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In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization (CO) problems, such as maximum cut and maximum independent set. The core idea behind these methods is to represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Liu , Peng Zhang , Yang Gao , Chuan Zhou , Zhao Li , Hongyang Chen

Graph neural networks are widely used in machine learning applied to chemistry, and in particular for material science discovery. For crystalline materials, however, generating graph-based representation from geometrical information for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 Astrid Klipfel , Yaël Frégier , Adlane Sayede , Zied Bouraoui

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yang Liu , Chuan Zhou , Shuai Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xixun Lin , Shirui Pan

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have become a machine learning workhorse for screening the chemical space of crystalline materials in fields such as catalysis and energy storage, by predicting properties from structures.…

Crystal structure optimization is fundamental to materials modeling but remains computationally expensive when performed with density-functional theory (DFT). Machine-learning (ML) approaches offer substantial acceleration, yet existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-26 Ziduo Yang , Wei Zhuo , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoqing Liu , Lei Shen

Molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP) seeks the most stable periodic structure given the chemical composition of a molecule and pressure-temperature conditions. Modern CSP solvers use global optimization methods to search for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Miloslav Torda , John Y. Goulermas , Roland Púček , Vitaliy Kurlin

The recently proposed crystal graph convolutional neural network (CGCNN) offers a highly versatile and accurate machine learning (ML) framework by learning material properties directly from graph-like representations of crystal structures…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Cheol Woo Park , Chris Wolverton

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization of the extremely rugged high-dimensional potential energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-26 Xuecheng Shao , Jian Lv , Peng Liu , Sen Shao , Pengyue Gao , Hanyu Liu , Yanchao Wang , Yanming Ma

Organic molecular crystals underpin technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals to organic electronics, yet predicting solid-state packing of molecules remains challenging because candidate generation is combinatorial and stability is only…

We study Crystal Structure Prediction, one of the major problems in computational chemistry. This is essentially a continuous optimization problem, where many different, simple and sophisticated, methods have been proposed and applied. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Dmytro Antypov , Argyrios Deligkas , Vladimir Gusev , Matthew J. Rosseinsky , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

We have developed an efficient crystal structure prediction (CSP) method for desired chemical compositions, specifically suited for compounds featuring recurring molecules or rigid bodies. We applied this method to two metal chalcogenides:…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Qi Zhang , Amitava Choudhury , Aleksandr Chernatynskiy

Combinatorial optimization is a well-established area in operations research and computer science. Until recently, its methods have focused on solving problem instances in isolation, ignoring that they often stem from related data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Quentin Cappart , Didier Chételat , Elias Khalil , Andrea Lodi , Christopher Morris , Petar Veličković

High-pressure crystal structure prediction (CSP) underpins advances in condensed matter physics, planetary science, and materials discovery. Yet, most large atomistic models are trained on near-ambient, equilibrium data, leading to degraded…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Yinan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Jing Wu , Jian Lv , Han Wang

Materials discovery, especially for applications that require extreme operating conditions, requires extensive testing that naturally limits the ability to inquire the wealth of possible compositions. Machine Learning (ML) has nowadays a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Dario Massa , Daniel Cieśliński , Amirhossein Naghdi , Stefanos Papanikolaou

Recent years have witnessed the promise that reinforcement learning, coupled with Graph Neural Network (GNN) architectures, could learn to solve hard combinatorial optimization problems: given raw input data and an evaluator to guide the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Matteo Boffa , Zied Ben Houidi , Jonatan Krolikowski , Dario Rossi

Application of artificial intelligence (AI) has been ubiquitous in the growth of research in the areas of basic sciences. Frequent use of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based methodologies by researchers has resulted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-10 Shrimon Mukherjee , Madhusudan Ghosh , Partha Basuchowdhuri

This study presents a deep learning approach to predicting structural and electronic properties of materials using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Leveraging data from the Materials Project database, we construct graph representations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-20 Selva Chandrasekaran Selvaraj

Graphs are a natural representation for systems based on relations between connected entities. Combinatorial optimization problems, which arise when considering an objective function related to a process of interest on discrete structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

A routine crystallography technique, crystal structure analysis, is rarely performed in computational condensed matter research. The lack of methods to identify and characterize crystal structures reliably in particle simulation data…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-29 Michael Engel

Graph partitioning is one of an important set of well-known compute-intense (NP-hard) graph problems that devolve to discrete constrained optimization. We sampled solutions to the problem via two different quantum-ready methods to…