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I present a strategy for unsupervised manifold learning on local atomic environments in molecular simulations based on simple rotation- and permutation-invariant three-body features. These features are highly descriptive, generalize to…

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Determination of crystal structures of nanocrystalline or amorphous compounds is a great challenge in solid states chemistry and physics. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-Ray or neutron total scattering data has proven to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Magnus Kløve , Sanna Sommer , Bo B. Iversen , Bjørk Hammer , Wilke Dononelli

Detecting and analyzing the local environment is crucial for investigating the dynamical processes of crystal nucleation and shape colloidal particle self-assembly. Recent developments in machine learning provide a promising avenue for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-20 Shih-Kuang , Lee , Sun-Ting Tsai , Sharon Glotzer

The ability to reliably predict the structures and stabilities of a molecular crystal and its polymorphs without any prior experimental information would be an invaluable tool for a number of fields, with specific and immediate applications…

The machine learning based approaches efficiently solve the goal of searching the best materials candidate for the targeted properties. The search for topological materials using traditional first-principles and symmetry-based methods often…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-23 Zodinpuia Ralte , Ramesh Kumar , Mukhtiyar Singh

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) for inorganic materials is one of the central and most challenging problems in materials science and computational chemistry. This problem can be formulated as a global optimization problem in which global…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianjun Hu , Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane

Crystalline materials are widely used in technological applications, yet their discovery remains a significant challenge. As their properties are driven by structure, crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods play a central role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Stavros Gerolymatos , J. Kyle Brubaker , Martin J. A. Schuetz , Vladimir V. Gusev

Physicochemical characterization of materials is central to the field of science and engineering and is essential to design new/engineered materials with specific properties. Assays available for small-molecules, e.g., XRD, NMR, LC-MS,…

The discovery of new multicomponent inorganic compounds can provide direct solutions to many scientific and engineering challenges, yet the vast size of the uncharted material space dwarfs current synthesis throughput. While the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Sungwoo Kang , Wonseok Jeong , Changho Hong , Seungwoo Hwang , Youngchae Yoon , Seungwu Han

Labeling training data is a key bottleneck in the modern machine learning pipeline. Recent weak supervision approaches combine labels from multiple noisy sources by estimating their accuracies without access to ground truth labels; however,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-15 Paroma Varma , Frederic Sala , Ann He , Alexander Ratner , Christopher Ré

In computational molecular and materials science, determining equilibrium structures is the crucial first step for accurate subsequent property calculations. However, the recent discovery of millions of new crystals and complex twisted…

Machine-learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations are a promising alternative to conventional classical potentials. Current approaches rely on descriptors of the local atomic environment with dimensions that increase…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-05 Nongnuch Artrith , Alexander Urban , Gerbrand Ceder

Analyses of stellar spectra often begin with the determination of a number of parameters that define a model atmosphere. This work presents a prototype for an automated spectral classification system that uses a 15 nm-wide region around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Allende Prieto

Chemical abundance determinations from stellar spectra are challenged by observational noise, limitations in stellar models, and departures from simplifying assumptions. While traditional and supervised machine learning methods have made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Theosamuele Signor , Paula Jofré , Hernan Lira , Sara Vitali , Luis Martí , Nayat Sánchez-Pi

Recent advances in scanning transmission electron and scanning probe microscopies have opened exciting opportunities in probing the materials structural parameters and various functional properties in real space with angstrom-level…

Predicting crystal structures from chemical compositions is a fundamental challenge in materials discovery, complicated by complex 3D geometries that distinguish it from fields like protein folding. Here, we present Diffusion-based Crystal…

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted growing attention for their exceptional mechanical and thermal properties arising from complex atomic configurations. In this paper, we propose crystal fractional graph neural network for predicting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Takanori Kotama , Yang Huang

We propose fine-tuning large language models for generation of stable materials. While unorthodox, fine-tuning large language models on text-encoded atomistic data is simple to implement yet reliable, with around 90% of sampled structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Nate Gruver , Anuroop Sriram , Andrea Madotto , Andrew Gordon Wilson , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Zachary Ulissi

Elimination of unknowns in a system of differential equations is often required when analysing (possibly nonlinear) dynamical systems models, where only a subset of variables are observable. One such analysis, identifiability, often relies…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Ruiwen Dong , Christian Goodbrake , Heather A Harrington , Gleb Pogudin

Crystal structure prediction (CSP), which aims to predict the three-dimensional atomic arrangement of a crystal from its composition, is central to materials discovery and mechanistic understanding. However, given the composition in a unit…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-10 Shi Yin , Jinming Mu , Xudong Zhu , Linxin He