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Universal interatomic potentials shine in finding crystal structures

Various machine learning models have been developed in recent years for the discovery of crystal structures. Matbench Discovery, a new benchmark, offers an efficient way to identify the most promising architectures.

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Fig. 1: An evaluation framework for ML discovery of crystal structures.

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Li, J. Universal interatomic potentials shine in finding crystal structures. Nat Mach Intell 7, 985–986 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-01061-3

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