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In this study, a machine learning-based technique is developed to reduce the computational cost required to explore large design spaces of substitutional alloys. The first advancement is based on a neural network approach to predict the…

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Identifying transition states (TSs), the high-energy configurations that molecules pass through during chemical reactions, is essential for understanding and designing chemical processes. However, accurately and efficiently identifying…

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Machine learning (ML) problems are often posed as highly nonlinear and nonconvex unconstrained optimization problems. Methods for solving ML problems based on stochastic gradient descent are easily scaled for very large problems but may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Jennifer B. Erway , Joshua Griffin , Roummel F. Marcia , Riadh Omheni

A game theory inspired methodology is proposed for finding a function's saddle points. While explicit descent methods are known to have severe convergence issues, implicit methods are natural in an adversarial setting, as they take the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Montacer Essid , Esteban Tabak , Giulio Trigila

First-order optimization methods, such as SGD and Adam, are widely used for training large-scale deep neural networks due to their computational efficiency and robust performance. However, relying solely on gradient information, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yue Hu , Zanxia Cao , Yingchao Liu

Improving the predictive capability of molecular properties in ab initio simulations is essential for advanced material discovery. Despite recent progress making use of machine learning, utilizing deep neural networks to improve quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Muhammad F. Kasim , Sam M. Vinko

The task of locating first order saddle points on high-dimensional surfaces describing the variation of energy as a function of atomic coordinates is an essential step for identifying the mechanism and estimating the rate of thermally…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Rohit Goswami , Maxim Masterov , Satish Kamath , Alejandro Peña-Torres , Hannes Jónsson

We have generated an open-source dataset of over 30000 organic chemistry gas phase partition functions. With this data, a machine learning deep neural network estimator was trained to predict partition functions of unknown organic chemistry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Evan Komp , Stéphanie Valleau

We propose a derivative-free saddle-search algorithm designed to locate transition states using only function evaluations. The algorithm employs a nested architecture consisting of an inner eigenvector search and an outer saddle-point…

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Deep Learning (DL) has advanced various fields by extracting complex patterns from large datasets. However, the computational demands of DL models pose environmental and resource challenges. Deep shift neural networks (DSNNs) offer a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Leona Hennig , Tanja Tornede , Marius Lindauer

The saddle point (SP) calculation is a grand challenge for computationally intensive energy function in computational chemistry area, where the saddle point may represent the transition state (TS). The traditional methods need to evaluate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-08 Shuting Gu , Hongqiao Wang , Xiang Zhou

The adsorption energy serves as a crucial descriptor for the large-scale screening of catalysts. Nevertheless, the limited distribution of training data for the extensively utilised machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Songze Huo , Xiao-Ming Cao

The deep learning technique has been applied for the first time to investigate the possibility of centrality determination in terms of the number of participants ($N_{\mathrm{part}}$) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. For this purpose,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Dipankar Basak , Kalyan Dey

Transition state (TS) characterization is central to computational reaction modeling, yet conventional approaches depend on expensive density functional theory (DFT) calculations, limiting their scalability. Machine learning interatomic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Taoyong Cui , Yunhong Han , Haojun Jia , Chenru Duan , Qiyuan Zhao

Newton's method leverages curvature information to boost performance, and thus outperforms first-order methods for distributed learning problems. However, Newton's method is not practical in large-scale and heterogeneous learning…

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Hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions are essential in many biological processes, such as radical migration in damaged proteins, but their mechanistic pathways remain incompletely understood. Simulating HAT is challenging due to the need…

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Meta-learning is a promising method to achieve efficient training method towards deep neural net and has been attracting increases interests in recent years. But most of the current methods are still not capable to train complex neuron net…

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We consider the problem of risk-sensitive control in a reinforcement learning (RL) framework. In particular, we aim to find a risk-optimal policy by maximizing the distortion riskmetric (DRM) of the discounted reward in a finite horizon…

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This study address the computational determination of catalytic reaction rates by moving beyond traditional Transition State Theory (TST), addressing its limitations in complex systems. The Hill relation framework, integrated with Adaptive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Thomas Pigeon , Manuel Corral Valero , Pascal Raybaud

Ab initio simulations are capable of providing detailed information of material behavior at the nanoscale. Simulating experimentally relevant situations is, however, often computationally intense. Using hybrid approaches between ab initio…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Michael Sluydts , Michiel Larmuseau , Johan Lauwaert , Stefaan Cottenier