Crystal generators can now propose periodic structures, but their control interfaces remain poorly matched to the mixed descriptors used in materials design. Text provides a compact way to combine com...
Molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP) is important in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and organic electronics, where subtle differences in molecular conformation and packing can strongly affect...
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
Packora is a flow-based generative model designed for molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP). It jointly predicts atomic coordinates and lattice parameters from molecular graphs, supporting multi-component and organometallic crystals and allowing conditioning on conformers, stereochemistry, and space-group data. In evaluations inspired by the CCDC CSP blind test, Packora outperforms baselines on generation and ranking benchmarks, achieving superior matched-budget coverage, higher experimental-form recovery, lower ranks, and faster convergence.
By Nayoung Kim, Kiyoung Seong, Sungsoo Ahn
arXiv:2606. 14215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has inspired the vision of generating bespoke crystal materials directly from natural-language instructions, enabling users to design materials through intuitive, conversational interaction.
By Yusei Ito, Yuta Suzuki, Tomoya Murata, Masaki Adachi
arXiv:2601. 09285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials with broad applications such as carbon capture and drug delivery, yet accurately predicting their 3D structures remains a significant challenge.
By Mianzhi Pan, JianFei Li, Peishuo Liu, Botian Wang, Yawen Ouyang, Yiming Rong, Hao Zhou, Jianbing Zhang
arXiv:2602. 17176v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Crystal structure prediction (CSP), which aims to predict the 3D atomic arrangement of a crystal from its composition, is central to materials discovery and mechanistic understanding.
By Jinming Mu, Lixin He, Xudong Zhu, Shi Yin
arXiv:2609.17646v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This thesis develops robust and efficient AI frameworks for accelerating crystalline materials discovery by addressing both major stages of the mater...
By Kishalay Das
arXiv:2410. 08562v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advanced crystal design can accelerate materials discovery across applications from photovoltaics to spintronics.
By Akihiro Fujii, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Koji Shimizu, Anh Khoa Augustin Lu, Satoshi Watanabe
arXiv:2607. 28553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the 3D structures of atomic systems is fundamental to advancing material science and drug discovery.
By Shentong Mo, Yatao Bian
arXiv:2608. 06448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recovering a periodic 3D crystal structure from sparse, unindexed electron diffraction (ED) observations is a challenging generative inverse problem.
By Germain Poloudenny, Ya\"el Fr\'egier, Arnaud Demorti\`ere
arXiv:2608. 11283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computation-ready metal-organic framework (MOF) databases are essential for high-throughput screening, yet many reported crystal structures remain chemically unreasonable or disordered, compromising simulation fidelity.
By Guobin Zhao, Xiao-Yan Li