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While density functional theory (DFT) serves as a prevalent computational approach in electronic structure calculations, its computational demands and scalability limitations persist. Recently, leveraging neural networks to parameterize the…

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The sustainable production of many bulk chemicals relies on heterogeneous catalysis. The rational design or improvement of the required catalysts critically depends on insights into the underlying mechanisms at the atomic scale. In recent…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer near-ab initio accuracy with the efficiency of classical force fields, making them attractive for modeling electrolytes. Collecting a diverse training set is essential for their accuracy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Olga Chalykh , Mikhail Polovinkin , Dmitry Korogod , Nikita Rybin , Alexander Shapeev

As with many parts of the natural sciences, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing the modeling of molecular crystals. However, challenges remain for the accurate and efficient calculation of sublimation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Flaviano Della Pia , Benjamin X. Shi , Venkat Kapil , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

We show that the Gaussian Approximation Potential machine learning framework can describe complex magnetic potential energy surfaces, taking ferromagnetic iron as a paradigmatic challenging case. The training database includes total…

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High-entropy alloys are solid solutions of multiple principal elements, capable of reaching composition and feature regimes inaccessible for dilute materials. Discovering those with valuable properties, however, relies on serendipity, as…

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful approach in materials discovery. Its major challenge is selecting features that create interpretable representations of materials, useful across multiple prediction tasks. We introduce an…

The integration of machine learning techniques in materials discovery has become prominent in materials science research and has been accompanied by an increasing trend towards open-source data and tools to propel the field. Despite the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Daniel Persaud , Logan Ward , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) require vast amounts of atomic structure data to learn forces and energies, and their performance continues to improve with training set size. Meanwhile, the even greater quantities of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Manasa Kaniselvan , Benjamin Kurt Miller , Meng Gao , Juno Nam , Daniel S. Levine

In recent years, many types of machine learning potentials (MLPs) have been introduced, which are able to represent high-dimensional potential-energy surfaces (PES) with close to first-principles accuracy. Most current MLPs rely on atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Marius Herbold , Jörg Behler

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) methods have led to substantial improvement in materials property prediction against community benchmarks, but an excellent benchmark score may not imply good generalization of performance. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Kangming Li , Brian DeCost , Kamal Choudhary , Michael Greenwood , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) are reshaping atomistic simulation as foundation models, delivering near \textit{ab initio} accuracy at a fraction of the cost. Yet the lack of reliable, general uncertainty…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Kai Liu , Zixiong Wei , Wei Gao , Poulumi Dey , Marcel H. F. Sluiter , Fei Shuang

Universal machine learning interatomic potentials have emerged as efficient tools for materials simulation, yet their reliability for elastic property prediction remains unclear. Here, we present a systematic benchmark of four uMLIPs --…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Pengfei Gao , Haidi Wang

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) achieve near ab initio accuracy at a fraction of the cost of quantum-mechanical simulations, yet they remain prone to silent failures on out-of-distribution configurations, making principled…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Olga Zaghen , Maksim Zhdanov , Dario Coscia , David R. Wessels , Erik J. Bekkers

Corrosion has a wide impact on society, causing catastrophic damage to structurally engineered components. An emerging class of corrosion-resistant materials are high-entropy alloys. However, high-entropy alloys live in high-dimensional…

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Uranium mononitride (UN) is a promising accident-tolerant fuel because of its high fissile density and high thermal conductivity. In this study, we developed the first machine learning interatomic potentials for reliable atomic-scale…

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted increasing attention due to their unique structural and functional properties. In the study of HEAs, thermodynamic properties and phase stability play a crucial role, making phase diagram…

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Accurately modeling the structural reconstruction and thermodynamic behavior of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures remains a significant challenge due to the limitations of conventional force fields in capturing their complex mechanical,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Hekai Bu , Wenwu Jiang , Penghua Ying , Ting Liang , Zheyong Fan , Wengen Ouyang

Polynomial machine learning potentials (MLPs) based on polynomial rotational invariants have been systematically developed for various systems and applied to efficiently predict crystal structures. In this study, we propose a robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Hayato Wakai , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

The rapid development and large body of literature on machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) can make it difficult to know how to proceed for researchers who are not experts but wish to use these tools. The spirit of this review is…