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Machine learning (ML) enables the development of powerful methods for predicting thermophysical properties with unprecedented scope and accuracy. However, technical barriers like cumbersome implementation in established workflows hinder…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Marco Hoffmann , Thomas Specht , Nicolas Hayer , Hans Hasse , Fabian Jirasek

The potential benefits of applying machine learning methods to -omics data are becoming increasingly apparent, especially in clinical settings. However, the unique characteristics of these data are not always well suited to machine learning…

The recent explosion of high-quality language models has necessitated new methods for identifying AI-generated text. Watermarking is a leading solution and could prove to be an essential tool in the age of generative AI. Existing approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Miranda Christ , Sam Gunn , Tal Malkin , Mariana Raykova

Catalyst discovery and optimization is key to solving many societal and energy challenges including solar fuels synthesis, long-term energy storage, and renewable fertilizer production. Despite considerable effort by the catalysis community…

Currently, identification of crystallization pathways in polymers is being carried out using molecular simulation-based data on a preset cut-off point on a single order parameter (OP) to define nucleated or crystallized regions. Aside from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Elyar Tourani , Brian J. Edwards , Bamin Khomami

Artificial intelligence-based methods are becoming increasingly effective at screening libraries of polymers down to a selection that is manageable for experimental inquiry. The vast majority of presently adopted approaches for polymer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-16 Rishi Gurnani , Christopher Kuenneth , Aubrey Toland , Rampi Ramprasad

While recent efforts have shown how local structure plays an essential role in the dynamic heterogeneity of homogeneous glass-forming materials, systems containing interfaces such as thin films or composite materials remain poorly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-27 Entao Yang , James F. Pressly , Bharath Natarajan , Robert Colby , Karen I. Winey , Robert A. Riggleman

This paper addresses the challenge of geometric quality assurance in manufacturing, particularly when human assessment is required. It proposes using Blender, an open-source simulation tool, to create synthetic datasets for machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Joel Sol , Amir M. Soufi Enayati , Homayoun Najjaran

Cold-chain storage limits access to insulin for hundreds of millions of people; a thermally protective patch polymer could help, but the design space is too large for exhaustive experiment. Starting from that problem, we narrow to an…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-20 Martins Otun

Machine learning (ML) is often viewed as a black-box regression technique that is unable to provide considerable scientific insight. ML models are universal function approximators and - if used correctly - can provide scientific information…

Machine learning models have been progressively used for predicting materials properties. These models can be built using pre-existing data and are useful for rapidly screening the physicochemical space of a material, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-17 Israrul H. Hashmi , Himanshu , Rahul Karmakar , Tarak K Patra

The advent of machine learning (ML) and computer vision has significantly accelerated seismic inversion workflows by reducing the computational cost of traditionally expensive iterative methods. However, the development and evaluation of ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ipsita Bhar , Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Thales Souza , Charles Jones , Felix J. Herrmann

A fundamental challenge in physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is the design of robust PIML methods for out-of-distribution (OOD) forecasting tasks. These OOD tasks require learning-to-learn from observations of the same (ODE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 S Chandra Mouli , Muhammad Ashraful Alam , Bruno Ribeiro

As models become increasingly sophisticated, conventional algorithm benchmarks are increasingly saturated, underscoring the need for more challenging benchmarks to guide future improvements in algorithmic reasoning. This paper introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yaoming Zhu , Junxin Wang , Yiyang Li , Lin Qiu , ZongYu Wang , Jun Xu , Xuezhi Cao , Yuhuai Wei , Mingshi Wang , Xunliang Cai , Rong Ma

The ongoing energy crisis has underscored the urgent need for energy-efficient materials with high energy utilization efficiency, prompting a surge in research into organic compounds due to their environmental compatibility, cost-effective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Qi Ou , Hongshuai Wang , Minyang Zhuang , Shangqian Chen , Lele Liu , Ning Wang , Zhifeng Gao

Inverse design is an outstanding challenge in disordered systems with multiple length scales such as polymers, particularly when designing polymers with desired phase behavior. We demonstrate high-accuracy tuning of poly(2-oxazoline) cloud…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-01 Jatin N. Kumar , Qianxiao Li , Karen Y. T. Tang , Tonio Buonassisi , Anibal L. Gonzalez-Oyarce , Jun Ye

Projecting climate change is a generalization problem: we extrapolate the recent past using physical models across past, present, and future climates. Current climate models require representations of processes that occur at scales smaller…

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is becoming a critical infrastructure for ocean observation, marine resource management, and climate science. Its development is hindered by severe acoustic attenuation, propagation delays far…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Kenechi Omeke , Attai Abubakar , Michael Mollel , Lei Zhang , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

The use of machine learning (ML) techniques to solve complex physical problems has been considered recently as a promising approach. However, the evaluation of such learned physical models remains an important issue for industrial use. The…

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