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Crystal structure modeling with graph neural networks is essential for various applications in materials informatics, and capturing SE(3)-invariant geometric features is a fundamental requirement for these networks. A straightforward…

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The present study proposes a new structure selection approach for non-linear system identification based on Two-Dimensional particle swarms (2D-UPSO). The 2D learning framework essentially extends the learning dimension of the conventional…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Faizal Hafiz , Akshya Swain , Eduardo MAM Mendes

Crystal property prediction, governed by quantum mechanical principles, is computationally prohibitive to solve exactly for large many-body systems using traditional density functional theory. While machine learning models have emerged as…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-28 Bin Cao , Yang Liu , Longhan Zhang , Yifan Wu , Zhixun Li , Yuyu Luo , Hong Cheng , Yang Ren , Tong-Yi Zhang

Crystalline materials are widely used in technological applications, yet their discovery remains a significant challenge. As their properties are driven by structure, crystal structure prediction (CSP) methods play a central role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Stavros Gerolymatos , J. Kyle Brubaker , Martin J. A. Schuetz , Vladimir V. Gusev

Structural prediction for the discovery of novel materials is a long sought after goal of computational physics and materials sciences. The success is rather limited for methods such as the simulated annealing method (SA) that require…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Yifeng Duan , Zijing Lin

Recent advances in Foundation Models for Materials Science are poised to revolutionize the discovery, manufacture, and design of novel materials with tailored properties and responses. Although great strides have been made, successes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Michael Buzzy , Andreas Robertson , Peng Chen , Surya Kalidindi

Determination of crystal structures of nanocrystalline or amorphous compounds is a great challenge in solid states chemistry and physics. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-Ray or neutron total scattering data has proven to be a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Magnus Kløve , Sanna Sommer , Bo B. Iversen , Bjørk Hammer , Wilke Dononelli

Uncovering which feature combinations are encoded by visual units is critical to understanding how images are transformed into representations that support recognition. While existing feature visualization approaches typically infer a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lorenzo Tausani , Paolo Muratore , Morgan B. Talbot , Giacomo Amerio , Gabriel Kreiman , Davide Zoccolan

Ab initio prediction of the variation of properties in the configurational space of solid solutions is computationally very demanding. We present an approach to accelerate these predictions via a combination of density functional theory and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-23 Pablo Sánchez-Palencia , Said Hamad , Pablo Palacios , Ricardo Grau-Crespo , Keith T. Butler

We present Genarris, a Python package that performs configuration space screening for molecular crystals of rigid molecules by random sampling with physical constraints. For fast energy evaluations Genarris employs a Harris approximation,…

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Existing Genetic Algorithms for crystal structure and polymorph prediction can suffer from stagnation during evolution, with a consequent loss of efficiency and accuracy. An improved Genetic Algorithm (GA) is introduced herein which…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-13 N. L. Abraham , M. I. J. Probert

Crystal structure prediction remains a major challenge in materials science, directly impacting the discovery and development of next-generation materials. We introduce TCSP 2.0, a substantial evolution of our template-based crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-01 Lai Wei , Rongzhi Dong , Nihang Fu , Sadman Sadeed Omee , Jianjun Hu

Molecular crystal structure prediction represents a grand challenge in computational chemistry due to large sizes of constituent molecules and complex intra- and intermolecular interactions. While generative modeling has revolutionized…

In this paper, we study the construction of structural models for the description of substitutional defects in crystalline materials. Predicting and designing the atomic structures in such systems is highly challenging due to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Xiaoxu Li , Ge Xu , Huajie Chen , Xingyu Gao , Haifeng Song

Ranked set sampling (RSS) is a cost-efficient study design that uses inexpensive baseline ranking to select a more informative subset of individuals for full measurement. While RSS is well known to improve precision over simple random…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Nabil Awan , Richard J. Chappell

Crystal Structure Prediction (CSP) aims to discover solid crystalline materials by optimizing periodic arrangements of atoms, ions or molecules. CSP takes weeks of supercomputer time because of slow energy minimizations for millions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Jakob Ropers , Marco M Mosca , Olga Anosova , Vitaliy Kurlin , Andrew I Cooper

As the number of theoretically predicted materials continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to assess not only their thermodynamic stability but also their kinetic viability under realistic synthesis conditions. In this study,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Max C. Gallant , David Mrdjenovich , Kristin A. Persson

We propose a new ensemble prediction method, Random Subset Averaging (RSA), tailored for settings with many covariates, particularly in the presence of strong correlations. RSA constructs candidate models via binomial random subset strategy…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Wenhao Cui , Jie Hu

The geometric design of structures with optimized physical and chemical properties is one of the core topics in materials science. However, designing new functional materials is challenging due to the vast number of existing and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Congcong Cui , Guangfeng Wei , Matthias Saba , Yuanyuan Cao , Lu Han