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Deep learning-based generative models have emerged as powerful tools for modeling complex data distributions and generating high-fidelity samples, offering a transformative approach to efficiently explore the configuration space of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-12 Xiaoshan Luo , Zhenyu Wang , Qingchang Wang , Jian Lv , Lei Wang , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Realizing general inverse design could greatly accelerate the discovery of new materials with user-defined properties. However, state-of-the-art generative models tend to be limited to a specific composition or crystal structure. Herein, we…

In addition to the forward inference of materials properties using machine learning, generative deep learning techniques applied on materials science allow the inverse design of materials, i.e., assessing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Teng Long , Yixuan Zhang , Hongbin Zhang

In this study, we develop a conditional diffusion model that proposes the optimal process parameters and predicts the microstructure for the desired mechanical properties. In materials development, it is costly to try many samples with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Arisa Ikeda , Ryo Higuchi , Tomohiro Yokozeki , Katsuhiro Endo , Yuta Kojima , Misato Suzuki , Mayu Muramatsu

Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ziyuan Xie , Weipeng Xu , Dazhi Zhao , Wenchang Zhang , Daoyang Dong , Bingbing Xu , Ning Liu , Sheng Mao , Tianju Xue

Generative inverse design requires incorporating physical constraints to ensure that generated designs are both reliable and accurate. However, we observe that current state-of-the-art energy-based methods suffer from an asynchronous…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Aobo Yang , Zhen Wei , Rhea Liem , Pascal Fua

Bridging generative foundation models with non-equilibrium thin-film synthesis remains a central challenge, limiting the practical impact of AI-driven materials discovery on semiconductor dielectrics. Here, we introduce IDEAL (Inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-11 Bonwook Gu , Trinh Ngoc Le , Wonjoong Kim , Zunair Masroor , Han-Bo-Ram Lee

Inverse design problems are common in engineering and materials science. The forward direction, i.e., computing output quantities from design parameters, typically requires running a numerical simulation, such as a FEM, as an intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jens U. Kreber , Christian Weißenfels , Joerg Stueckler

For a very long time, computational approaches to the design of new materials have relied on an iterative process of finding a candidate material and modeling its properties. AI has played a crucial role in this regard, helping to…

Efficient exploration of the vast chemical space is a fundamental challenge in materials design and discovery, particularly for designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with targeted properties. Diffusion-based generative models…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Sourav Mal , Nehad Ahmed , Junaid Jami , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

The discovery of new materials has been the essential force which brings a discontinuous improvement to industrial products' performance. However, the extra-vast combinatorial design space of material structures exceeds human experts'…

Materials discovery is decisive for tackling urgent challenges related to energy, the environment, health care and many others. In chemistry, conventional methodologies for innovation usually rely on expensive and incremental strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Daniel Schwalbe-Koda , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

A major obstacle to the realization of novel inorganic materials with desirable properties is the inability to perform efficient optimization across both materials properties and synthesis of those materials. In this work, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-24 Elton Pan , Christopher Karpovich , Elsa Olivetti

Harnessing the rich nonlinear dynamics of highly-deformable materials has the potential to unlock the next generation of functional smart materials and devices. However, unlocking such potential requires effective strategies to spatially…

Inverse design of metasurfaces for specific electromagnetic responses requires generating geometries that satisfy stringent spectral constraints while maintaining manufacturability. Conventional design methodologies rely on iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Vineetha Joy , Jamshed Palai , Satwik Sahoo , Anshuman Kumar , Amit Sethi , Hema Singh

Efficient algorithms to generate candidate crystal structures with good stability properties can play a key role in data-driven materials discovery. Here we show that a crystal diffusion variational autoencoder (CDVAE) is capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-18 Peder Lyngby , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Understanding structure-property relationships in materials is fundamental in condensed matter physics and materials science. Over the past few years, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool for advancing this understanding and…

Active learning (AL) plays a critical role in materials science, enabling applications such as the construction of machine-learning interatomic potentials for atomistic simulations and the operation of self-driving laboratories. Despite its…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Akhil S. Nair , Lucas Foppa

In this work, we present Multimodal Equivariant Inverse Design Network (MEIDNet), a framework that jointly learns structural information and materials properties through contrastive learning, while encoding structures via an equivariant…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Anand Babu , Rogério Almeida Gouvêa , Pierre Vandergheynst , Gian-Marco Rignanese

Inverse design of inorganic crystals, in which structures are generated to satisfy a target property while preserving diversity and physical plausibility, remains more demanding than ab initio generation, as property conditioning can…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-05 Ibuki Okuda , Izumi Takahara , Teruyasu Mizoguchi