arXiv:2606. 05050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Theoretical heterogeneous catalysis promises rapid catalyst discovery, yet computational and machine-learning predictions often deviate from experiment and stay confined to narrow material families, for want of a faithful, condition-aware catalytic simulator.
By Zhilong Song, Zongmin Zhang, Lixue Cheng
arXiv:2606. 30961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in deep learning architectures and representations have enabled ML-driven chemical property prediction, but state-of-the-art (SOTA) models have remained largely confined to independent codebases and lack support for diverse chemical species.
By Jacob W. Toney, Samir Darouich, Yiran Wang, Aaron G. Garrison, Johannes K\"astner, Heather J. Kulik
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:2606. 19152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying the lowest-energy surface-adsorbate configuration is critical for modeling heterogeneous catalysis, yet exhaustive exploration with ab initio calculations is computationally prohibitive.
By Zongmin Zhang, Yuyang Lou, Bowen Zhang, Junwu Chen, Ryo Kuroki, Xuan Vu Nguyen, Edvin Fako, Lixue Cheng, Philippe Schwaller
SoLiD26 is a curated dataset of 15.4 million first‑principles atomic structures for solid‑liquid interfaces, comprising up to 576 atoms and 15 chemical elements. The data were generated from density functional theory calculations, mainly ab initio molecular dynamics, and include aqueous coinage metal interfaces, electrode‑electrolyte systems, and bulk references. Each record contains atomic species, positions, cell parameters, periodic boundary conditions, potential energy, and atomic forces, all computed with VASP using the PBE functional and D3 dispersion corrections.
By Jonas Busk, Emil J. P. Frost, Yogeshwaran Krishnan, Henrik H. Kristoffersen, August E. G. Mikkelsen, Xueping Qin, Xin Yang, Heine A. Hansen, Arghya Bhowmik, Tejs Vegge
Identifying the lowest-energy surface-adsorbate configuration is critical for modeling heterogeneous catalysis, yet exhaustive exploration with ab initio calculations is computationally prohibitive. Machine-learning force fields (MLFFs) accelerate structural relaxation but leave the search over the vast configurational space a major bottleneck, and open-loop large language model (LLM) agents lack a physics-grounded feedback mechanism to correct erroneous initial guesses.
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
Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for solid-liquid interfaces in advanced materials applications, e.g., electrochemistry, catalysis and corrosion, require training data that samples both...
BranchIP introduces a single-model framework that learns adaptive tensor product computation for equivariant machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). Using a novel distillation loss, it achieves up to 2.4× speed‑up and 2.6× memory reduction across model sizes while preserving physical fidelity. The adaptive computation also offers interpretability by indicating which interactions require deeper processing and how depth correlates with chemical complexity and dynamics.
By Laura Zichi, Gil Harari, Chuin Wei Tan, Marc L. Descoteaux, Albert Zhu, Menghang Wang, Yoel Zimmermann, H. T. Kung, Boris Kozinsky
BOOM is a new benchmark for evaluating out‑of‑distribution (OOD) molecular property predictions in machine learning. It provides chemically‑informed tests across common property prediction tasks and assesses over 150 model‑task combinations. The study shows that current models, including chemical foundation models, struggle to generalize OOD, with the best model still exhibiting three times higher error than in‑distribution predictions.
By Evan R. Antoniuk, Shehtab Zaman, Tal Ben-Nun, Peggy Li, James Diffenderfer, Busra Sahin, Obadiah Smolenski, Everett Grethel, Tim Hsu, Anna M. Hiszpanski, Kenneth Chiu, Bhavya Kailkhura, Brian Van Essen
arXiv:2607. 11712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse design is an emerging data-driven paradigm for efficiently navigating vast chemical spaces to discover new materials with targeted properties, and in the context of heterogeneous catalysis, surface generative models have recently advanced this goal by directly generating catalyst surface-adsorbate structures.
By Jungho Oh, Woosung Kim, Dong Hyeon Mok, Jonggeol Na, Seoin Back
arXiv:2602. 04861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) sometimes fail to reproduce the physical smoothness of the quantum potential energy surface (PES), leading to erroneous behavior in downstream simulations that standard energy and force regression evaluations can miss.
By Ryan Liu, Eric Qu, Tobias Kreiman, Samuel M. Blau, Aditi S. Krishnapriyan