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Main Authors: Yuan, Samuel, Dordevic, S. V.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00198
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author Yuan, Samuel
Dordevic, S. V.
author_facet Yuan, Samuel
Dordevic, S. V.
contents Effective computational search holds great potential for aiding the discovery of High-Temperature Superconductors (HTSs), especially given the lack of systematic methods for their discovery. Recent progress has been made in this area with machine learning, especially with deep generative models, which have been able to outperform traditional manual searches at predicting new superconductors within existing superconductor families but have yet to be able to generate completely new families of superconductors. We address this limitation by implementing conditioning -- a method to control the generation process -- for our generative model and develop SuperDiff, a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) with Iterative Latent Variable Refinement (ILVR) conditioning for HTS discovery -- the first deep generative model for superconductor discovery with conditioning on reference compounds. With SuperDiff, by being able to control the generation process, we were able to computationally generate completely new families of hypothetical superconductors for the very first time. Given that SuperDiff also has relatively fast training and inference times, it has the potential to be a very powerful tool for accelerating the discovery of new superconductors and enhancing our understanding of them.
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spellingShingle Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical New Families of Superconductors
Yuan, Samuel
Dordevic, S. V.
Superconductivity
Effective computational search holds great potential for aiding the discovery of High-Temperature Superconductors (HTSs), especially given the lack of systematic methods for their discovery. Recent progress has been made in this area with machine learning, especially with deep generative models, which have been able to outperform traditional manual searches at predicting new superconductors within existing superconductor families but have yet to be able to generate completely new families of superconductors. We address this limitation by implementing conditioning -- a method to control the generation process -- for our generative model and develop SuperDiff, a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) with Iterative Latent Variable Refinement (ILVR) conditioning for HTS discovery -- the first deep generative model for superconductor discovery with conditioning on reference compounds. With SuperDiff, by being able to control the generation process, we were able to computationally generate completely new families of hypothetical superconductors for the very first time. Given that SuperDiff also has relatively fast training and inference times, it has the potential to be a very powerful tool for accelerating the discovery of new superconductors and enhancing our understanding of them.
title Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical New Families of Superconductors
topic Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00198