Evaluation of the MACE Force Field Architecture: from Medicinal Chemistry to Materials Science

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14247v2
• Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 12:11:30 GMT
• Title: Evaluation of the MACE Force Field Architecture: from Medicinal Chemistry to Materials Science
• Authors: David Peter Kovacs, Ilyes Batatia, Eszter Sara Arany, Gabor Csanyi
• Abstract summary: We show that MACE generally outperforms alternatives for a wide range of systems. We demonstrate the capabilities of the model on tasks ranging from constrained geometry optimisation to molecular dynamics simulations. We show that MACE is very data efficient, and can reproduce experimental molecular vibrational spectra when trained on as few as 50 randomly selected reference configurations.
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• Abstract: The MACE architecture represents the state of the art in the field of machine learning force fields for a variety of in-domain, extrapolation and low-data regime tasks. In this paper, we further evaluate MACE by fitting models for published benchmark datasets. We show that MACE generally outperforms alternatives for a wide range of systems from amorphous carbon, universal materials modelling, and general small molecule organic chemistry to large molecules and liquid water. We demonstrate the capabilities of the model on tasks ranging from constrained geometry optimisation to molecular dynamics simulations and find excellent performance across all tested domains. We show that MACE is very data efficient, and can reproduce experimental molecular vibrational spectra when trained on as few as 50 randomly selected reference configurations. We further demonstrate that the strictly local atom-centered model is sufficient for such tasks even in the case of large molecules and weakly interacting molecular assemblies.

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