arXiv AI

DISTAL: Distillation and Self-Supervised Pretraining for Structure-Agnostic Materials Property Prediction

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Robust and Efficient AI Frameworks for Scalable Material Design and Property Prediction

The thesis presents AI frameworks that accelerate crystalline materials discovery by tackling both crystal property prediction and crystal structure generation. It introduces CrysXPP, CrysGNN, and CrysMMNet for efficient, data‑sparse property prediction using graph autoencoding, self‑supervised pretraining, and multimodal learning. For generation, TGDMat is a text‑guided diffusion model that jointly learns lattice parameters, atomic types, and coordinates, enabling valid, stable, and conditionally generated periodic materials.

By Kishalay Das
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 AI
Oct 28

AC-JEPA: Anchored Cross-Modal Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Visual-to-Symbolic Translation

AC-JEPA is a plug‑in for supervised fine‑tuning that predicts masked intermediate states in both directions of a cross‑modal translation task, combining a joint‑embedding objective with causal token‑level supervision. It is designed to be robust to imperfect paired data by learning from continuous latent targets derived from pseudo‑labels, rather than hard categorical supervision. In optical chemical structure recognition, AC‑JEPA outperforms plain supervised fine‑tuning, achieving 76.07 % accuracy on clean pairs and 80.23 % when self‑training with pseudo‑labels, whereas SFT alone drops to 63.47 % under the same conditions.

By Chaofei Hong, Ziyang Chen, Baochen Wang, Christina Yi Jin, Qing Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

MatMind: A Structure-Activity Knowledge-Driven Generative Foundation Model for Materials Science

arXiv:2606. 07712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in AI-driven crystal materials science has so far been carried by narrow architectures purpose-built for individual tasks -- graph neural networks for property prediction, diffusion and flow-matching models for crystal generation -- each excelling within its niche yet unable to act as a shared backbone across the full spectrum of materials problems.

By Zhan'ao Yao, Boxuan Zhang, Jingyuan Shu, Xiaoyu Wu, Rongyan Wang, Linjing Li, Dajun Zeng, Yudong Yao, Tingwei Chen, Youwei Wang, Xiaolin Zhao, Jiahui Shi, Jianjun Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Deep Generative Crystal Structure Prediction: A Benchmark Study and a Controlled Test of Prototype Dependence

The study benchmarks 12 deep generative crystal structure prediction models against the template-based TCSP 2.0 on 180 test structures, finding that template retrieval achieves the highest top‑1 success (68.3%). Most generative predictions overlap with template substitutions, and removing entire stoichiometric prototype families from training reduces accuracy by 50‑78%, indicating strong prototype dependence. Only a small subset of predictions remain after such removal, suggesting limited genuine de‑novo capability.

By Lai Wei, Rongzhi Dong, Ying Feng, Madeline Miklos, Jianjun Hu