arXiv AI

Deep Scientific Reasoning under Physical Constraints: Structure-Aware Spectrum Prediction

DeepSciReasoner is a new framework for predicting scientific spectra that respects hard physical constraints such as conservation laws and spectral geometry. By combining structure‑aware decoding with constraint‑preserving reasoning, it can accurately predict electronic density of states, phonon density of states, XANES, and Raman spectra while maintaining physical consistency. The authors demonstrate substantial improvements in prediction accuracy across these diverse spectral types.

arXiv AI
Jul 9

Accurate, Interdisciplinary and Transparent Structure-property Understanding with Deep Native Structural Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 07708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structure-property relationships are foundational to biology, chemistry and materials science, where function, reactivity and physical response emerge from spatial, chemical and periodic organization.

By Chen Tang, Yizhou Wang, Jianyu Wu, Lintao Wang, Shixiang Tang, Pengze Li, Encheng Su, Jun Yao, Jiabei Xiao, Yuqi Shi, Jielan Li, Hongxia Hao, Zhangyang Gao, Fang Wu, Ben Fei, Xiangyu Yue, Pan Tan, Bozitao Zhong, Jinouwen Zhang, Aoran Wang, Yan Lu, Jiaheng Liu, Xinzhu Ma, Liang Hong, Mingyue Zheng, Phil Torr, Bowen Zhou, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

Accurate, Interdisciplinary and Transparent Structure-property Understanding with Deep Native Structural Reasoning

Structure-property relationships are foundational to biology, chemistry and materials science, where function, reactivity and physical response emerge from spatial, chemical and periodic organization. Mechanistically explaining these relationships requires interpreting structural evidence through scientific principles and physical constraints, from stereochemistry and bonding to symmetry, energetics and periodic order.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

SPEAR: Structure Property Explainability with Attention Regularization

arXiv:2608. 13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning is increasingly used to learn structure property relationships from spectroscopic and diffraction data, yet its adoption in materials discovery is often limited by poor interpretability of model predictions.

By Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush, Dalton A. Pearl, Jade Holliman Jr, Katharine Page, Philip D Rack, Sergei V Kalinin
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 2

Surprisingly High Redundancy in Electronic Structure Data Across Materials Explained by Low Intrinsic Dimensionality

The study shows that electronic structure datasets used for machine learning contain significant redundancy due to low intrinsic dimensionality. Random pruning and a coverage-based strategy can reduce dataset size by up to two orders of magnitude while preserving chemical accuracy and generalizability, cutting training time by a factor of three or more. The essential information lies on a low‑dimensional, non‑linear manifold, suggesting that large datasets may be largely overlapping and that minimal, representative datasets could suffice for accurate predictions.

By Sazzad Hossain, Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan, Shashank Pathrudkar, Stephanie Taylor, Abhijeet S. Gangan, Amartya S. Banerjee, Susanta Ghosh
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 26

Physics-Aware Self-Supervised Pretraining on Multi-Domain Raman Spectra

The paper presents a physics‑aware, multi‑domain self‑supervised learning framework for Raman spectroscopy that uses a masked autoencoder with a sparse Voigt‑profile decoder and a denoising objective. It learns transferable spectral representations from diverse biological, chemical, forensic, and materials datasets, and demonstrates improved performance on substance classification, component identification, concentration estimation, and spectral denoising. The study shows that self‑supervised pretraining is especially beneficial for tasks with limited labeled data, that attention‑based probing reveals richer information than linear probing, and that larger encoders benefit more from pretraining.

By Charalampos Davalas, Georgios Levantinos, Anastasios Dimitriou, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Michail
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

Transformers Discover Molecular Structure Without Graph Priors

The paper investigates whether machine learning models can uncover physical patterns in atomistic data without relying on traditional physics-based inductive biases such as geometric locality or graph structures. By training a general-purpose architecture on molecular simulation data, the authors demonstrate that the model autonomously learns interatomic interaction strengths resembling classical electrostatics and identifies interaction cutoffs aligned with established physical models. The study also reports predictable neural scaling behavior and competitive accuracy on certain metrics compared to physics-informed architectures, suggesting that explicit priors may only be necessary when empirically justified.

By Tobias Kreiman, Yutong Bai, Fadi Atieh, Elizabeth Weaver, Eric Qu, Aditi S. Krishnapriyan