English
Related papers

Related papers: Crystal Structure Prediction by Joint Equivariant …

200 papers

Equivariant diffusion models have emerged as the prevailing approach for generating novel crystal materials due to their ability to leverage the physical symmetries of periodic material structures. However, current models do not effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kishalay Das , Subhojyoti Khastagir , Pawan Goyal , Seung-Cheol Lee , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Niloy Ganguly

Crystal structures are defined by the periodic arrangement of atoms in 3D space, inherently making them equivariant to SO(3) group. A fundamental requirement for crystal property prediction is that the model's output should remain invariant…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Haowei Hua , Wanyu Lin

In computational chemistry, crystal structure prediction (CSP) is an optimization problem that involves discovering the lowest energy stable crystal structure for a given chemical formula. This problem is challenging as it requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Han Qi , Xinyang Geng , Stefano Rando , Iku Ohama , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the generation of realistic data by training generative models on large datasets of text, images, and audio. While these models have demonstrated exceptional performance in generating novel and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-17 Izumi Takahara , Kiyou Shibata , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

Prediction of stable crystal structures at given pressure-temperature conditions, based only on the knowledge of the chemical composition, is a central problem of condensed matter physics. This extremely challenging problem is often termed…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 A. R. Oganov , Y. Ma , A. O. Lyakhov , M. Valle , C. Gatti

Novel materials drive advancements in fields ranging from energy storage to electronics, with crystal structure characterization forming a crucial yet challenging step in materials discovery. In this work, we introduce \emph{deCIFer}, an…

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

Crystalline materials often exhibit a high level of symmetry. However, most generative models do not account for symmetry, but rather model each atom without any constraints on its position or element. We propose a generative model, Wyckoff…

Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Kamal Choudhary

The application of generative models in crystal structure prediction (CSP) has gained significant attention. Conditional generation--particularly the generation of crystal structures with specified stability or other physical properties has…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Takanori Ishii , Kaoru Hisama , Kohei Shinohara

Exploring the vast composition space of multi-component alloys presents a challenging task for both \textit{ab initio} (first principles) and experimental methods due to the time-consuming procedures involved. This ultimately impedes the…

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization of the extremely rugged high-dimensional potential energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 Xuecheng Shao , Jian Lv , Peng Liu , Sen Shao , Pengyue Gao , Hanyu Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

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.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Sherry Yang , KwangHwan Cho , Amil Merchant , Pieter Abbeel , Dale Schuurmans , Igor Mordatch , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Generative models hold the promise of significantly expediting the materials design process when compared to traditional human-guided or rule-based methodologies. However, effectively generating high-quality periodic structures of materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Anshuman Sinha , Shuyi Jia , Victor Fung

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged as one of the most important approaches for discovering new materials. CSP algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization have discovered a great number of new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Accurately predicting experimentally realizable 3D molecular crystal structures from their 2D chemical graphs is a long-standing open challenge in computational chemistry called crystal structure prediction (CSP). Efficiently solving this…

The large amount of powder diffraction data for which the corresponding crystal structures have not yet been identified suggests the existence of numerous undiscovered, physically relevant crystal structure prototypes. In this paper, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 Abhijith S. Parackal , Rhys E. A. Goodall , Felix A. Faber , Rickard Armiento

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…

Materials property predictions have improved from advances in machine learning algorithms, delivering materials discoveries and novel insights through data-driven models of structure-property relationships. Nearly all available models rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Yiqun Wang , Xiao-Jie Zhang , Fei Xia , Elsa A. Olivetti , Ram Seshadri , James M. Rondinelli

Determining whether a candidate crystalline material is thermodynamically stable depends on identifying its true ground-state structure, a central challenge in computational materials science. We introduce CrystalGRW, a diffusion-based…