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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable the accurate simulation of materials at larger sizes and time scales, and play increasingly important roles in the computational understanding and design of materials. However, MLIPs…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Ji Qi , Tsz Wai Ko , Brandon C. Wood , Tuan Anh Pham , Shyue Ping Ong

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) developed from extensive datasets constructed from density functional theory (DFT) calculations have become increasingly appealing for many researchers. This paper presents a framework of polynomial-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-29 Atsuto Seko

Large density functional theory (DFT) databases are a treasure trove of energies, forces and stresses that can be used to train machine learned interatomic potentials for atomistic modeling. Herein, we employ structural relaxations from the…

Data based materials science is the new promise to accelerate materials design. Especially in computational materials science, data generation can easily be automatized. Usually, the focus is on processing and evaluating the data to derive…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-28 Martin Kroll , Timo Schmalofski , Holger Dette , Rebecca Janisch

This letter presents a novel approach for identifying uncorrelated atomic configurations from extensive data sets with a non-standard neural network workflow known as random network distillation (RND) for training machine-learned…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Jan Finkbeiner , Samuel Tovey , Christian Holm

Knowing the rate at which particle radiation releases energy in a material, the stopping power, is key to designing nuclear reactors, medical treatments, semiconductor and quantum materials, and many other technologies. While the nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-13 Logan Ward , Ben Blaiszik , Cheng-Wei Lee , Troy Martin , Ian Foster , André Schleife

Machine learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized complex materials design by enabling rapid exploration of material configurational spaces via crystal structure prediction with ab initio accuracy. However, critical challenges…

Computational materials science increasingly benefits from data management, automation, and algorithm-based decision-making for the simulation of material properties and behavior. Experimental materials science also changes rapidly by…

Scientific hypothesis generation is central to materials discovery, yet current approaches often emphasize either conceptual (idea-to-data) reasoning or data-driven (data-to-idea) analysis, rarely achieving an effective integration of both.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-24 Kangyu Ji , Tianran Liu , Fang Sheng , Shaun Tan , Moungi Bawendi , Tonio Buonassisi

The data drawn from biological, economic, and social systems are often confounded due to the presence of unmeasured variables. Prior work in causal discovery has focused on discrete search procedures for selecting acyclic directed mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Rohit Bhattacharya , Tushar Nagarajan , Daniel Malinsky , Ilya Shpitser

Given that observational and numerical climate data are being produced at ever more prodigious rates, increasingly sophisticated and automated analysis techniques have become essential. Deep learning is quickly becoming a standard approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-12 A. Rupe , J. P. Crutchfield , K. Kashinath , Prabhat

Data-driven methods, in particular machine learning, can help to speed up the discovery of new materials by finding hidden patterns in existing data and using them to identify promising candidate materials. In the case of superconductors,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-15 Timo Sommer , Roland Willa , Jörg Schmalian , Pascal Friederich

Twisted layered van-der-Waals materials often exhibit unique electronic and optical properties absent in their non-twisted counterparts. Unfortunately, predicting such properties is hindered by the difficulty in determining the atomic…

The length and time scales of atomistic simulations are limited by the computational cost of the methods used to predict material properties. In recent years there has been great progress in the use of machine learning algorithms to develop…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Alberto Hernandez , Adarsh Balasubramanian , Fenglin Yuan , Simon Mason , Tim Mueller

Discovering materials with new structural chemistry is key to achieving transformative functionality. Generative artificial intelligence offers a scalable route to propose candidate crystal structures. We introduce a reliable low-cost proxy…

Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…

This paper concerns structure learning or discovery of discrete generative models. It focuses on Bayesian model selection and the assimilation of training data or content, with a special emphasis on the order in which data are ingested. A…

Causal discovery is fundamental to scientific research, yet traditional statistical algorithms face significant challenges, including expensive data collection, redundant computation for known relations, and unrealistic assumptions. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tao Feng , Lizhen Qu , Niket Tandon , Gholamreza Haffari

The project aims to explore a novel way to design and produce cellular materials with good energy absorption and recoverability properties. Spinodoid structures offer an alternative to engineering structures such as honeycombs and foam with…

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled molecular dynamics at near ab initio accuracy, yet remain limited to energies and forces by construction, leaving electronic observables such as dipole moments and…