arXiv:2610.06985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Atomistic foundation models triage millions of hypothetical materials but are used as slow simulators, their thresholded energies taken at face value...
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.
Automated materials discovery requires evaluating large pools of candidate configurations, with density functional theory (DFT) as a major throughput bottleneck. Pretrained machine-learned interatomic...
Crystal generators and tool-using agents propose structures faster than density functional theory (DFT) energy and phonon calculations or experiments can assess them. Deciding which candidates merit e...
arXiv:2610.19630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated materials discovery requires evaluating large pools of candidate configurations, with density functional theory (DFT) as a major throughput...
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.
arXiv:2510.19251v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting which hypothetical inorganic crystals can be experimentally realized remains a central challenge in accelerating materials discove...
arXiv:2508. 02641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP) is essential for applications in pharmaceuticals and organic electronics.
The paper proposes ANCHOR, a composition policy that decouples crystal structure prediction (CSP) from de novo crystal generation (DNG) by using a frozen CSP model as a fixed evaluator and training the policy with multi‑objective rewards, including adaptive novelty. ANCHOR significantly improves metrics such as MSUN and SUN compared to traditional DNG approaches, and demonstrates transferability across different CSP backbones and distillation into Crystalite‑CSP. The study shows that fine‑tuning DNG models directly on these rewards yields limited gains, whereas the ANCHOR framework better leverages the CSP prior for more efficient crystal discovery.
arXiv:2606. 28578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Closed-loop materials discovery iterates between proposing candidate structures and evaluating their properties, and property evaluation dominates the cost.
The paper introduces CrystAF, an all‑atom crystal flow‑map generation model, and evaluates where physics should be incorporated into generative crystal structure models. By applying physics‑informed post‑training, the authors improve molecular validity and crystal packing without altering sampling speed, while inference‑time corrections further refine the structures. The study demonstrates that post‑training and inference‑time physics are complementary, and that the post‑training approach transfers to other generators such as Clari‑M and MolCrystalFlow.
The paper introduces CG-OMatG, an equivariant Riemannian flow-based generative model that predicts molecular crystal structures using a coarse-grained, hierarchical representation. It treats molecules as rigid bodies, performs inter- and intra-molecular message passing, and learns to reconstruct molecule centroids, orientations, and lattice parameters conditioned on chemical species and conformer geometry. The model is trained on OMC25 and CSD datasets, fine-tuned with policy gradient reinforcement learning to favor low-energy structures, and validated against a CSP blind test benchmark using COMPACK packing-similarity analysis.