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ICML Conference 2024 Conference Paper

A Space Group Symmetry Informed Network for O(3) Equivariant Crystal Tensor Prediction

  • Keqiang Yan
  • Alexandra Saxton
  • Xiaofeng Qian
  • Xiaoning Qian
  • Shuiwang Ji

We consider the prediction of general tensor properties of crystalline materials, including dielectric, piezoelectric, and elastic tensors. A key challenge here is how to make the predictions satisfy the unique tensor equivariance to both O(3) and crystal space groups. To this end, we propose a General Materials Tensor Network (GMTNet), which is carefully designed to satisfy the required symmetries. To evaluate our method, we curate a dataset and establish evaluation metrics that are tailored to the intricacies of crystal tensor predictions. Experimental results show that our GMTNet not only achieves promising performance on crystal tensors of various orders but also generates predictions fully consistent with the intrinsic crystal symmetries. Our code is publicly available as part of the AIRS library (https: //github. com/divelab/AIRS).

ICLR Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Complete and Efficient Graph Transformers for Crystal Material Property Prediction

  • Keqiang Yan
  • Cong Fu 0003
  • Xiaofeng Qian
  • Xiaoning Qian
  • Shuiwang Ji

Crystal structures are characterized by atomic bases within a primitive unit cell that repeats along a regular lattice throughout 3D space. The periodic and infinite nature of crystals poses unique challenges for geometric graph representation learning. Specifically, constructing graphs that effectively capture the complete geometric information of crystals and handle chiral crystals remains an unsolved and challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach that utilizes the periodic patterns of unit cells to establish the lattice-based representation for each atom, enabling efficient and expressive graph representations of crystals. Furthermore, we propose ComFormer, a SE(3) transformer designed specifically for crystalline materials. ComFormer includes two variants; namely, iComFormer that employs invariant geometric descriptors of Euclidean distances and angles, and eComFormer that utilizes equivariant vector representations. Experimental results demonstrate the state-of-the-art predictive accuracy of ComFormer variants on various tasks across three widely-used crystal benchmarks. Our code is publicly available as part of the AIRS library (https://github.com/divelab/AIRS).

NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Invariant Tokenization of Crystalline Materials for Language Model Enabled Generation

  • Keqiang Yan
  • Xiner Li
  • Hongyi Ling
  • Kenna Ashen
  • Carl Edwards
  • Raymundo Arróyave
  • Marinka Zitnik
  • Heng Ji

We consider the problem of crystal materials generation using language models (LMs). A key step is to convert 3D crystal structures into 1D sequences to be processed by LMs. Prior studies used the crystallographic information framework (CIF) file stream, which fails to ensure SE(3) and periodic invariance and may not lead to unique sequence representations for a given crystal structure. Here, we propose a novel method, known as Mat2Seq, to tackle this challenge. Mat2Seq converts 3D crystal structures into 1D sequences and ensures that different mathematical descriptions of the same crystal are represented in a single unique sequence, thereby provably achieving SE(3) and periodic invariance. Experimental results show that, with language models, Mat2Seq achieves promising performance in crystal structure generation as compared with prior methods.

ICML Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Efficient Approximations of Complete Interatomic Potentials for Crystal Property Prediction

  • Yuchao Lin
  • Keqiang Yan
  • Youzhi Luo
  • Yi Liu 0059
  • Xiaoning Qian
  • Shuiwang Ji

We study property prediction for crystal materials. A crystal structure consists of a minimal unit cell that is repeated infinitely in 3D space. How to accurately represent such repetitive structures in machine learning models remains unresolved. Current methods construct graphs by establishing edges only between nearby nodes, thereby failing to faithfully capture infinite repeating patterns and distant interatomic interactions. In this work, we propose several innovations to overcome these limitations. First, we propose to model physics-principled interatomic potentials directly instead of only using distances as in many existing methods. These potentials include the Coulomb potential, London dispersion potential, and Pauli repulsion potential. Second, we model the complete set of potentials among all atoms, instead of only between nearby atoms as in existing methods. This is enabled by our approximations of infinite potential summations with provable error bounds. We further develop efficient algorithms to compute the approximations. Finally, we propose to incorporate our computations of complete interatomic potentials into message passing neural networks for representation learning. We perform experiments on the JARVIS and Materials Project benchmarks for evaluation. Results show that the use of interatomic potentials and complete interatomic potentials leads to consistent performance improvements with reasonable computational costs. Our code is publicly available as part of the AIRS library (https: //github. com/divelab/AIRS).

NeurIPS Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Periodic Graph Transformers for Crystal Material Property Prediction

  • Keqiang Yan
  • Yi Liu
  • Yuchao Lin
  • Shuiwang Ji

We consider representation learning on periodic graphs encoding crystal materials. Different from regular graphs, periodic graphs consist of a minimum unit cell repeating itself on a regular lattice in 3D space. How to effectively encode these periodic structures poses unique challenges not present in regular graph representation learning. In addition to being E(3) invariant, periodic graph representations need to be periodic invariant. That is, the learned representations should be invariant to shifts of cell boundaries as they are artificially imposed. Furthermore, the periodic repeating patterns need to be captured explicitly as lattices of different sizes and orientations may correspond to different materials. In this work, we propose a transformer architecture, known as Matformer, for periodic graph representation learning. Our Matformer is designed to be invariant to periodicity and can capture repeating patterns explicitly. In particular, Matformer encodes periodic patterns by efficient use of geometric distances between the same atoms in neighboring cells. Experimental results on multiple common benchmark datasets show that our Matformer outperforms baseline methods consistently. In addition, our results demonstrate the importance of periodic invariance and explicit repeating pattern encoding for crystal representation learning. Our code is publicly available at https: //github. com/YKQ98/Matformer.

JMLR Journal 2021 Journal Article

DIG: A Turnkey Library for Diving into Graph Deep Learning Research

  • Meng Liu
  • Youzhi Luo
  • Limei Wang
  • Yaochen Xie
  • Hao Yuan
  • Shurui Gui
  • Haiyang Yu
  • Zhao Xu

Although there exist several libraries for deep learning on graphs, they are aiming at implementing basic operations for graph deep learning. In the research community, implementing and benchmarking various advanced tasks are still painful and time-consuming with existing libraries. To facilitate graph deep learning research, we introduce DIG: Dive into Graphs, a turnkey library that provides a unified testbed for higher level, research-oriented graph deep learning tasks. Currently, we consider graph generation, self-supervised learning on graphs, explainability of graph neural networks, and deep learning on 3D graphs. For each direction, we provide unified implementations of data interfaces, common algorithms, and evaluation metrics. Altogether, DIG is an extensible, open-source, and turnkey library for researchers to develop new methods and effortlessly compare with common baselines using widely used datasets and evaluation metrics. Source code is available at https://github.com/divelab/DIG. [abs] [ pdf ][ bib ] [ code ] &copy JMLR 2021. ( edit, beta )

ICML Conference 2021 Conference Paper

GraphDF: A Discrete Flow Model for Molecular Graph Generation

  • Youzhi Luo
  • Keqiang Yan
  • Shuiwang Ji

We consider the problem of molecular graph generation using deep models. While graphs are discrete, most existing methods use continuous latent variables, resulting in inaccurate modeling of discrete graph structures. In this work, we propose GraphDF, a novel discrete latent variable model for molecular graph generation based on normalizing flow methods. GraphDF uses invertible modulo shift transforms to map discrete latent variables to graph nodes and edges. We show that the use of discrete latent variables reduces computational costs and eliminates the negative effect of dequantization. Comprehensive experimental results show that GraphDF outperforms prior methods on random generation, property optimization, and constrained optimization tasks.

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