Towards universal property prediction in Cartesian space: TACE is all you need

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14961v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:51:07 GMT
• Title: Towards universal property prediction in Cartesian space: TACE is all you need
• Authors: Zemin Xu, Wenbo Xie, Daiqian Xie, P. Hu,
• Abstract summary: Atomic Cluster Expansion and Moment Potential is a framework for the systematic prediction of arbitrary structure-determined tensorial properties.<n>We demonstrate that TACE attains accuracy, stability, and efficiency on par with or surpassing leading equivariant frameworks.<n>This work lays the foundation for a new generation of universal atomistic machine learning models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Machine learning has revolutionized atomistic simulations and materials science, yet current approaches often depend on spherical-harmonic representations. Here we introduce the Tensor Atomic Cluster Expansion and Tensor Moment Potential, the first unified framework formulated entirely in Cartesian space for the systematic prediction of arbitrary structure-determined tensorial properties. TACE achieves this by decomposing atomic environments into a complete hierarchy of (irreducible) Cartesian tensors, ensuring symmetry-consistent representations that naturally encode invariance and equivariance constraints. Beyond geometry, TACE incorporates universal embeddings that flexibly integrate diverse attributes including basis sets, charges, magnetic moments and field perturbations. This allows explicit control over external invariants and equivariants in the prediction process. Long-range interactions are also accurately described through the Latent Ewald Summation module within the short-range approximation, providing a rigorous yet computationally efficient treatment of electrostatic interactions. We demonstrate that TACE attains accuracy, stability, and efficiency on par with or surpassing leading equivariant frameworks across finite molecules and extended materials, including in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks, spectra, hessians, external-field response, charged systems, magnetic systems, multi-fidelity training, and heterogeneous catalytic systems. Crucially, TACE bridges scalar and tensorial modeling and establishes a Cartesian-space paradigm that unifies and extends beyond the design space of spherical-harmonic-based methods. This work lays the foundation for a new generation of universal atomistic machine learning models capable of systematically capturing the rich interplay of geometry, fields and material properties within a single coherent framework.

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