco Rignanese

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

We introduce a class of interatomic potential models that can be automatically generated from data consisting of the energies and forces experienced by atoms, derived from quantum mechanical calculations. The resulting model does not have a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Albert P. Bartók , Mike C. Payne , Risi Kondor , Gábor Csányi

Machine learning has become a crucial tool for predicting the properties of crystalline materials. However, existing methods primarily represent material information by constructing multi-edge graphs of crystal structures, often overlooking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chao Huang , Chunyan Chen , Ling Shi , Chen Chen

Crystal structures can be simplified as a periodic point set that repeats across three-dimensional space along an underlying lattice. Traditionally, crystal representation methods characterize the structure using descriptors such as lattice…