arXiv AI

PhononBench-MP40: a spectrum-resolved benchmark dataset for phonon stability

arXiv:2607. 22573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imaginary phonon modes remain a practical bottleneck in computational materials screening because otherwise plausible structures can be locally dynamically unstable under a chosen workflow.

arXiv AI
Jun 12

PhononBench:A Large-Scale Phonon-Based Benchmark for Dynamical Stability in Crystal Generation

arXiv:2512. 21227v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, generative artificial intelligence has made significant advances in the design of crystalline materials, giving rise to approaches based on graph neural networks, diffusion models, and large language models.

By Xiao-Qi Han, Ze-Feng Gao, Wen-Kao Li, Peng-Jie Guo, Zhong-Yi Lu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

PFT: Phonon Fine-tuning for Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials

arXiv:2601. 07742v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many materials properties depend on higher-order derivatives of the potential energy surface, yet machine learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) trained with a standard loss on energy, force, and stress errors can exhibit error in curvature, degrading the prediction of vibrational properties.

By Teddy Koker, Abhijeet Gangan, Mit Kotak, Jaime Marian, Tess Smidt
arXiv AI
Sep 11

uFlowCSP: Crystal Structure Prediction using Mean flow generative models

uFlowCSP is a MeanFlow-based crystal structure prediction model that learns the average probability‑flow velocity, enabling it to generate complete crystal structures in one to five network evaluations. It achieves inference speeds 5×–58× faster than diffusion and flow‑matching methods while matching or surpassing their performance, with a chemistry‑ and symmetry‑aware Transformer that uses canonical atom ordering and per‑token chemistry embeddings. On the MP‑20 benchmark, uFlowCSP attains comparable or higher accuracy with far fewer evaluations and significantly lower wall‑clock time, demonstrating improved accuracy per network evaluation.

By Sourin Dey, Dipannoy Das Gupta, Lai Wei, Sadman Sadeed Omee, Jianjun Hu
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Autonomous discovery of new structure-plausibility laws for explainable and rapid crystal diagnosis and screening

The paper reports that autonomous agents can generate, test, and refute millions of candidate structure-plausibility laws, ultimately producing eight Plausibility Rules for Inorganic Structures (PRIS) that capture five key mechanisms of crystal stability. PRIS achieves high agreement with experimental structures (82–99%) and outperforms traditional Pauling rules, detecting damaged crystals with 87.9% accuracy and correlating strongly with synthesizability. By integrating PRIS with a synthesis score (PSS), the authors demonstrate significant reductions in expensive DFT validation and improved inverse-design efficiency, while also providing chemical explanations for failures and anomalies in crystal data.

By Zhilong Song, Lixue Cheng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

MolCryst-MLIPs: A Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials Database for Molecular Crystals

arXiv:2604. 13897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present an open Molecular Crystal (MC) database of Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials (MLIP) called MolCryst-MLIPs.

By Adam Lahouari, Shen Ai, Jihye Han, Jillian Hoffstadt, Philipp Hoellmer, Charlotte Infante, Pulkita Jain, Sangram Kadam, Maya M. Martirossyan, Amara McCune, Hypatia Newton, Shlok J. Paul, Willmor Pena, Jonathan Raghoonanan, Sumon Sahu, Oliver Tan, Andrea Vergara, Jutta Rogal, Mark E. Tuckerman
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

FastCSP: Accelerated Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction with Universal Model for Atoms

arXiv:2508. 02641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP) is essential for applications in pharmaceuticals and organic electronics.

By Vahe Gharakhanyan, Yi Yang, Luis Barroso-Luque, Daniel S. Levine, Sushree Jagriti Sahoo, Brandon M. Wood, Kyle Michel, Muhammed Shuaibi, Gregory J. O. Beran, Viachaslau Bernat, Misko Dzamba, Xiang Fu, Meng Gao, Xingyu Liu, Benjamin K. Miller, Keian Noori, Lafe J. Purvis, Tingling Rao, Ammar Rizvi, Matt Uyttendaele, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Chiara Daraio, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Arman Boromand, Noa Marom, Zachary W. Ulissi, Anuroop Sriram