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Machine-learning-based interatomic potentials enable accurate materials simulations on extended time- and lengthscales. ML potentials based on the Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE) framework have recently shown promising performance for this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Daniel F. Thomas du Toit , Yuxing Zhou , Volker L. Deringer

Recent advances in deep learning generative models (GMs) have created high capabilities in accessing and assessing complex high-dimensional data, allowing superior efficiency in navigating vast material configuration space in search of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-13 Xiaoshan Luo , Zhenyu Wang , Pengyue Gao , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Changfeng Chen , Yanming Ma

In all but the most trivial optimization problems, the structure of the solutions exhibit complex interdependencies between the input parameters. Decades of research with stochastic search techniques has shown the benefit of explicitly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Shumeet Baluja

Most machine learning (ML) models in Materials Science are developed by global geometric features, often falling short in describing localized characteristics, like molecular adsorption on materials. In this study, we introduce a local…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-21 Yifan Li , Yihan Wu , Yuhang Han , Qujie Lyu , Hao Wu , Xiuying Zhang , Lei Shen

Geometric representation-conditioned molecule generation provides an effective paradigm that decouples molecule representation modeling from structure generation. By decoupling molecule generation into two stages-first generating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shaoheng Yan , Zian Li , Cai Zhou , Qiaojing Huang , Kai Liu , Muhan Zhang

It is common practice for chemists to search chemical databases based on substructures of compounds for finding molecules with desired properties. The purpose of de novo molecular generation is to generate instead of search. Existing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Ryuichiro Hataya , Hideki Nakayama , Kazuki Yoshizoe

Efficient solving of an unseen optimization problem is related to appropriate selection of an optimization algorithm and its hyper-parameters. For this purpose, automated algorithm performance prediction should be performed that in most…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Risto Trajanov , Stefan Dimeski , Martin Popovski , Peter Korošec , Tome Eftimov

We give evidence that particles interacting via the simple, radially symmetric square-shoulder potential can self-organize in highly complex, low-symmetry lattices, forming thereby clusters, columns, or lamellae; only at high pressure…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-29 Gernot J. Pauschenwein , Gerhard Kahl

We created a computational workflow to analyze the potential energy surface (PES) of materials using machine-learned interatomic potentials in conjunction with the minima hopping algorithm. We demonstrate this method by producing a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Hossein Tahmasbi , Kushal Ramakrishna , Mani Lokamani , Attila Cangi

We explore the structural signatures of excitations in amorphous materials with the atomic cluster expansion (ACE), a universal and complete linear basis of descriptors of the atomic environment. Body-orderd linear classifiers are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-07 Joerg Rottler , Christoph Ortner

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new frontiers in automated algorithm design, giving rise to numerous powerful methods. However, these approaches retain critical limitations: they require extensive evaluation of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Haoran Yin , Shuaiqun Pan , Zhao Wei , Jian Cheng Wong , Yew-Soon Ong , Anna V. Kononova , Thomas Bäck , Niki van Stein

We present a genetic algorithm developed (GA) to optimize molecular AF_6 cluster configurations with respect to their energy. The method is based on the Darvin's evolutionary theory: structures with lowest energies survive in a system of…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2007-05-23 Stoyan Pisov , A. Proykova

We present a new sink particle algorithm developed for the Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES. Our main addition is the use of a clump finder to identify density peaks and their associated regions (the peak patches). This allows us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andreas Bleuler , Romain Teyssier

In Artificial Intelligence with Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) one refers to those cooperative complex problems that require to find an optimal partition, maximising a social welfare, of a set of entities involved in a system into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-03-10 Nicola Di Mauro , Teresa M. A. Basile , Stefano Ferilli , Floriana Esposito

Finding the ground state of Ising spin glasses is notoriously difficult due to disorder and frustration. Often, this challenge is framed as a combinatorial optimization problem, for which a common strategy employs simulated annealing, a…

The global optimization of atomic clusters represents a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry and materials science due to the exponential growth of local minima with system size (i.e., the curse of dimensionality). We introduce…

We briefly summarize the kernel regression approach, as used recently in materials modelling, to fitting functions, particularly potential energy surfaces, and highlight how the linear algebra framework can be used to both predict and train…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Michele Ceriotti , Michael J. Willatt , Gábor Csányi

Molecule synthesis through machine learning is one of the fundamental problems in drug discovery. Current data-driven strategies employ one-step retrosynthesis models and search algorithms to predict synthetic routes in a top-bottom manner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Songtao Liu , Hanjun Dai , Yue Zhao , Peng Liu

Module for ab initio structure evolution (MAISE) is an open-source package for materials modeling and prediction. The code's main feature is an automated generation of neural network (NN) interatomic potentials for use in global structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Samad Hajinazar , Aidan Thorn , Ernesto D. Sandoval , Saba Kharabadze , Aleksey N. Kolmogorov

Landscapes are meaningful ecological units that strongly depend on the environmental conditions. Such dependencies between landscapes and the environment have been noted since the beginning of Earth sciences and cast into conceptual models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Christian Requena-Mesa , Markus Reichstein , Miguel Mahecha , Basil Kraft , Joachim Denzler