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| Natura: | Preprint |
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2026
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| Accesso online: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05622 |
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Sommario:
- Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are essential for photonic technologies, yet discovering optimal NLO molecules requires balancing multiple competing objectives across vast chemical spaces. Previous work showed that Multi-Objective MAP-Elites (MOME) with grid-based archives discovers diverse, high-quality molecules for electro-optic applications. However, uniform grid partitioning wastes archive capacity on chemically infeasible regions while undersampling high-density areas. We apply MOME with Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) archives whose cells are defined by learned embeddings from ChemBERTa-2 Multi-Task Regression reduced via UMAP, capturing chemical similarity beyond simple structural features. We investigate a four-objective NLO molecular design problem: maximizing the $β/ γ$ hyperpolarizability ratio, constraining HOMO-LUMO gap and linear polarizability to target ranges, and minimizing energy per atom. Our results demonstrate that embedding-based measures in CVT archives yield significantly higher median global hypervolume and multi-objective quality diversity scores, while filling nearly all native archive niches.