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Developing machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for complex materials systems remains challenging because it requires expertise in atomistic simulations, machine learning, and workflow design, as well as iterative active learning…

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Long-range electrostatics and polarization remain central obstacles to extending machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) to ionic, polar, and interfacial systems. Here, we introduce a semi-local framework for learning electrostatics…

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The development of resilient and lightweight Aluminum alloys is central to advancing structural materials for energy-efficient engineering applications. To address this challenge, in this study, we explore the elastic properties of Al-Mg-Zr…

While machine learning (ML) interatomic potentials (IPs) are able to achieve accuracies nearing the level of noise inherent in the first-principles data to which they are trained, it remains to be shown if their increased complexities are…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-05 Joshua A. Vita , Dallas R. Trinkle

Machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are becoming a standard method for DFT-level accurate molecular dynamics simulation and large-scale studies of crystal energetics. Increasingly popular are universal pre-trained potentials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Abhijith S Parackal , Rickard Armiento , Florian Trybel

Combining the efficiency of semi-empirical potentials with the accuracy of quantum mechanical methods, machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have significantly advanced atomistic modeling in computational materials science and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Jiantao Wang , Peitao Liu , Heyu Zhu , Mingfeng Liu , Hui Ma , Yun Chen , Yan Sun , Xing-Qiu Chen

In the past two decades, machine learning potentials (MLP) have reached a level of maturity that now enables applications to large-scale atomistic simulations of a wide range of systems in chemistry, physics and materials science. Different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Emir Kocer , Tsz Wai Ko , Jörg Behler

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable large-scale atomistic simulations but remain challenged in describing mixed-valence materials where charge ordering strongly influences thermodynamic stability. Here we investigate the…

Accurate structural relaxation is critical for advanced materials design. Traditional approaches built on physics-derived first-principles calculations are computationally expensive, motivating the creation of machine-learning interatomic…

To fill the gap between accurate (and expensive) ab initio calculations and efficient atomistic simulations based on empirical interatomic potentials, a new class of descriptions of atomic interactions has emerged and been widely applied;…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-28 Tongqi Wen , Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E , David J. Srolovitz

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are inherently limited by the accuracy of the training data, usually consisting of energies and forces obtained from quantum mechanical calculations, such as density functional theory (DFT).…

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have advanced rapidly, with many top models relying on strong physics-based inductive biases. However, as models scale to larger systems like biomolecules and electrolytes, they struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Eric Qu , Brandon M. Wood , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Zachary W. Ulissi

Explicit incorporation of magnetic degrees of freedom in machine-learning interatomic potentials (magnetic MLIPs) plays a crucial role in the correct description of magnetic materials and their properties. An important ingredient for…

Accurate yet transferable machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are essential for accelerating materials and chemical discovery. However, most universal MLIPs overfit to narrow datasets or computational protocols, limiting their…

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 (MLIPs) have achieved remarkable accuracy on standard benchmarks, yet their ability to reproduce molecular kinetics -- critical for reaction rate calculations -- remains largely unexplored. We…

Universal machine learned interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) embody a growing area of interest due to their transferability across the periodic table, displaying an error of about 0.6 kcal/mol against the Matbench Discovery test set. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Nicolas Wong , Julia H. Yang

Large-scale atomistic simulations are essential to bridge computational materials and chemistry to realistic materials and drug discovery applications. In the past few years, rapid developments of machine learning interatomic potentials…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kevin Han , Bowen Deng , Amir Barati Farimani , Gerbrand Ceder

Methodologies for training machine learning potentials (MLPs) to quantum-mechanical simulation data have recently seen tremendous progress. Experimental data has a very different character than simulated data, and most MLP training…

The acceleration of material property calculations while maintaining ab initio accuracy (1 meV/atom) is one of the major challenges in computational physics. In this paper, we introduce a Python package enhancing the computation of (finite…