Crystal-GFN: sampling crystals with desirable properties and constraints
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04925v2
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:24:44 GMT
- Title: Crystal-GFN: sampling crystals with desirable properties and constraints
- Authors: Mila AI4Science and Alex Hernandez-Garcia and Alexandre Duval and
Alexandra Volokhova and Yoshua Bengio and Divya Sharma and Pierre Luc Carrier
and Yasmine Benabed and Micha{\l} Koziarski and Victor Schmidt
- Abstract summary: We introduce Crystal-GFN, a generative model of crystal structures that sequentially samples structural properties of crystalline materials.
In this paper, we use as objective the formation energy per atom of a crystal structure predicted by a new proxy machine learning model trained on MatBench.
The results demonstrate that Crystal-GFN is able to sample highly diverse crystals with low (median -3.1 eV/atom) predicted formation energy.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: Accelerating material discovery holds the potential to greatly help mitigate
the climate crisis. Discovering new solid-state materials such as
electrocatalysts, super-ionic conductors or photovoltaic materials can have a
crucial impact, for instance, in improving the efficiency of renewable energy
production and storage. In this paper, we introduce Crystal-GFN, a generative
model of crystal structures that sequentially samples structural properties of
crystalline materials, namely the space group, composition and lattice
parameters. This domain-inspired approach enables the flexible incorporation of
physical and structural hard constraints, as well as the use of any available
predictive model of a desired physicochemical property as an objective
function. To design stable materials, one must target the candidates with the
lowest formation energy. Here, we use as objective the formation energy per
atom of a crystal structure predicted by a new proxy machine learning model
trained on MatBench. The results demonstrate that Crystal-GFN is able to sample
highly diverse crystals with low (median -3.1 eV/atom) predicted formation
energy.
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