A generative material transformer using Wyckoff representation

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Autori principali: De Breuck, Pierre-Paul, Piracha, Hashim A., Rignanese, Gian-Marco, Marques, Miguel A. L.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author De Breuck, Pierre-Paul
Piracha, Hashim A.
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Marques, Miguel A. L.
author_facet De Breuck, Pierre-Paul
Piracha, Hashim A.
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Marques, Miguel A. L.
contents Materials play a critical role in various technological applications. Identifying and enumerating stable compounds, those near the convex hull, is therefore essential. Despite recent progress, generative models either have a relatively low rate of stable compounds, are computationally expensive, or lack symmetry. In this work we present Matra-Genoa, an autoregressive transformer model built on invertible tokenized representations of symmetrized crystals, including free coordinates. This approach enables sampling from a hybrid action space. The model is trained across the periodic table and space groups and can be conditioned on specific properties. We demonstrate its ability to generate stable, novel, and unique crystal structures by conditioning on the distance to the convex hull. Resulting structures are 8 times more likely to be stable than baselines using PyXtal with charge compensation, while maintaining high computational efficiency. We also release a dataset of 3 million unique crystals generated by our method, including 4,000 compounds verified by density-functional theory to be within 0.001 eV/atom of the convex hull.
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spellingShingle A generative material transformer using Wyckoff representation
De Breuck, Pierre-Paul
Piracha, Hashim A.
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Marques, Miguel A. L.
Materials Science
Materials play a critical role in various technological applications. Identifying and enumerating stable compounds, those near the convex hull, is therefore essential. Despite recent progress, generative models either have a relatively low rate of stable compounds, are computationally expensive, or lack symmetry. In this work we present Matra-Genoa, an autoregressive transformer model built on invertible tokenized representations of symmetrized crystals, including free coordinates. This approach enables sampling from a hybrid action space. The model is trained across the periodic table and space groups and can be conditioned on specific properties. We demonstrate its ability to generate stable, novel, and unique crystal structures by conditioning on the distance to the convex hull. Resulting structures are 8 times more likely to be stable than baselines using PyXtal with charge compensation, while maintaining high computational efficiency. We also release a dataset of 3 million unique crystals generated by our method, including 4,000 compounds verified by density-functional theory to be within 0.001 eV/atom of the convex hull.
title A generative material transformer using Wyckoff representation
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16051