Materials design using chemical heuristics, workflows, and machine learning
- Software implementations such as ChemEnv and LobsterEnv identify local atomic environments based on geometrical characteristics and quantum-chemical bonding analysis (here using Crystal Orbital Hamilton Populations as computed with LOBSTER). Fully automated workflows and analysis tools now enable large-scale quantum-chemical bonding analysis. The first part of the lecture will demonstrate how these tools help develop new machine-learning models and intuitive understandings of material properties.
New universal machine-learned interatomic potentials, such as MACE-MP-0, have been developed. The second part of the lecture will showcase how these potentials, combined with DFT, can accelerate research. It will focus on the interplay between DFT and machine-learned interatomic potentials, presenting automated workflows for training, fine-tuning, and benchmarking these potentials, implemented in our software autoplex. Additionally, it will show how to train new interatomic potentials fromSoftware implementations such as ChemEnv and LobsterEnv identify local atomic environments based on geometrical characteristics and quantum-chemical bonding analysis (here using Crystal Orbital Hamilton Populations as computed with LOBSTER). Fully automated workflows and analysis tools now enable large-scale quantum-chemical bonding analysis. The first part of the lecture will demonstrate how these tools help develop new machine-learning models and intuitive understandings of material properties.
New universal machine-learned interatomic potentials, such as MACE-MP-0, have been developed. The second part of the lecture will showcase how these potentials, combined with DFT, can accelerate research. It will focus on the interplay between DFT and machine-learned interatomic potentials, presenting automated workflows for training, fine-tuning, and benchmarking these potentials, implemented in our software autoplex. Additionally, it will show how to train new interatomic potentials from scratch by exploring potential energy surfaces, with the potential to enhance current universal machine-learned potentials.
The lecture will also discuss the trend toward automation in computational materials science and our recent contributions…

