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Discovering crystal structures with specific chemical properties has become an increasingly important focus in material science. However, current models are limited in their ability to generate new crystal lattices, as they only consider…

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Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) remains a fundamental challenge with significant implications for the development of new materials and the advancement of various scientific disciplines. Recent developments have shown that generative…

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The combination of deep learning algorithm and materials science has made significant progress in predicting novel materials and understanding various behaviours of materials. Here, we introduced a new model called as the Crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Zijian Du , Luozhijie Jin , Le Shu , Yan Cen , Yuanfeng Xu , Yongfeng Mei , Hao Zhang

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) is crucial in various scientific disciplines. While CSP can be addressed by employing currently-prevailing generative models (e.g. diffusion models), this task encounters unique challenges owing to the…

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Inverse design of solid-state materials with desired properties represents a formidable challenge in materials science. Although recent generative models have demonstrated potential, their adoption has been hindered by limitations such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-15 Yan Chen , Xueru Wang , Xiaobin Deng , Yilun Liu , Xi Chen , Yunwei Zhang , Lei Wang , Hang Xiao

Crystal structure prediction algorithms have become powerful tools for materials discovery in recent years, however, they are usually limited to relatively small systems. The main challenge is that the number of local minima grows…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-09 Hao Gao , Junjie Wang , Yu Han , Jian Sun

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…

Efficiently generating energetically stable crystal structures has long been a challenge in material design, primarily due to the immense arrangement of atoms in a crystal lattice. To facilitate the discovery of stable material, we present…

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The discovery of novel solid-state materials, such as electrocatalysts, super-ionic conductors, or photovoltaic materials, plays a critical role in addressing various global challenges. It has, for instance, the potential to significantly…

Crystal structures are characterised by repeating atomic patterns within unit cells across three-dimensional space, posing unique challenges for graph-based representation learning. Current methods often overlook essential periodic boundary…

We consider representation learning on periodic graphs encoding crystal materials. Different from regular graphs, periodic graphs consist of a minimum unit cell repeating itself on a regular lattice in 3D space. How to effectively encode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Keqiang Yan , Yi Liu , Yuchao Lin , Shuiwang Ji

Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained…

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In addressing the challenge of Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP), symmetry-aware deep learning models, particularly diffusion models, have been extensively studied, which treat CSP as a conditional generation task. However, ensuring…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-09 Peijia Lin , Pin Chen , Rui Jiao , Qing Mo , Jianhuan Cen , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu , Dan Huang , Yutong Lu

Generative models have become significant assets in the exploration and identification of new materials, enabling the rapid proposal of candidate crystal structures that satisfy target properties. Despite the increasing adoption of diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Charles Rhys Campbell , Aldo H. Romero , Kamal Choudhary

Determining whether a candidate crystalline material is thermodynamically stable depends on identifying its true ground-state structure, a central challenge in computational materials science. We introduce CrystalGRW, a diffusion-based…

Crystal graph neural networks are widely applicable in modeling experimentally synthesized compounds and hypothetical materials with unknown synthesizability. In contrast, structure-agnostic predictive algorithms allow exploring previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Ivan Rubtsov , Ivan Dudakov , Yuri Kuratov , Vadim Korolev

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…

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Generating the periodic structure of stable materials is a long-standing challenge for the material design community. This task is difficult because stable materials only exist in a low-dimensional subspace of all possible periodic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Tian Xie , Xiang Fu , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Crystal structure generation is a foundational challenge in materials discovery, particularly in designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with desired properties. Most existing diffusion-based generative models for crystals rely…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Sourav Mal , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

Accurately predicting crystal properties is critical for accelerating materials discovery, but it is often limited by scarce labeled data and costly theoretical calculations. To alleviate this, we propose UNATE (Unsupervised Atomic…

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