English
Related papers

Related papers: Space Group Informed Transformer for Crystalline M…

200 papers

Crystalline materials, with symmetrical and periodic structures, exhibit a wide spectrum of properties and have been widely used in numerous applications across electronics, energy, and beyond. For crystalline materials discovery,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhenzhong Wang , Haowei Hua , Wanyu Lin , Ming Yang , Kay Chen Tan

Efficient exploration of the vast chemical space is a fundamental challenge in materials design and discovery, particularly for designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with targeted properties. Diffusion-based generative models…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Sourav Mal , Nehad Ahmed , Junaid Jami , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

In crystallography, a structure is typically represented by the arrangement of atoms in the direct space. Furthermore, space group symmetry and Wyckoff site notations are applied to characterize crystal structures with only a few variables.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Osman Goni Ridwan , Hongfei Xue , Youxing Chen , Harish Cherukuri , Qiang Zhu

As in many other fields, the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is reshaping materials discovery by offering new ways to propose crystal structures and, in some cases, even predict desired properties. This review provides a…

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

Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Materials play a critical role in various technological applications. Identifying and enumerating stable compounds, those near the convex hull, is therefore essential. Despite recent progress, generative models either have a relatively low…

Discovering new solid-state materials requires rapidly exploring the vast space of crystal structures and locating stable regions. Generating stable materials with desired properties and compositions is extremely difficult as we search for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Tri Minh Nguyen , Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik , Truyen Tran , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

Realizing general inverse design could greatly accelerate the discovery of new materials with user-defined properties. However, state-of-the-art generative models tend to be limited to a specific composition or crystal structure. Herein, we…

Drawing inspiration from the achievements of natural language processing, we adopt self-supervised learning and utilize an equivariant graph neural network to develop a unified platform designed for training generative models capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Fangze Liu , Zhantao Chen , Tianyi Liu , Ruyi Song , Yu Lin , Joshua J. Turner , Chunjing Jia

Crystal structure forms the foundation for understanding the physical and chemical properties of materials. Generative models have emerged as a new paradigm in crystal structure prediction(CSP), however, accurately capturing key…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Ziyi Chen , Yang Yuan , Siming Zheng , Jialong Guo , Sihan Liang , Yangang Wang , Zongguo Wang

Crystallization of the amorphous phases into metastable crystals plays a fundamental role in the formation of new matter, from geological to biological processes in nature to synthesis and development of new materials in the laboratory.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-03 Muratahan Aykol , Amil Merchant , Simon Batzner , Jennifer N. Wei , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Recent developments of imaging techniques enable researchers to visualize materials at the atomic resolution to better understand the microscopic structures of materials. This paper aims at automatic and quantitative characterization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-11 Jianfeng Lu , Haizhao Yang

Group activity recognition is a crucial yet challenging problem, whose core lies in fully exploring spatial-temporal interactions among individuals and generating reasonable group representations. However, previous methods either model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shuaicheng Li , Qianggang Cao , Lingbo Liu , Kunlin Yang , Shinan Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi

Organic molecular crystals underpin technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to organic electronics, yet predicting solid-state packing of molecules remains challenging because candidate generation is combinatorial and stability is only…

Crystal structure generation is a foundational challenge in materials discovery, particularly in designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with desired properties. Most existing diffusion-based generative models for crystals rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Sourav Mal , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

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…

Generative models show great promise for the inverse design of molecules and inorganic crystals, but remain largely ineffective within more complex structures such as amorphous materials. Here, we present a diffusion model that reliably…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-21 Kai Yang , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

In computational molecular and materials science, determining equilibrium structures is the crucial first step for accurate subsequent property calculations. However, the recent discovery of millions of new crystals and complex twisted…

Atomic-level modeling performed at large scales enables the investigation of mesoscale materials properties with atom-by-atom resolution. The spatial complexity of such cross-scale simulations renders them unsuitable for simple human visual…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Heejung Chung , Rodrigo Freitas , Gowoon Cheon , Evan J. Reed