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The promise of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) has led to an abundance of public quantum mechanical (QM) training datasets. The quality of an MLIP is directly limited by the accuracy of the energies and atomic forces in the…

Machine learning potentials have become an important tool for atomistic simulations in many fields, from chemistry via molecular biology to materials science. Most of the established methods, however, rely on local properties and are thus…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Tsz Wai Ko , Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker , Jörg Behler

Molecular dynamics simulations have been extensively used to predict thermal properties, but simulating different phases with similar precision using a unified force field is often difficult, due to the lack of accurate and transferrable…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-12 Ruiyang Li , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy and have been applied across various domains in physical science. However, their performance often relies on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Taoyong Cui , Zhongyao Wang , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang

Given the power of large language and large vision models, it is of profound and fundamental interest to ask if a foundational model based on data and parameter scaling laws and pre-training strategies is possible for learned simulations of…

Neural network potentials (NNPs) are crucial for accelerating computational materials science by surrogating density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Improving their accuracy is possible through pre-training and fine-tuning, where an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yosuke Oyama , Yusuke Majima , Eiji Ohta , Yasufumi Sakai

We develop a neuroevolution-potential (NEP) framework for generating neural network based machine-learning potentials. They are trained using an evolutionary strategy for performing large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zheyong Fan , Zezhu Zeng , Cunzhi Zhang , Yanzhou Wang , Haikuan Dong , Yue Chen , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Machine learning (ML) has become widely used in the development of interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics simulations. However, most ML potentials are still much slower than classical interatomic potentials and are usually trained…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Aslak Fellman , Jesper Byggmästar , Fredric Granberg , Kai Nordlund , Flyura Djurabekova

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) represent atomic interactions with quantum mechanical accuracy offering an efficient tool for atomistic simulations in many fields of science. However, most MLPs rely on local atomic energies without…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Emir Kocer , Redouan El Haouari , Christoph Dellago , Jörg Behler

In recent years, artificial neural networks and their applications for large data sets have became a crucial part of scientific research. In this work, we implement the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), which is a class of feedforward artificial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-10 Esra Yüksel , Derya Soydaner , Hüseyin Bahtiyar

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are routinely used atomic simulations, but generating databases of atomic configurations used in fitting these models is a laborious process, requiring significant computational and human…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-26 Connor Allen , Albert P. Bartók

Optimizing training performance in large language models (LLMs) remains an essential challenge, particularly in improving model performance while maintaining computational costs. This work challenges the conventional approach of training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chun-Hao Yang , Bo-Han Feng , Tzu-Yuan Lai , Yan Yu Chen , Yin-Kai Dean Huang , Shou-De Lin

The tremendous recent progress in analyzing the training dynamics of overparameterized neural networks has primarily focused on wide networks and therefore does not sufficiently address the role of depth in deep learning. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jongmin Lee , Joo Young Choi , Ernest K. Ryu , Albert No

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a powerful tool to extend the time and length scales of first principles-quality simulations. Still, most machine learning potentials cannot distinguish different electronic spin orientations and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Marco Eckhoff , Jörg Behler

Multi-plane light converter (MPLC) designs supporting hundreds of modes are attractive in high-throughput optical communications. These photonic structures typically comprise >10 phase masks in free space, with millions of independent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Zheyuan Zhu , Joe H. Doerr , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

We propose minimum risk training for end-to-end neural machine translation. Unlike conventional maximum likelihood estimation, minimum risk training is capable of optimizing model parameters directly with respect to arbitrary evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Shiqi Shen , Yong Cheng , Zhongjun He , Wei He , Hua Wu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

The increasing capabilities of Machine Learning (ML) models go hand in hand with an immense amount of data and computational power required for training. Therefore, training is usually outsourced into HPC facilities, where we have started…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Sabrina Herbst , Vincenzo De Maio , Ivona Brandic

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been rapidly adopted by smart Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) due to their powerful decision-making capabilities. However, they are vulnerable to various security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Muhammad Shafique , Mahum Naseer , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos Kyrkou , Onur Mutlu , Lois Orosa , Jungwook Choi

Machine learning (ML)-based interatomic potentials are currently garnering a lot of attention as they strive to achieve the accuracy of electronic structure methods at the computational cost of empirical potentials. Given their generic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Mariia Karabin , Danny Perez

Moment Tensor Potentials (MTPs) are machine-learning interatomic potentials whose basis functions are typically selected using a level-based scheme that is data-agnostic. We introduce a post-training, cost-aware pruning strategy that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Zijian Meng , Karim Zongo , Matthew Thoms , Ryan Eric Grant , Laurent Karim Béland