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We present a benchmark designed to evaluate the predictive capabilities of universal machine learning interatomic potentials across systems of varying dimensionality. Specifically, our benchmark tests zero- (molecules, atomic clusters,…

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In the field of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs), understanding the intricate relationship between data biases, specifically conformational and structural diversity, and model generalization is critical in improving the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Nikhil Shenoy , Prudencio Tossou , Emmanuel Noutahi , Hadrien Mary , Dominique Beaini , Jiarui Ding

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have proven to be wildly useful for molecular dynamics simulations, powering countless drug and materials discovery applications. However, MLIPs face two primary bottlenecks preventing them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kevin Han , Haolin Cong , Bowen Deng , Amir Barati Farimani

Interatomic potentials are essential for driving molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, directly impacting the reliability of predictions regarding the physical and chemical properties of materials. In recent years, machine-learned potentials…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Penghua Ying , Cheng Qian , Rui Zhao , Yanzhou Wang , Feng Ding , Shunda Chen , Zheyong Fan

The number of published Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) has increased significantly in recent years. These new data-driven potential energy approximations often lack the physics-based foundations that inform many…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Kimia Ghaffari , Salil Bavdekar , Douglas E. Spearot , Ghatu Subhash

We introduce a lightweight universal machine-learning interatomic potential (uMLIP), SevenNet-Nano, based on the graph neural network architecture SevenNet and enabled by a knowledge-distillation framework. The model inherits the broad…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Sangmin Oh , Jinmu You , Jaesun Kim , Jiho Lee , Hyungmin An , Seungwu Han , Youngho Kang

We propose a novel approach for constructing training databases for Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential (MLIP) models, specifically designed to capture phase properties across a wide range of conditions. The framework is uniquely…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Vincent G. Fletcher , Albert P. Bartók , Livia B. Pártay

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) methods have led to substantial improvement in materials property prediction against community benchmarks, but an excellent benchmark score may not imply good generalization of performance. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Kangming Li , Brian DeCost , Kamal Choudhary , Michael Greenwood , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

The training of foundational machine learning interatomic potentials (fMLIPs) relies on diverse databases with energies and forces calculated using ab initio methods. We show that fMLIPs trained on large datasets such as MPtrj, Alexandria,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Thomas Warford , Fabian L. Thiemann , Gábor Csányi

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

Machine learning interatomic potentials (ML-IAPs) enable quantum-accurate, classical molecular dynamics simulations of large systems, beyond reach of density functional theory (DFT). Yet, their efficiency and ability to predict systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Gábor Csányi , Erik van der Giessen , Francesco Maresca

An adaptive physics-inspired model design strategy for machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) is proposed. This strategy relies on iterative reconfigurations of composite models from single-term models, followed by a unified…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Weishi Wang , Mark K. Transtrum , Vincenzo Lordi , Vasily V. Bulatov , Amit Samanta

Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have surged in popularity due to their promise of expanding the spatiotemporal scales possible for simulating molecules with high fidelity. The accuracy of any MLIP is dependent on the data…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-27 Natalie E. Hooven , Arthur Y. Lin , Charles H. Carroll , Rose K. Cersonsky

Machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations have an enormous prospective impact on materials modeling, offering orders of magnitude speedup over density functional theory (DFT) calculations without appreciably sacrificing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-20 Dylan Bayerl , Christopher M. Andolina , Shyam Dwaraknath , Wissam A. Saidi

Accurate phase diagram prediction is crucial for understanding alloy thermodynamics and advancing materials design. While traditional CALPHAD methods are robust, they are resource-intensive and limited by experimentally assessed data. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Siya Zhu , Raymundo Arróyave , Doğuhan Sarıtürk

Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) have successfully demonstrated scaling behavior, i.e. the power-law improvement in training performance, however the emergence of novel capabilities at scale remains unexplored. We have…

Uranium monocarbide (UC) is an advanced ceramic fuel candidate due to its superior uranium density and thermal conductivity compared to traditional fuels. To accurately model UC at reactor operating conditions, we developed a machine…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have rapidly progressed in accuracy, speed, and data efficiency in recent years. However, training robust MLIPs in multicomponent systems still remains a challenge. In this work, we train a…

Machine-learned interatomic potentials can offer near first-principles accuracy but are computationally expensive, limiting their application to large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Inspired by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Fraser Birks , Matthew Nutter , Thomas D Swinburne , James R Kermode

Although the tailored metal active sites and porous architectures of MOFs hold great promise for engineering challenges ranging from gas separations to catalysis, a lack of understanding of how to improve their stability limits their use in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-28 Aditya Nandy , Chenru Duan , Heather J. Kulik