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20182026
most citedLess is more: sampling chemical space with active learning

872 citations · 1.1k across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Bridging Molecular Scales with Implicit Score Matching for Bottom-Up Coarse Graining

Patrick G. Sahrmann, Nicholas Lubbers, Benjamin T. Nebgen +4

Molecular dynamics simulations provide a computational microscope for atomic scale processes but remain restricted to relatively small spatial and temporal scales. Coarse-grained m…

physics.chem-ph2026★ 1 cited

Learning Thermal Response Forces: A Method for Extending the Thermodynamic Transferability of Coarse-Grained Models via Machine-Learning

Patrick G. Sahrmann, Benjamin T. Nebgen, Kipton Barros +1

Machine-learned (ML) coarse-grained (CG) models are a promising tool for significantly enhancing the efficiency of molecular simulations by systematically removing degrees of freed…

physics.chem-ph2025

Reactive Chemistry at Unrestricted Coupled Cluster Level: High-throughput Calculations for Training Machine Learning Potentials

Alice E. A. Allen, Rui Li, Sakib Matin +8

Accurately modeling chemical reactions at the atomistic level requires high-level electronic structure theory due to the presence of unpaired electrons and the need to properly des…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Going beyond density functional theory accuracy: Leveraging experimental data to refine pre-trained machine learning interatomic potentials

Shriya Gumber, Lorena Alzate-Vargas, Benjamin T. Nebgen +4

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are inherently limited by the accuracy of the training data, usually consisting of energies and forces obtained from quantum mechani…

physics.comp-ph2025★ 2 cited

Multi-fidelity learning for interatomic potentials: Low-level forces and high-level energies are all you need

Mitchell Messerly, Sakib Matin, Alice E. A. Allen +5

The promise of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) has led to an abundance of public quantum mechanical (QM) training datasets. The quality of an MLIP is directly limit…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Teacher-student training improves accuracy and efficiency of machine learning interatomic potentials

Sakib Matin, Alice E. A. Allen, Emily Shinkle +9

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are revolutionizing the field of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Recent MLIPs have tended towards more complex architectures tr…

physics.app-ph2023★ 1 cited

Machine learning potentials with Iterative Boltzmann Inversion: training to experiment

Sakib Matin, Alice Allen, Justin S. Smith +7

Methodologies for training machine learning potentials (MLPs) to quantum-mechanical simulation data have recently seen tremendous progress. Experimental data has a very different c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 12 cited

Machine Learning Models Capture Plasmon Dynamics in Ag Nanoparticles

Adela Habib, Nicholas Lubbers, Sergei Tretiak +1

Highly energetic electron-hole pairs (hot carriers) formed from plasmon decay in metallic nanostructures promise sustainable pathways for energy-harvesting devices. However, effici…

physics.comp-ph2023

Semi-Empirical Shadow Molecular Dynamics: A PyTorch implementation

Maksim Kulichenko, Kipton Barros, Nicholas Lubbers +5

Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (XL-BOMD) in its most recent shadow potential energy version has been implemented in the semiempirical PyTorch-based softwar…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 26 cited

Lightweight and Effective Tensor Sensitivity for Atomistic Neural Networks

Michael Chigaev, Justin S. Smith, Steven Anaya +4

Atomistic machine learning focuses on the creation of models which obey fundamental symmetries of atomistic configurations, such as permutation, translation, and rotation invarianc…

physics.chem-ph2022

Using Machine Learning Hamiltonians To Compute Molecular Motor Barrier Heights

Aaron Philip, Guoqing Zhou, Benjamin Nebgen

Machine Learning Inter-atomic Potentials (MLIPs) have become a common tool in use by computational chemists due to their combination of accuracy and speed. Yet, it is still not cle…

cs.LG2020

A Neural Network for Determination of Latent Dimensionality in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization

Benjamin T. Nebgen, Raviteja Vangara, Miguel A. Hombrados-Herrera +2

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has proven to be a powerful unsupervised learning method for uncovering hidden features in complex and noisy data sets with applications in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 98 cited

Automated discovery of a robust interatomic potential for aluminum

Justin S. Smith, Benjamin Nebgen, Nithin Mathew +8

Accuracy of molecular dynamics simulations depends crucially on the interatomic potential used to generate forces. The gold standard would be first-principles quantum mechanics (QM…

cond-mat.dis-nn2019★ 39 cited

Machine Learned Hückel Theory: Interfacing Physics and Deep Neural Networks

Tetiana Zubatyuk, Ben Nebgen, Nicholas Lubbers +7

The Hückel Hamiltonian is an incredibly simple tight-binding model famed for its ability to capture qualitative physics phenomena arising from electron interactions in molecules an…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 2 cited

Transferable Molecular Charge Assignment Using Deep Neural Networks

Ben Nebgen, Nick Lubbers, Justin S. Smith +6

We use HIP-NN, a neural network architecture that excels at predicting molecular energies, to predict atomic charges. The charge predictions are accurate over a wide range of molec…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 872 cited

Less is more: sampling chemical space with active learning

Justin S. Smith, Ben Nebgen, Nicholas Lubbers +2

The development of accurate and transferable machine learning (ML) potentials for predicting molecular energetics is a challenging task. The process of data generation to train suc…