Generative artificial intelligence for computational chemistry: a roadmap to predicting emergent phenomena

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Main Authors: Tiwary, Pratyush, Herron, Lukas, John, Richard, Lee, Suemin, Sanwal, Disha, Wang, Ruiyu
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Published: 2024
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author Tiwary, Pratyush
Herron, Lukas
John, Richard
Lee, Suemin
Sanwal, Disha
Wang, Ruiyu
author_facet Tiwary, Pratyush
Herron, Lukas
John, Richard
Lee, Suemin
Sanwal, Disha
Wang, Ruiyu
contents The recent surge in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced exciting possibilities for computational chemistry. Generative AI methods have made significant progress in sampling molecular structures across chemical species, developing force fields, and speeding up simulations. This Perspective offers a structured overview, beginning with the fundamental theoretical concepts in both Generative AI and computational chemistry. It then covers widely used Generative AI methods, including autoencoders, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, flow models and language models, and highlights their selected applications in diverse areas including force field development, and protein/RNA structure prediction. A key focus is on the challenges these methods face before they become truly predictive, particularly in predicting emergent chemical phenomena. We believe that the ultimate goal of a simulation method or theory is to predict phenomena not seen before, and that Generative AI should be subject to these same standards before it is deemed useful for chemistry. We suggest that to overcome these challenges, future AI models need to integrate core chemical principles, especially from statistical mechanics.
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spellingShingle Generative artificial intelligence for computational chemistry: a roadmap to predicting emergent phenomena
Tiwary, Pratyush
Herron, Lukas
John, Richard
Lee, Suemin
Sanwal, Disha
Wang, Ruiyu
Statistical Mechanics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
The recent surge in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced exciting possibilities for computational chemistry. Generative AI methods have made significant progress in sampling molecular structures across chemical species, developing force fields, and speeding up simulations. This Perspective offers a structured overview, beginning with the fundamental theoretical concepts in both Generative AI and computational chemistry. It then covers widely used Generative AI methods, including autoencoders, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, flow models and language models, and highlights their selected applications in diverse areas including force field development, and protein/RNA structure prediction. A key focus is on the challenges these methods face before they become truly predictive, particularly in predicting emergent chemical phenomena. We believe that the ultimate goal of a simulation method or theory is to predict phenomena not seen before, and that Generative AI should be subject to these same standards before it is deemed useful for chemistry. We suggest that to overcome these challenges, future AI models need to integrate core chemical principles, especially from statistical mechanics.
title Generative artificial intelligence for computational chemistry: a roadmap to predicting emergent phenomena
topic Statistical Mechanics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03118