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We present our latest advancements of machine-learned potentials (MLPs) based on the neuroevolution potential (NEP) framework introduced in [Fan et al., Phys. Rev. B 104, 104309 (2021)] and their implementation in the open-source package…

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

Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations are crucial for accurately capturing nuclear quantum effects in materials. However, their computational intensity and reliance on multiple software packages often limit their applicability…

DeePMD-kit is a powerful open-source software package that facilitates molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials (MLP) known as Deep Potential (DP) models. This package, which was released in 2017, has been widely…

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations play an important role in understanding and engineering heat transport properties of complex materials. An essential requirement for reliably predicting heat transport properties is the use of accurate…

Recent developments in many-body potential energy representation via deep learning have brought new hopes to addressing the accuracy-versus-efficiency dilemma in molecular simulations. Here we describe DeePMD-kit, a package written in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Han Wang , Linfeng Zhang , Jiequn Han , Weinan E

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) such as neuroevolution potentials (NEP) combine quantum-mechanical accuracy with computational efficiency significantly accelerate atomistic dynamic simulations. Trained by derivative-free…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-14 Hongfu Huang , Junhao Peng , Kaiqi Li , Jian Zhou , Zhimei Sun

We develop a neuroevolution-potential (NEP) framework for generating neural network based machine-learning potentials. They are trained using an evolutionary strategy for performing large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Zheyong Fan , Zezhu Zeng , Cunzhi Zhang , Yanzhou Wang , Haikuan Dong , Yue Chen , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with high accuracy have been increasingly popular for their capability to bridge the gap between atomistic modeling and mesoscale phenomena. Both machine learning potentials and enhanced sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Haoting Zhang , Qiuhan Jia , Zhennan Zhang , Yijie Zhu , Zhongwei Zhang , Junjie Wang , Jiuyang Shi , Zheyong Fan , Jian Sun

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful computational tool to study the behavior of macromolecular systems. But many simulations of this field are limited in spatial or temporal scale by the available computational resource. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Ji Xu , Ying Ren , Wei Ge , Xiang Yu , Xiaozhen Yang , Jinghai Li

RUMD is a general purpose, high-performance molecular dynamics (MD) simulation package running on graphical processing units (GPU's). RUMD addresses the challenge of utilizing the many-core nature of modern GPU hardware when simulating…

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics and structure of matter. Since the resolution of MD is atomic-scale, achieving long time-scale simulations with femtosecond integration is very expensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zijie Li , Kazem Meidani , Prakarsh Yadav , Amir Barati Farimani

As a machine-learned potential, the neuroevolution potential (NEP) method features exceptional computational efficiency and has been successfully applied in materials science. Constructing high-quality training datasets is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chengbing Chen , Yutong Li , Rui Zhao , Zhoulin Liu , Zheyong Fan , Gang Tang , Zhiyong Wang

We present the GPU version of DeePMD-kit, which, upon training a deep neural network model using ab initio data, can drive extremely large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with ab initio accuracy. Our tests show that the GPU version…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Denghui Lu , Han Wang , Mohan Chen , Jiduan Liu , Lin Lin , Roberto Car , Weinan E , Weile Jia , Linfeng Zhang

A new molecular simulation toolkit composed of some lately developed force fields and specified models is presented to study the self-assembly, phase transition, and other properties of polymeric systems at mesoscopic scale by utilizing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 You-Liang Zhu , Hong Liu , Zhan-Wei Li , Hu-Jun Qian , Giuseppe Milano , Zhong-Yuan Lu

Neural network potentials (NNPs) are rapidly changing the landscape of state-of-the-art molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To make full use of this development, the community needs flexible, easy-to-use interfaces firmly integrated with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Lukas Müllender , Berk Hess , Erik Lindahl

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a means to enhance the accuracy of biomolecular simulations. However, their application is constrained by the significant computational cost arising from the vast number of parameters compared to…

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

GROMACS is a de-facto standard for classical Molecular Dynamics (MD). The rise of AI-driven interatomic potentials that pursue near-quantum accuracy at MD throughput now poses a significant challenge: embedding neural-network inference into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luca Pennati , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Lukas Müllender , Stefano Markidis

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju
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