arXiv AI By Tian Luo, Ruge Zhang, Haozhi Han, Yifrng Chen, Yunquan Zhang, Yunxin Liu, Ting Cao, Kun Li

AtomWorld-Mem: Memory-Restored World States for Long-Horizon Atomistic Evolution

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AtomWorld-Mem is a memory‑restored atomistic world model that reconstructs hidden world states from incomplete crystal snapshots, enabling more accurate long‑horizon atomistic evolution. It uses spatial encoders to capture multi‑scale keyframes and integrates short‑term event memory with long‑term structural memory to predict future states. The restored state guides vacancy‑mediated events in kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, improving progress under fixed event budgets while preserving fidelity across energetic, structural, and transport observables, and it transfers zero‑shot across unseen alloy‑temperature scenarios.

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