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Prevailing machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) uncertainty-quantification methods rely on ensembles of independently trained backbones. These methods scale unfavorably with foundation-scale MLIPs, and their member-disagreement…

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Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) can be used to train accurate machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs), enabling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of complex materials on time scales and for system sizes previously unattainable. VMC…

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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…

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We designed a procedure to train a machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) at benchmark-quality quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) accuracy. To avoid the complexities of high-quality atomic force determination with the stochastic QMC methods,…

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Foundation MLIPs demonstrate broad applicability across diverse material systems and have emerged as a powerful and transformative paradigm in chemical and computational materials science. Equivariant MLIPs achieve state-of-the-art accuracy…

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Machine-learning models of atomic-scale interactions achieve the accuracy of the quantum mechanical calculations on which they are trained, but at a dramatically lower computational cost. Their predictions can be made trustworthy by…

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Fast, and accurate prediction of ionic migration barriers ($E_m$) is crucial for designing next-generation battery materials that combine high energy density with facile ion transport. Given the computational costs associated with…

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Determining transition states (TSs) of surface reactions is central to understanding and designing heterogeneous catalysts but remains computationally prohibitive with density functional theory (DFT). While machine learning potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Raffaele Cheula , Mie Andersen , John R. Kitchin

We introduce a lightweight universal machine-learning interatomic potential (uMLIP), SevenNet-Nano, based on the graph neural network architecture SevenNet and enabled by a knowledge-distillation framework. The model inherits the broad…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Sangmin Oh , Jinmu You , Jaesun Kim , Jiho Lee , Hyungmin An , Seungwu Han , Youngho Kang

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

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled atomistic simulations with ab initio accuracy for a fraction of the computational cost. However, many widely used MLIPs are short-ranged and do not accurately capture long-ranged…

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLPs) are fast, data-driven surrogate models of atomistic systems' potential energy surfaces that can accelerate ab-initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations by several orders of magnitude. The…

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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) offer first-principles accuracy with reduced computational cost, but their transferability across different thermodynamic states remains questionable, particularly for fluid systems where…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Minwoo Kim , Seungtae Kim , Je-Yeon Jung , Min Young Ha , Won Bo Lee

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is critical for assessing the reliability of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, identifying extrapolation regimes and enabling uncertainty-aware workflows…

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Structural defects within amorphous packings of symmetric particles can be characterized using a machine learning approach that incorporates structure functions of radial distances and angular arrangement. This yields a scalar field,…

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Atomic vibrations play a critical role in phonon-assisted electron transitions at defects in solids. However, accurate phonon calculations in defect systems are often hindered by the high computational cost of large-supercell…

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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…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs), particularly graph neural network (GNN)-based models, offer a promising route to achieving near-density functional theory (DFT) accuracy at significantly reduced computational cost. However,…

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