提出AMGenC方法,生成电荷平衡的无序材料,提升设计效率。
AMGenC: Generating Charge Balanced Amorphous Materials
- 通过元素噪声和分步投影机制,从电荷平衡出发生成材料
- 在两个数据集上验证,生成材料均保持电荷平衡且性能不降
- 适合需要精确电荷控制的无序材料设计者
无序材料在能源存储、热管理及先进材料领域具有巨大潜力。与仅含数个至数百原子的晶态材料不同,无序材料需包含数百至数千原子的大尺度模拟单元。为加速具有特定性能的无序材料设计并探索其广阔设计空间,生成式逆向设计已成为有前景的方法:利用条件于目标性能的概率生成模型直接输出符合要求的材料,相比传统试错法更高效。然而,由于概率生成模型固有的随机性,若元素分配无约束,生成材料中大量会出现电荷不平衡问题,现有方法无法有效解决。本文提出AMGenC,一种新的无序材料生成式逆向设计方法,可在几乎不增加计算开销的前提下,保证生成材料的电荷平衡,且不牺牲逆向设计精度。AMGenC通过引入以电荷平衡为中心的元素噪声作为生成起点,并结合每步软投影与最终离散投影,持续引导元素分配趋向精确电荷平衡。我们在两个无序材料数据集上进行了广泛实验,结果表明AMGenC成功实现了设计目标。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Amorphous (disordered) materials are solids that have shown great potential in various domains, including energy storage, thermal management, and advanced materials. Unlike crystalline materials that can be described by unit cells containing a few to hundreds of atoms, amorphous materials require larger simulation cells with at least hundreds to thousands of atoms. To advance the design of amorphous materials with desired properties and facilitate the exploration of their vast design space, generative inverse design has emerged as a promising approach. It aims to directly output materials with properties closely aligned with the desired ones using probabilistic generative models conditioned on desired properties, which can be more resource efficient than the traditional trial-and-error approach. However, due to the inherent stochasticity of probabilistic generative models, when element assignments are unconstrained, a large portion of generated materials may be charge unbalanced, and no existing methods can effectively mitigate this limitation. In this work, we propose AMGenC, a new generative inverse design method for amorphous materials that can guarantee the generation of charge balanced samples, with minimal additional computational overhead and without sacrificing inverse design accuracy. AMGenC achieves this through an element noise that gives the generation process a starting point centered around charge balance, and the combination of a per-step soft projection and a final discrete projection for steering the elements toward exact charge balance throughout the generation. We perform extensive experiments on two amorphous materials datasets. Experimental results provide evidence that AMGenC achieves its design goal.
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