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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) achieve excellent accuracy when trained on large Density Functional Theory (DFT) data. To be useful in practice, they must often be adapted to target chemistries using small and expensive…

An adaptive physics-inspired model design strategy for machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) is proposed. This strategy relies on iterative reconfigurations of composite models from single-term models, followed by a unified…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Weishi Wang , Mark K. Transtrum , Vincenzo Lordi , Vasily V. Bulatov , Amit Samanta

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

A machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) for multilayer MoS2 was developed using the ultra-fast force field (UF3) framework. The UF3 MLIP reproduces key properties in strong agreement with DFT including lattice constants, interlayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Emir Bilgili , Nicholas Taormina , Richard Hennig , Simon R. Phillpot , Youping Chen

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have proven to be wildly useful for molecular dynamics simulations, powering countless drug and materials discovery applications. However, MLIPs face two primary bottlenecks preventing them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kevin Han , Haolin Cong , Bowen Deng , Amir Barati Farimani

Fracture toughness ($K_\mathrm{Ic}$) and fracture strength ($\sigma_\mathrm{f}$) are key criteria in the selection and design of reliable ceramics. However, their experimental characterization remains challenging -- especially for ceramic…

The rapid emergence of universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (uMLIPs) has transformed materials modeling. However, a comprehensive understanding of their generalization behavior across configurational space remains an open…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-30 Hossein Tahmasbi , Andreas Knüpfer , Thomas D. Kühne , Hossein Mirhosseini

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) promise to significantly advance atomistic simulations by delivering quantum-level accuracy for large molecular systems at a fraction of the computational cost of traditional electronic…

The introduction of modern Machine Learning Potentials (MLP) has led to a paradigm change in the development of potential energy surfaces for atomistic simulations. By providing efficient access to energies and forces, they allow to perform…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Alea Miako Tokita , Jörg Behler

The subject of this paper is the technology (the "how") of constructing machine-learning interatomic potentials, rather than science (the "what" and "why") of atomistic simulations using machine-learning potentials. Namely, we illustrate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Ivan S. Novikov , Konstantin Gubaev , Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Alexander V. Shapeev

Universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (uMLIPs) enable atomistic simulations and high-throughput screening at scales far beyond those accessible with density functional theory (DFT). However, most existing uMLIPs are trained on…

Local curvature of potential energy surfaces is critical for predicting certain experimental observables of molecules and materials from first principles, yet it remains far beyond reach for complex systems. In this work, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bangchen Yin , Jian Ouyang , Zhen Fan , Kailai Lin , Hanshi Hu , Dingshun Lv , Weiluo Ren , Hai Xiao , Ji Chen , Changsu Cao

The relaxation of atomic positions to their optimal structural arrangement is crucial for understanding the emergence of new physical behavior in long scale superstructures in twisted bilayers of two-dimensional materials. The amount of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-22 Samuel J. Magorrian , Anas Siddiqui , Nicholas D. M. Hine

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are deployed for high-throughput materials screening without formal reliability guarantees. We show that a single MLIP used as a stability filter misses 93% of density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Abhinaba Basu , Pavan Chakraborty

Free energy profiles serve as a fundamental bridge between microscopic atomic fluctuations and macroscopic thermodynamic observables. Estimating the free energy profile along a reaction coordinate, referred to as the potential of mean force…

The error estimation capability of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on probabilistic learning methods such as Gaussian process regression (GPR) is currently under-exploited, because of the tendancy of the predicted…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-20 Albert P. Bartók , James. R. Kermode

Atomistic simulations of electrochemical interfaces remain challenging due to the long time scales required to adequately sample the structure of the electric double layer. The emergence of efficient, short-range machine learning…

Machine learning (ML) enables the development of interatomic potentials that promise the accuracy of first principles methods while retaining the low cost and parallel efficiency of empirical potentials. While ML potentials traditionally…

Emerging machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer a promising solution for large-scale accurate material simulations, but stringent tests related to the description of vibrational dynamics in molecular crystals remain scarce.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-17 Burak Gurlek , Shubham Sharma , Paolo Lazzaroni , Angel Rubio , Mariana Rossi

Molecular dynamics (MD) employing machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) serve as an efficient, urgently needed complement to ab initio molecular dynamics (aiMD). By training these potentials on data generated from ab initio…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-19 Kisung Kang , Thomas A. R. Purcell , Christian Carbogno , Matthias Scheffler