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We investigate Machine-Learned Force Fields (MLFFs) trained on approximate Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Coupled Cluster (CC) level potential energy surfaces for the carbon diamond and lithium hydride solids. We assess the accuracy…

Recent advances in machine learning force fields (MLFFs) are revolutionizing molecular simulations by bridging the gap between quantum-mechanical (QM) accuracy and the computational efficiency of mechanistic potentials. However, the…

Abstract Machine learning models, trained on data from ab initio quantum simulations, are yielding molecular dynamics potentials with unprecedented accuracy. One limiting factor is the quantity of available training data, which can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Justin S. Smith , Nicholas Lubbers , Aidan P. Thompson , Kipton Barros

Looking back at seven decades of highly extensive application in the semiconductor industry, silicon and its native oxide SiO$_2$ are still at the heart of several technological developments. Recently, the fabrication of ultra-thin oxide…

Fast and accurate molecular force field (FF) parameterization is still an unsolved problem. Accurate FFs are not generally available for all molecules, like novel druglike molecules. While methods based on quantum mechanics (QM) exist to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Raimondas Galvelis , Stefan Doerr , Joao M. Damas , Matt J. Harvey , Gianni De Fabritiis

The feature vector mapping used to represent chemical systems is a key factor governing the superior data-efficiency of kernel based quantum machine learning (QML) models applicable throughout chemical compound space. Unfortunately, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Danish Khan , Stefan Heinen , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

We present a perspective on molecular machine learning (ML) in the field of chemical process engineering. Recently, molecular ML has demonstrated great potential in (i) providing highly accurate predictions for properties of pure components…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Jan G. Rittig , Manuel Dahmen , Martin Grohe , Philippe Schwaller , Alexander Mitsos

Machine-learned force fields (MLFFs), especially pre-trained foundation models, are transforming computational materials science by enabling ab initio-level accuracy at molecular dynamics scales. Yet their rapid rise raises a key question:…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yi Cao , Paulette Clancy

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) trained on accurate quantum chemical data can retain the high accuracy, while inflicting little computational demands. On the downside, they need to be trained for each individual system. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Marco Eckhoff , Markus Reiher

In this article, we present a systematic study in developing machine learning force fields (MLFF) for crystalline silicon. While the main-stream approach of fitting a MLFF is to use a small and localized training sets from molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Howard Yanxon , David Zagaceta , Brandon C. Wood , Qiang Zhu

Machine learning techniques have found their way into computational chemistry as indispensable tools to accelerate atomistic simulations and materials design. In addition, machine learning approaches hold the potential to boost the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Johannes Voss

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations will be able to reach sampling in the second timescale within five years, producing petabytes of simulation data at current force field accuracy. Notwithstanding this, MD will still be in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-24 Adrià Pérez , Gerard Martínez-Rosell , Gianni De Fabritiis

We investigate the impact of choosing regressors and molecular representations for the construction of fast machine learning (ML) models of thirteen electronic ground-state properties of organic molecules. The performance of each…

Accurate molecular force fields are of paramount importance for the efficient implementation of molecular dynamics techniques at large scales. In the last decade, machine learning methods have demonstrated impressive performances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Oriel Kiss , Francesco Tacchino , Sofia Vallecorsa , Ivano Tavernelli

Machine-learned (ML) coarse-grained (CG) models are a promising tool for significantly enhancing the efficiency of molecular simulations by systematically removing degrees of freedom while retaining fidelity to the underlying fine-grained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Patrick G. Sahrmann , Benjamin T. Nebgen , Kipton Barros , Brenden W. Hamilton

Machine learning advances chemistry and materials science by enabling large-scale exploration of chemical space based on quantum chemical calculations. While these models supply fast and accurate predictions of atomistic chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 K. T. Schütt , M. Gastegger , A. Tkatchenko , K. -R. Müller , R. J. Maurer

Recently, machine learning (ML) has been used to address the computational cost that has been limiting ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). Here, we present GNNFF, a graph neural network framework to directly predict atomic forces from…

Rational design of compounds with specific properties requires conceptual understanding and fast evaluation of molecular properties throughout chemical compound space (CCS) -- the huge set of all potentially stable molecules. Recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Machine-learning (ML) techniques have revolutionized a host of research fields of chemical and materials science with accelerated, high-efficiency discoveries in design, synthesis, manufacturing, characterization and application of novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-31 Zhexu Xi

Fundamental understanding of interatomic forces in molecules must emerge from quantum mechanics, yet widely used empirical force fields rely on simplified mechanistic approximations that often fail to capture the complexity of many-body…