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XRDiff: Crystal Structure Prediction from Powder X-Ray Diffraction Data Using Diffusion Models

arXiv:2606. 14003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Determining the crystal structure of a material from its powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) pattern is a central challenge in materials science.

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Aug 10

ED-CSP: Crystal Structure Prediction from Electron Diffraction

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 10

MatBind: A Shared Embedding Space for Multimodal Materials Characterization

arXiv:2607. 08470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully characterizing a crystalline material requires integrating heterogeneous data sources -- atomic structures, diffraction patterns, electronic density of states, and natural language -- each of which captures a different facet of the same physical object.

By Le Yang (Institute for Advanced Simulations), Anoop K. Chandran (J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich), Jona \"Ostreicher (Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Evgenii Sovetkin (J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich), Adrian Mirza (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f\"ur Materialien und Energie, Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena), Sebastien Bompas (Institute for Advanced Simulations), Bashir Kazimi (Institute for Advanced Simulations), Pascal Friederich (Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Stefan Kesselheim (J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum J\"ulich, 1. Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne), Kevin Maik Jablonka (Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena, Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Stefan Sandfeld (Institute for Advanced Simulations, Faculty 5 - Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University)

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Jul 7

NextCrystal: a Symmetry-Driven Generative Framework for Crystal Structure Prediction

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

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Jul 8

AtomBench: A Benchmarking Framework for Generative Crystal Reconstruction Models in Conventional Superconductors

arXiv:2510. 16165v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key question in benchmarking generative crystal reconstruction models is how the amount and type of crystallographic information provided to a generative model affects its ability to reconstruct atomic structures.

By Charles Rhys Campbell, Aldo H. Romero, Kamal Choudhary

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Jul 28

AutoMat: Enabling Automated Crystal Structure Reconstruction from Microscopy via Agentic Tool Use

arXiv:2505. 12650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reconstructing atomistic crystal structures from a single noisy STEM projection is an ill-posed inverse problem: multiple lattices can explain similar contrast, and purely feed-forward models cannot verify physical validity.

By Yaotian Yang, Yiwen Tang, Yizhe Chen, Xiao Chen, Jiangjie Qiu, Hao Xiong, Haoyu Yin, Zhiyao Luo, Yifei Zhang, Sijia Tao, Wentao Li, Qinghua Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Bin Zhao, Xiaonan Wang, Fei Wei

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2d ago

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

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Aug 10

DynaCrys: Crystal Generation with Dynamic Space-Group Diffusion

arXiv:2608. 07401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The search for new crystalline materials spans an enormous compositional and structural space.

By Zhuotao Jin, Xiaoyun Wang, Nicholas Brawand, Roman Zubatyuk, Atul Thakur, Eric Qu, Boris Kozinsky, Justin Smith

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Jul 31

APO: Unsupervised Atomic Policy Optimization for 3D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems

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

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5d ago

Symmetry-Breaking De Novo Crystal Generation via Markovian Jump Diffusion

arXiv:2608. 13457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating crystals has recently attracted significant interest due to their broad applications in materials science.

By Van Khoa Nguyen, Alexandros Kalousis

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Jul 7

Interpretable Nanoporous Materials Design with Symmetry-Aware Networks

arXiv:2509. 15908v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Nanoporous materials hold promise for diverse sustainable applications, yet their vast chemical space poses challenges for efficient design.

By Zhenhao Zhou, Salman Bin Kashif, Jin-Hu Dou, Chris Wolverton, Kaihang Shi, Tao Deng, Zhenpeng Yao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

FastCSP: Accelerated Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction with Universal Model for Atoms

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

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Jul 29

DDSNet: Dual-domain Symmetry-aware Network for PCSEL Property Prediction

arXiv:2607. 24785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient exploration of the photonic crystal (PhC) lattice design space is essential for developing photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers.

By Cen Chen, Haitao Huang, Jiazhi Mao, Feifan Xu, Zhe Zhuang, Yuxiang Ren

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