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Our main motivation is to propose an efficient approach to generate novel multi-element stable chemical compounds that can be used in real world applications. This task can be formulated as a combinatorial problem, and it takes many hours…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Asma Nouira , Nataliya Sokolovska , Jean-Claude Crivello

Crystal structure determines properties of materials. With the crystal structure of a chemical substance, many physical and chemical properties can be predicted by first-principles calculations or machine learning models. Since it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Rongzhi Dong , Yuxin Li , Jianjun Hu

Although diffusion models have successfully extended to function-valued data, stochastic interpolants -- which offer a flexible way to bridge arbitrary distributions -- remain limited to finite-dimensional settings. This work bridges this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 James Boran Yu , RuiKang OuYang , Julien Horwood , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Generative models have become significant assets in the exploration and identification of new materials, enabling the rapid proposal of candidate crystal structures that satisfy target properties. Despite the increasing adoption of diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Charles Rhys Campbell , Aldo H. Romero , Kamal Choudhary

Material discovery is a critical research area with profound implications for various industries. In this work, we introduce MatExpert, a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) and contrastive learning to accelerate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-30 Qianggang Ding , Santiago Miret , Bang Liu

The rapid advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques is revolutionizing materials discovery, property prediction, and material design by minimizing human intervention and accelerating scientific…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Dilshod Nematov , Mirabbos Hojamberdiev

The discovery of new crystalline materials is essential to scientific and technological progress. However, traditional trial-and-error approaches are inefficient due to the vast search space. Recent advancements in machine learning have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Laura Ruple , Luca Torresi , Henrik Schopmans , Pascal Friederich

We study property prediction for crystal materials. A crystal structure consists of a minimal unit cell that is repeated infinitely in 3D space. How to accurately represent such repetitive structures in machine learning models remains…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Yuchao Lin , Keqiang Yan , Youzhi Luo , Yi Liu , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) -- the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based only on its molecular composition. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Andrew Wildman , Rodrigo Wang , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Liquid crystal polymers with exceptional optical properties are highly promising for next-generation virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies, serving as high-performance, compact, lightweight, and cost-effective…

We present a genetic algorithm (GA) for structural search that combines the speed of structure exploration by classical potentials with the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT) calculations in an adaptive and iterative way. This…

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Generating novel crystalline materials has the potential to lead to advancements in fields such as electronics, energy storage, and catalysis. The defining characteristic of crystals is their symmetry, which plays a central role in…

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials with broad applications such as carbon capture and drug delivery, yet accurately predicting their 3D structures remains a significant challenge. While Large Language Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mianzhi Pan , JianFei Li , Peishuo Liu , Botian Wang , Yawen Ouyang , Yiming Rong , Hao Zhou , Jianbing Zhang

Developing inverse design methods for functional materials with specific properties is critical to advancing fields like renewable energy, catalysis, energy storage, and carbon capture. Generative models based on diffusion principles can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Qi Han , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Hao Sun , Zhong-Yi Lu

Graph deep learning models, which incorporate a natural inductive bias for a collection of atoms, are of immense interest in materials science and chemistry. Here, we introduce the Materials Graph Library (MatGL), an open-source graph deep…

There is growing interest in engineering unconventional computing devices that leverage the intrinsic dynamics of physical substrates to perform fast and energy-efficient computations. Granular metamaterials are one such substrate that has…

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Data incompleteness severely impedes the reliability of multimodal systems. Existing reconstruction methods face distinct bottlenecks: conventional parametric/generative models are prone to hallucinations due to over-reliance on internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ruiting Dai , Zheyu Wang , Haoyu Yang , Yihan Liu , Chengzhi Wang , Zekun Zhang , Zishan Huang , Jiaman Cen , Lisi Mo

Generative models for materials have achieved strong performance on periodic bulk crystals, yet their ability to generalize across scale transitions to finite nanostructures remains largely untested. We introduce Crystal-to-Nanoparticle…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-28 Can Polat , Erchin Serpedin , Mustafa Kurban , Hasan Kurban

Magnetic materials are crucial components of many technologies that could drive the ecological transition, including electric motors, wind turbine generators and magnetic refrigeration systems. Discovering materials with large magnetic…

Generative models for materials, especially inorganic crystals, hold potential to transform the theoretical prediction of novel compounds and structures. Advancement in this field depends on robust benchmarks and minimal, information-rich…