Search Results for author: Michele Ceriotti

Found 27 papers, 8 papers with code

Physics-inspired Equivariant Descriptors of Non-bonded Interactions

no code implementations25 Aug 2023 Kevin K. Huguenin-Dumittan, Philip Loche, Ni Haoran, Michele Ceriotti

One essential ingredient in many machine learning (ML) based methods for atomistic modeling of materials and molecules is the use of locality.

Smooth, exact rotational symmetrization for deep learning on point clouds

no code implementations NeurIPS 2023 Sergey N. Pozdnyakov, Michele Ceriotti

Point clouds are versatile representations of 3D objects and have found widespread application in science and engineering.

Wigner kernels: body-ordered equivariant machine learning without a basis

no code implementations7 Mar 2023 Filippo Bigi, Sergey N. Pozdnyakov, Michele Ceriotti

Machine-learning models based on a point-cloud representation of a physical object are ubiquitous in scientific applications and particularly well-suited to the atomic-scale description of molecules and materials.

Formation Energy

Completeness of Atomic Structure Representations

no code implementations28 Feb 2023 Jigyasa Nigam, Sergey N. Pozdnyakov, Kevin K. Huguenin-Dumittan, Michele Ceriotti

In this paper, we address the challenge of obtaining a comprehensive and symmetric representation of point particle groups, such as atoms in a molecule, which is crucial in physics and theoretical chemistry.

Fast evaluation of spherical harmonics with sphericart

1 code implementation16 Feb 2023 Filippo Bigi, Guillaume Fraux, Nicholas J. Browning, Michele Ceriotti

Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from geology and atmospheric sciences to signal processing and computer graphics.

A data-driven interpretation of the stability of molecular crystals

no code implementations21 Sep 2022 Rose K. Cersonsky, Maria Pakhnova, Edgar A. Engel, Michele Ceriotti

Due to the subtle balance of intermolecular interactions that govern structure-property relations, predicting the stability of crystal structures formed from molecular building blocks is a highly non-trivial scientific problem.

A smooth basis for atomistic machine learning

no code implementations5 Sep 2022 Filippo Bigi, Kevin Huguenin-Dumittan, Michele Ceriotti, David E. Manolopoulos

Machine learning frameworks based on correlations of interatomic positions begin with a discretized description of the density of other atoms in the neighbourhood of each atom in the system.

Electronic-structure properties from atom-centered predictions of the electron density

1 code implementation28 Jun 2022 Andrea Grisafi, Alan M. Lewis, Mariana Rossi, Michele Ceriotti

The electron density of a molecule or material has recently received major attention as a target quantity of machine-learning models.

Computational Efficiency Total Energy

Predicting hot-electron free energies from ground-state data

no code implementations11 May 2022 Chiheb Ben Mahmoud, Federico Grasselli, Michele Ceriotti

Machine-learning potentials are usually trained on the ground-state, Born-Oppenheimer energy surface, which depends exclusively on the atomic positions and not on the simulation temperature.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Unified theory of atom-centered representations and message-passing machine-learning schemes

no code implementations3 Feb 2022 Jigyasa Nigam, Sergey Pozdnyakov, Guillaume Fraux, Michele Ceriotti

Data-driven schemes that associate molecular and crystal structures with their microscopic properties share the need for a concise, effective description of the arrangement of their atomic constituents.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Incompleteness of graph neural networks for points clouds in three dimensions

no code implementations18 Jan 2022 Sergey N. Pozdnyakov, Michele Ceriotti

We construct pairs of distinct point clouds whose associated graphs are, for any cutoff radius, equivalent based on a first-order Weisfeiler-Lehman test.

Equivariant representations for molecular Hamiltonians and N-center atomic-scale properties

no code implementations24 Sep 2021 Jigyasa Nigam, Michael Willatt, Michele Ceriotti

Symmetry considerations are at the core of the major frameworks used to provide an effective mathematical representation of atomic configurations that is then used in machine-learning models to predict the properties associated with each structure.

Optimal radial basis for density-based atomic representations

no code implementations18 May 2021 Alexander Goscinski, Félix Musil, Sergey Pozdnyakov, Michele Ceriotti

For each training dataset and number of basis functions, one can determine a unique basis that is optimal in this sense, and can be computed at no additional cost with respect to the primitive basis by approximating it with splines.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Physics-inspired structural representations for molecules and materials

no code implementations12 Jan 2021 Felix Musil, Andrea Grisafi, Albert P. Bartók, Christoph Ortner, Gábor Csányi, Michele Ceriotti

The first step in the construction of a regression model or a data-driven analysis, aiming to predict or elucidate the relationship between the atomic scale structure of matter and its properties, involves transforming the Cartesian coordinates of the atoms into a suitable representation.

Chemical Physics

Improving Sample and Feature Selection with Principal Covariates Regression

1 code implementation22 Dec 2020 Rose K. Cersonsky, Benjamin A. Helfrecht, Edgar A. Engel, Michele Ceriotti

Selecting the most relevant features and samples out of a large set of candidates is a task that occurs very often in the context of automated data analysis, where it can be used to improve the computational performance, and also often the transferability, of a model.

feature selection regression

Machine learning at the atomic-scale

no code implementations8 Dec 2020 Félix Musil, Michele Ceriotti

Statistical learning algorithms are finding more and more applications in science and technology.

Chemical Physics Computational Physics

Uncertainty estimation for molecular dynamics and sampling

1 code implementation10 Nov 2020 Giulio Imbalzano, Yongbin Zhuang, Venkat Kapil, Kevin Rossi, Edgar A. Engel, Federico Grasselli, Michele Ceriotti

Given the interpolative nature of these models, the reliability of predictions depends on the position in phase space, and it is crucial to obtain an estimate of the error that derives from the finite number of reference structures included during the training of the model.

Active Learning BIG-bench Machine Learning +1

The role of feature space in atomistic learning

2 code implementations6 Sep 2020 Alexander Goscinski, Guillaume Fraux, Giulio Imbalzano, Michele Ceriotti

In this work we introduce a framework to compare different sets of descriptors, and different ways of transforming them by means of metrics and kernels, in terms of the structure of the feature space that they induce.

Multi-scale approach for the prediction of atomic scale properties

no code implementations27 Aug 2020 Andrea Grisafi, Jigyasa Nigam, Michele Ceriotti

Electronic nearsightedness is one of the fundamental principles governing the behavior of condensed matter and supporting its description in terms of local entities such as chemical bonds.

Recursive evaluation and iterative contraction of $N$-body equivariant features

no code implementations7 Jul 2020 Jigyasa Nigam, Sergey Pozdnyakov, Michele Ceriotti

While it has become clear that low-order density correlations do not provide a complete representation of an atomic environment, the exponential increase in the number of possible $N$-body invariants makes it difficult to design a concise and effective representation.

Chemical Physics

Learning the electronic density of states in condensed matter

no code implementations21 Jun 2020 Chiheb Ben Mahmoud, Andrea Anelli, Gábor Csányi, Michele Ceriotti

The electronic density of states (DOS) quantifies the distribution of the energy levels that can be occupied by electrons in a quasiparticle picture, and is central to modern electronic structure theory.

Predicting molecular dipole moments by combining atomic partial charges and atomic dipoles

1 code implementation27 Mar 2020 Max Veit, David M. Wilkins, Yang Yang, Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Michele Ceriotti

In this work, we choose to represent this quantity with a physically inspired ML model that captures two distinct physical effects: local atomic polarization is captured within the symmetry-adapted Gaussian process regression (SA-GPR) framework, which assigns a (vector) dipole moment to each atom, while movement of charge across the entire molecule is captured by assigning a partial (scalar) charge to each atom.

GPR Molecular Property Prediction

Structure-Property Maps with Kernel Principal Covariates Regression

no code implementations12 Feb 2020 Benjamin A. Helfrecht, Rose K. Cersonsky, Guillaume Fraux, Michele Ceriotti

Data analyses based on linear methods constitute the simplest, most robust, and transparent approaches to the automatic processing of large amounts of data for building supervised or unsupervised machine learning models.

regression

Ab initio thermodynamics of liquid and solid water

2 code implementations21 Nov 2018 Bingqing Cheng, Edgar A. Engel, Jörg Behler, Christoph Dellago, Michele Ceriotti

Thermodynamic properties of liquid water as well as hexagonal (Ih) and cubic (Ic) ice are predicted based on density functional theory at the hybrid-functional level, rigorously taking into account quantum nuclear motion, anharmonic fluctuations and proton disorder.

Materials Science Statistical Mechanics Chemical Physics

Comparing molecules and solids across structural and alchemical space

1 code implementation28 Dec 2015 Sandip De, Albert P. Bartók, Gábor Csányi, Michele Ceriotti

For instance, a structural similarity metric is crucial for classifying structures, searching chemical space for better compounds and materials, and driving the next generation of machine-learning techniques for predicting the stability and properties of molecules and materials.

Materials Science Chemical Physics

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