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Successful materials innovations can transform society. However, materials research often involves long timelines and low success probabilities, dissuading investors who have expectations of shorter times from bench to business. A…

We propose an efficient computational methodology for predicting the synthesizability of high entropy oxides (HEOs) in a large space of possible candidate compounds. HEOs are a growing field with an enormous potential chemical composition…

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The de novo design of molecular structures using deep learning generative models introduces an encouraging solution to drug discovery in the face of the continuously increased cost of new drug development. From the generation of original…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-08 Yuemin Bian , Xiang-Qun Xie

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) based on a large dataset obtained by density functional theory (DFT) calculation have been developed recently. This study gives both conceptual and practical bases for the high accuracy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Akira Takahashi , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

The sustainable production of many bulk chemicals relies on heterogeneous catalysis. The rational design or improvement of the required catalysts critically depends on insights into the underlying mechanisms at the atomic scale. In recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Amir Omranpour , Jan Elsner , K. Nikolas Lausch , Jörg Behler

Accurate prediction of materials phase diagrams from first principles remains a central challenge in computational materials science. Machine-learning interatomic potentials can provide near-DFT accuracy at a fraction of the cost, but their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-23 Nico Unglert , Michael Ketter , Georg K. H. Madsen

In molecular dynamics (MD), neural network (NN) potentials trained bottom-up on quantum mechanical data have seen tremendous success recently. Top-down approaches that learn NN potentials directly from experimental data have received less…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Stephan Thaler , Julija Zavadlav

Reinforcement Learning (RL) models have continually evolved to navigate the exploration - exploitation trade-off in uncertain Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). In this study, I leverage the principles of stochastic thermodynamics and system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Peeyush Kumar

The emergence of deep learning has brought the long-standing goal of comprehensively understanding and exploring crystalline materials closer to reality. Yet, universal exploration across all elements remains hindered by the combinatorial…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-18 Fengyu Xie , Ruoyu Wang , Taoyuze Lv , Yuxiang Gao , Hongyu Wu , Zhicheng Zhong

Traditional materials discovery approaches - relying primarily on laborious experiments - have controlled the pace of technology. Instead, computational approaches offer an accelerated path: high-throughput exploration and characterization…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-23 Corey Oses

With the achievement on the additive manufacturing, the mechanical properties of architectured materials can be precisely designed by tailoring microstructures. As one of the primary design objectives, the elastic isotropy is of great…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Anran Wei , Jie Xiong , Weidong Yang , Fenglin Guo

This work proposes a learning method to accelerate robotic pick-and-place planning by predicting shared grasps. Shared grasps are defined as grasp poses feasible to both the initial and goal object configurations in a pick-and-place task.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liang Qin , Weiwei Wan , Jun Takahashi , Ryo Negishi , Masaki Matsushita , Kensuke Harada

Planning contact-rich interactions for multi-finger manipulation is challenging due to the high-dimensionality and hybrid nature of dynamics. Recent advances in data-driven methods have shown promise, but are sensitive to the quality of…

Polynomial machine learning potentials (MLPs) based on polynomial rotational invariants have been systematically developed for various systems and applied to efficiently predict crystal structures. In this study, we propose a robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Hayato Wakai , Atsuto Seko , Isao Tanaka

Fast and accurate prediction of optimal crystal structure, topology, and microstructures is important for accelerating the design and discovery of new materials. A challenge lies in the exorbitantly large structural and compositional space…

The expansion of programmatically-accessible materials data has cultivated opportunities for data-driven approaches. Highly-automated frameworks like AFLOW not only manage the generation, storage, and dissemination of materials data, but…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-17 Corey Oses , Cormac Toher , Stefano Curtarolo

The geometric design of structures with optimized physical and chemical properties is one of the core topics in materials science. However, designing new functional materials is challenging due to the vast number of existing and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Congcong Cui , Guangfeng Wei , Matthias Saba , Yuanyuan Cao , Lu Han

Generative modeling of non-negative, discrete data, such as symbolic music, remains challenging due to two persistent limitations in existing methods. Firstly, many approaches rely on modeling continuous embeddings, which is suboptimal for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sagnik Bhattacharya , Abhiram Gorle , Ahsan Bilal , Connor Ding , Amit Kumar Singh Yadav , Tsachy Weissman

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have transformed materials discovery by leveraging graph neural networks (GNNs) to predict material properties with near density functional theory (DFT) accuracy. While large-scale pretrained…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Rushikesh Pawar , Harshit Rawat , Ayush Kumar , Phani Motamarri

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi