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Publications (10)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Predicting emergence of crystals from amorphous matter with deep learning

Muratahan Aykol, Amil Merchant, Simon Batzner +2

Crystallization of the amorphous phases into metastable crystals plays a fundamental role in the formation of new matter, from geological to biological processes in nature to synth…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Computational search for materials having a giant anomalous Hall effect in the pyrochlore and spinel crystal structures

Sean Sullivan, Seungjun Lee, Nathan J. Szymanski +4

Ferromagnetic pyrochlore and spinel materials with topological flat bands are of interest for their potential to exhibit a giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In this work, we prese…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Accurate Prediction of Experimental Band Gaps from Large Language Model-Based Data Extraction

Samuel J. Yang, Shutong Li, Subhashini Venugopalan +5

Machine learning is transforming materials discovery by providing rapid predictions of material properties, which enables large-scale screening for target materials. However, such…

cs.CL2025

CURIE: Evaluating LLMs On Multitask Scientific Long Context Understanding and Reasoning

Hao Cui, Zahra Shamsi, Gowoon Cheon +31

Scientific problem-solving involves synthesizing information while applying expert knowledge. We introduce CURIE, a scientific long-Context Understanding,Reasoning and Information…

cs.LG2021

Learn2Hop: Learned Optimization on Rough Landscapes

Amil Merchant, Luke Metz, Sam Schoenholz +1

Optimization of non-convex loss surfaces containing many local minima remains a critical problem in a variety of domains, including operations research, informatics, and material d…

cs.CL2020

What Happens To BERT Embeddings During Fine-tuning?

Amil Merchant, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ellie Pavlick +1

While there has been much recent work studying how linguistic information is encoded in pre-trained sentence representations, comparatively little is understood about how these mod…

cs.CV2020

Does Data Augmentation Benefit from Split BatchNorms

Amil Merchant, Barret Zoph, Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Data augmentation has emerged as a powerful technique for improving the performance of deep neural networks and led to state-of-the-art results in computer vision. However, state-o…

cs.LG2024

Self-Refining Diffusion Samplers: Enabling Parallelization via Parareal Iterations

Nikil Roashan Selvam, Amil Merchant, Stefano Ermon

In diffusion models, samples are generated through an iterative refinement process, requiring hundreds of sequential model evaluations. Several recent methods have introduced appro…

cs.LG2024

Scalable Diffusion for Materials Generation

Sherry Yang, KwangHwan Cho, Amil Merchant +4

Generative models trained on internet-scale data are capable of generating novel and realistic texts, images, and videos. A natural next question is whether these models can advanc…

cs.LG2022

VeLO: Training Versatile Learned Optimizers by Scaling Up

Luke Metz, James Harrison, C. Daniel Freeman +8

While deep learning models have replaced hand-designed features across many domains, these models are still trained with hand-designed optimizers. In this work, we leverage the sam…