DeepH-pack: A general-purpose neural network package for deep-learning electronic structure calculations
Abstract
In computational physics and materials science, first-principles methods, particularly density functional theory, have become central tools for electronic structure prediction and materials design. Recently, rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have begun to reshape the research landscape, giving rise to the emerging field of deep-learning electronic structure calculations. Despite numerous pioneering studies, the field remains in its early stages; existing software implementations are often fragmented, lacking unified frameworks and standardized interfaces required for broad community adoption. Here we present DeepH-pack, a comprehensive and unified software package that integrates first-principles calculations with deep learning. By incorporating fundamental physical principles into neural-network design, such as the nearsightedness principle and the equivariance principle, DeepH-pack achieves robust cross-scale and cross-material generalizability. This allows models trained on small-scale structures to generalize to large-scale and previously unseen materials. The toolkit preserves first-principles accuracy while accelerating electronic structure calculations by several orders of magnitude, establishing an efficient and intelligent computational paradigm for large-scale materials simulation, high-throughput materials database construction, and AI-driven materials discovery.
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@article{arxiv.2601.02938,
title = {DeepH-pack: A general-purpose neural network package for deep-learning electronic structure calculations},
author = {Yang Li and Yanzhen Wang and Boheng Zhao and Xiaoxun Gong and Yuxiang Wang and Zechen Tang and Zixu Wang and Zilong Yuan and Jialin Li and Minghui Sun and Zezhou Chen and Honggeng Tao and Baochun Wu and Yuhang Yu and He Li and Felipe H. da Jornada and Wenhui Duan and Yong Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02938},
year = {2026}
}
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19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table