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Fast and accurate crystal structure prediction (CSP) algorithms and web servers are highly desirable for exploring and discovering new materials out of the infinite design space. However, currently, the computationally expensive first…

Machine learning has revolutionized many fields, including materials science. However, predicting properties of crystalline materials using machine learning faces challenges in input encoding, output versatility, and interpretability. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-22 Haosheng Xu , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

We have developed an efficient and reliable methodology for crystal structure prediction, merging ab initio total-energy calculations and a specifically devised evolutionary algorithm. This method allows one to predict the most stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-18 A. R. Oganov , C. W. Glass

We show that unsupervised machine learning can be used to learn physical and chemical transformation pathways from the observational microscopic data, as demonstrated for atomically resolved images in Scanning Transmission Electron…

Crystal structures are characterized by atomic bases within a primitive unit cell that repeats along a regular lattice throughout 3D space. The periodic and infinite nature of crystals poses unique challenges for geometric graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Keqiang Yan , Cong Fu , Xiaofeng Qian , Xiaoning Qian , Shuiwang Ji

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) aims to discover solid crystalline materials by optimizing periodic arrangements of atoms, ions or molecules. CSP takes weeks of supercomputer time because of slow energy minimizations for millions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Jakob Ropers , Marco M Mosca , Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Andrew I Cooper

Physical properties and functionalities of materials are dictated by global crystal structures as well as local defects. To establish a structure-property relationship, not only the crystallographic symmetry but also quantitative knowledge…

High-pressure crystal structure prediction (CSP) underpins advances in condensed matter physics, planetary science, and materials discovery. Yet, most large atomistic models are trained on near-ambient, equilibrium data, leading to degraded…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Yinan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Jing Wu , Jian Lv , Han Wang

Crystal structure prediction remains a major challenge in materials science, directly impacting the discovery and development of next-generation materials. We introduce TCSP 2.0, a substantial evolution of our template-based crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 Lai Wei , Rongzhi Dong , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Jianjun Hu

We propose Tree Variational Autoencoder (TreeVAE), a new generative hierarchical clustering model that learns a flexible tree-based posterior distribution over latent variables. TreeVAE hierarchically divides samples according to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Laura Manduchi , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Julia Vogt

Even though thermodynamic energy-based crystal structure prediction (CSP) has revolutionized materials discovery, the energy-driven CSP approaches often struggle to identify experimentally realizable metastable materials synthesized through…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-15 Yu Xin , Peng Liu , Zhuohang Xie , Wenhui Mi , Pengyue Gao , Hong Jian Zhao , Jian Lv , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Structured variational autoencoders (SVAEs) combine probabilistic graphical model priors on latent variables, deep neural networks to link latent variables to observed data, and structure-exploiting algorithms for approximate posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-29 Yixiu Zhao , Scott W. Linderman

The chemical space of drug-like molecules is vast, motivating the development of generative models that must learn broad chemical distributions, enable conditional generation by capturing structure-property representations, and provide fast…

Property prediction accuracy has long been a key parameter of machine learning in materials informatics. Accordingly, advanced models showing state-of-the-art performance turn into highly parameterized black boxes missing interpretability.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-03 Vadim Korolev , Pavel Protsenko

Crystal structure predictions based on the combination of first-principles calculations and machine learning have achieved significant success in materials science. However, most of these approaches are limited to predicting specific…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Zongguo Wang , Ziyi Chen , Yang Yuan , Yangang Wang

Autonomous materials discovery with desired properties is one of the ultimate goals for materials science, and the current studies have been focusing mostly on high-throughput screening based on density functional theory calculations and…

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) has emerged as one of the most important approaches for discovering new materials. CSP algorithms based on evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization have discovered a great number of new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Wenhui Yang , Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane , Jianjun Hu

Variational autoencoders are powerful algorithms for identifying dominant latent structure in a single dataset. In many applications, however, we are interested in modeling latent structure and variation that are enriched in a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Abubakar Abid , James Zou

In computational chemistry, crystal structure prediction (CSP) is an optimization problem that involves discovering the lowest energy stable crystal structure for a given chemical formula. This problem is challenging as it requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Han Qi , Xinyang Geng , Stefano Rando , Iku Ohama , Aviral Kumar , Sergey Levine

A novel method for crystal structure prediction, based on metadynamics and evolutionary algorithms, is presented here. This technique can be used to produce efficiently both the ground state and metastable states easily reachable from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-08 Qiang Zhu , Artem R. Oganov , Andriy O. Lyakhov