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
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
arXiv:2609.39773v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Crystal structure governs material properties, making crystal structure prediction (CSP) a fundamental problem in materials science. Generative models...
By Thomas Egg, Harry Winston Sullivan, Maya M. Martirossyan, Philipp H\"ollmer, Cheng Zeng, Adrian Roitberg, Mingjie Liu, Richard Hennig, Sapna Sarupria, Ellad B. Tadmor, Stefano Martiniani
EP-Flow introduces a new framework for predicting disordered crystal structures without requiring site-level disorder annotations. It uses an Occupancy Distribution Matrix (ODM) to represent continuous site-by-species occupancies and enforces constraints through a transportation polytope. The method jointly generates occupancies, fractional coordinates, and lattice parameters, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on formula‑conditioned disordered CSP benchmarks and recovering chemically meaningful local disorder patterns.
By Qiuliang Liu, Liming Wu, Qi Li, Zhonglong Peng, Chang Chen, Xiaolong Chen, Wenbing Huang, Shifeng Jin
arXiv:2604. 13354v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The discovery of inorganic crystal structures with targeted properties is a significant challenge in materials science.
By Auguste de Lambilly, Vladimir Baturin, David Portehault, Guillaume Lambard, Nataliya Sokolovska, Florence d'Alch\'e-Buc, Jean-Claude Crivello
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