arXiv Machine Learning

Loss-Guided Adaptive Scale Refinement for Molecular Force Prediction

arXiv:2606. 09480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular systems involve interactions across multiple spatial scales, from local coordination and short-range perturbations to long-range electrostatic and solvent-mediated effects.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

AquaGen: Scaling generative models to molecular dynamics precision on thousands of atoms

arXiv:2607. 03513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present AquaGen, the first all-atom, explicit solvent, periodic-boundary-condition-aware generative model that produces molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution at a fraction of the cost of molecular dynamics (MD).

By Emmanuel Bengio, Sanjeev Raja, Yui Tik Pang, Kerstin Klaeser, Cristian Gabellini, Nikhil Shenoy, Francesco Di Giovanni, Prudencio Tossou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Distilling latent electrostatics from foundation machine learning interatomic potentials

arXiv:2606. 15001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have enabled atomistic simulations across broad regions of chemical and materials space, but many remain computationally expensive and lack explicit electrostatics, limiting their use for systems governed by long-range interactions and electrical response.

By Xiaoyu Wang, Bingqing Cheng
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

A Large Scale Investigation of Scaling Limits in Chemical Language Models

The paper reports a large-scale, compute-controlled study of Chemical Language Models (CLMs) involving over 30,000 experiments across different molecular representations, tokenizations, model sizes, datasets, and architectures. It finds clear scaling trends in pretraining loss but shows that these improvements do not translate into proportional gains in goal-directed molecular design, with chemical syntax saturating early while semantic properties develop more slowly. The authors release a new suite of models, NovoMolGen, that achieves state-of-the-art results in drug discovery tasks, highlighting a disconnect between representation learning and downstream design and calling for new pretraining paradigms that target chemical semantics.

By Roshan Balaji, Kamran Chitsaz, Quentin Fournier, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, Sarath Chandar
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Hessian-based molecular conformation augmentation for a scalable and efficient strategy of machine learning interatomic potentials

The paper introduces two Hessian-based data augmentation techniques—UniAug and ModeAug—to improve machine‑learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). These methods use simple Taylor expansions to generate augmented configurations without modifying training objectives or increasing computational overhead. Experiments on both non‑equilibrium and equilibrium datasets show that the augmentations enhance model accuracy and provide practical guidelines for specific tasks.

By Bumju Kwak, Jeonghee Jo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

Active rejection enables reliable generalization of universal machine-learning interatomic potentials

arXiv:2607. 09456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) bridge quantum-mechanical accuracy and large-scale molecular dynamics, but the cost of high-accuracy calculations such as r$^2$SCAN limits training to datasets that remain small relative to the open materials space.

By Mingxiang Luo, Xinnan Mao, Lu Wang, Lei Bai, Feng Ding, Yuqiang Li