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Machine-learning models in chemistry - when based on descriptors of atoms embedded within molecules - face essential challenges in transferring the quality of predictions of local electronic structures and their associated properties across…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Frederik Ø. Kjeldal , Janus J. Eriksen

Predicting structural and energetic properties of a molecular system is one of the fundamental tasks in molecular simulations, and it has use cases in chemistry, biology, and medicine. In the past decade, the advent of machine learning…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Sajjad Heydari , Stefano Raniolo , Lorenzo Livi , Vittorio Limongelli

Universal machine-learned interatomic potentials (U-MLIPs) have demonstrated effectiveness across diverse atomistic systems but often require fine-tuning for task-specific accuracy. We investigate the fine-tuning of two MACE-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Xiaoqing Liu , Kehan Zeng , Yangshuai Wang , Teng Zhao

Accurate modelling of electrostatic interactions and charge transfer is fundamental to computational chemistry, yet most machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) rely on local atomic descriptors that cannot capture long-range…

Over the past decade inter-atomic potentials based on machine-learning (ML) techniques have become an indispensable tool in the atomic-scale modeling of materials. Trained on energies and forces obtained from electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-15 Michele Ceriotti

Simulating water from first principles remains a significant computational challenge due to the slow dynamics of the underlying system. Although machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLPs) can accelerate these simulations, they often fail…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Tobias Hilpert , Georg Kresse

Machine-learning interatomic potentials have revolutionized materials modeling at the atomic scale. Thanks to these, it is now indeed possible to perform simulations of \abinitio quality over very large time and length scales. More…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-23 Haochen Yu , Matteo Giantomassi , Giuliana Materzanini , Junjie Wang , Gian-Marco Rignanese

The central approximation made in classical molecular dynamics simulation of materials is the interatomic potential used to calculate the forces on the atoms. Great effort and ingenuity is required to construct viable functional forms and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mitchell A. Wood , Mary Alice Cusentino , Brian D. Wirth , Aidan P. Thompson

Machine learning potentials have become an important tool for atomistic simulations in many fields, from chemistry via molecular biology to materials science. Most of the established methods, however, rely on local properties and are thus…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-17 Tsz Wai Ko , Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker , Jörg Behler

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

To address the computational challenges of ab initio molecular dynamics and the accuracy limitations of empirical force fields, the introduction of machine learning force fields has proven effective in various systems including metals and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-18 Junbao Hu , Liyang Zhou , Jian Jiang

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are changing atomistic simulations in the field of chemistry and materials science. However, constructing a single universal MLIP that can accurately model molecular and crystalline systems…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Tomoya Shiota , Kenji Ishihara , Tuan Minh Do , Toshio Mori , Wataru Mizukami

The predictive accuracy of Machine Learning (ML) models of molecular properties depends on the choice of the molecular representation. Based on the postulates of quantum mechanics, we introduce a hierarchy of representations which meet…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Bing Huang , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Machine-learned interatomic potentials hold the promise to enable the modeling of highly concentrated liquids over meaningful timescales, far from reach for current ab initio electronic structure methods. Here we evaluate the performances…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Brugnoli , Mathieu Salanne , A. Marco Saitta , Alessandra Serva , Arthur France-Lanord

Accurate prediction of surface energies and stabilities is essential for materials design, yet first-principles calculations remain computationally expensive and most existing interatomic potentials are trained only on bulk systems. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-01 Jaekyun Hwang , Taehun Lee , Yonghyuk Lee , Su-Hyun Yoo

Electrolyte solutions play critical role in a vast range of important applications, yet an accurate and scalable method of predicting their properties without fitting to experiment has remained out of reach, despite over a century of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Junji Zhang , Joshua Pagotto , Tim Gould , Timothy T. Duignan

The past few years have seen the development of ``universal'' machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) capable of approximating the ground-state potential energy surface across a wide range of chemical structures and compositions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Sofiia Chorna , Davide Tisi , Cesare Malosso , Wei Bin How , Michele Ceriotti , Sanggyu Chong

The rapid development of pretrained Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) that cover a wide range of molecular species has made it challenging to select the best model for a given application. We benchmark 15 pretrained MLIPs,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Peter Eastman , Evan Pretti , Thomas E. Markland

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) are widely applied as an efficient alternative way to represent potential energy surfaces (PES) in many chemical simulations. The MLPs are often evaluated with the root-mean-square errors on the test set…

Based on an analysis of the short range chemical environment of each atom in a system, standard machine learning based approaches to the construction of interatomic potentials aim at determining directly the central quantity which is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 S. Alireza Ghasemi , Albert Hofstetter , Santanu Saha , Stefan Goedecker