arXiv Machine Learning

Iterative Atom Refinement: A Monotonicity Principle for Dictionary Learning

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 21

Physical-Support Confidence Sets for Highly Coherent Dictionaries

arXiv:2608. 20295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse pursuit after dictionary learning can yield a precise atom support even when its physical interpretation is not justified by the calibration data, especially for highly coherent dictionaries where alternative calibration-compatible dictionaries may assign different physical meanings to the same selected support.

By Guan-Ju Peng
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Truncated automatic sparse differentiation for machine learning interatomic potentials

The paper introduces truncated automatic sparse differentiation (ASD) to efficiently compute higher‑order derivatives, such as Hessians, for machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). By exploiting the locality of atomic interactions, ASD identifies a sparsity pattern that allows exact Hessian calculation for large porous materials, while truncated ASD discards distant, small Hessian entries to achieve order‑of‑magnitude speedups with minimal loss in predictive accuracy. The authors demonstrate these methods on several foundational MLIPs, showing modest speedups for full ASD and significant gains for the truncated approach.

By Marcel F. Langer, Adrian Hill, Michele Ceriotti
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

A strategic roadmap for an atomistic machine-learning ecosystem

arXiv:2609.39090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques have become an essential tool in many domains of science. Their application to atomistic simulations of...

By J\"org Behler, Michele Ceriotti, Cecilia Clementi, G\'abor Cs\'anyi, Alin-Marin Elena, Aditi Krishnapriyan, Joseph W. Abbott, Fabio Affinito, Albert P. Bart\'ok, Ilyes Batatia, Filippo Bigi, Florian N. Br\"unig, Yannick Calvino Alonso, Giuseppe Carleo, Aur\'elie Champagne, Stefan Chmiela, Marc L. Descoteaux, Ralf Drautz, Alexandra Farcas, Meng Gao, Rohit Goswami, Michael F. Herbst, Christian Holm, James R. Kermode, Alexander L. M. Knoll, Tobias Kreiman, Hoang-Thien Luu, Yury Lysogorskiy, Mihai-Cosmin Marinica, Rocco Meli, Klaus-Robert M\"uller, Frank No\'e, Mohamadhosein Nosratjoo, Simon Olsson, Christoph Ortner, Aldo S. Pasos-Trejo, Anyang Peng, Eric Qu, Andrea Rizzi, Mariana Rossi, Bassem Sboui, Gregor N. C. Simm, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Jacopo Venturin, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, William C. Witt, Brandon M. Wood, Tigany Zarrouk, Fabian Zills
arXiv AI
6d ago

AtomWorld-Mem: Memory-Restored World States for Long-Horizon Atomistic Evolution

AtomWorld-Mem is a memory‑restored atomistic world model that reconstructs hidden world states from incomplete crystal snapshots, enabling more accurate long‑horizon atomistic evolution. It uses spatial encoders to capture multi‑scale keyframes and integrates short‑term event memory with long‑term structural memory to predict future states. The restored state guides vacancy‑mediated events in kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, improving progress under fixed event budgets while preserving fidelity across energetic, structural, and transport observables, and it transfers zero‑shot across unseen alloy‑temperature scenarios.

By Tian Luo, Ruge Zhang, Haozhi Han, Yifrng Chen, Yunquan Zhang, Yunxin Liu, Ting Cao, Kun Li
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Learning Nuclear Structure with AI: Radii and Collectivity

The paper presents NuCLR, a multi-task neural network that learns nuclear data representations to predict charge radii and electric‑quadrupole transition strengths across hundreds of nuclides. Using held‑out ensembles, the model achieves a charge‑radius RMS deviation of 0.0147 fm and a B(E2) RMS deviation of 0.192 e²b², comparable to leading nuclear models. The authors provide error bars indicating where additional experimental data could improve predictions, positioning NuCLR as a data‑driven surveyor of nuclear structure.

By Giuliano Giacalone, Sokratis Trifinopoulos, Mike Williams