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20242026
most citedHANNA: Hard-constraint Neural Network for Consistent Activity Coefficient Prediction

48 citations · 124 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Automated Batch Distillation Process Simulation for a Large Hybrid Dataset for Deep Anomaly Detection

Jennifer Werner, Justus Arweiler, Indra Jungjohann +4

Anomaly detection (AD) in chemical processes based on deep learning offers significant opportunities but requires large, diverse, and well-annotated training datasets that are rare…

physics.chem-ph2025

CHAOS -- A Consistent Large-scale Database for Sigma-Profiles and Other Molecular Descriptors

Dominik Gond, Justus Arweiler, Thomas Specht +2

Sigma-profiles obtained from quantum-chemical calculations are key molecular descriptors for solvent selection, thermodynamic modeling, and data-driven molecular design. However, e…

cs.LG2025

Formally Exploring Time-Series Anomaly Detection Evaluation Metrics

Dennis Wagner, Arjun Nair, Billy Joe Franks +24

Undetected anomalies in time series can trigger catastrophic failures in safety-critical systems, such as chemical plant explosions or power grid outages. Although many detection m…

cs.LG2025

DiffStyleTS: Diffusion Model for Style Transfer in Time Series

Mayank Nagda, Phil Ostheimer, Justus Arweiler +13

Style transfer combines the content of one signal with the style of another. It supports applications such as data augmentation and scenario simulation, helping machine learning mo…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Thermodynamically consistent machine learning model for excess Gibbs energy

Marco Hoffmann, Thomas Specht, Quirin Göttl +4

The excess Gibbs energy plays a central role in chemical engineering and chemistry, providing a basis for modeling thermodynamic properties of liquid mixtures. Predicting the exces…

cs.CE2025★ 1 cited

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics

Rebecca Loubet, Pascal Zittlau, Marco Hoffmann +6

In this short note, we report and analyze a striking event: OpenAI's large language model o3 has outwitted all students in a university exam on thermodynamics. The thermodynamics e…

cs.CE2025★ 1 cited

MLPROP -- an open interactive web interface for thermophysical property prediction with machine learning

Marco Hoffmann, Thomas Specht, Nicolas Hayer +2

Machine learning (ML) enables the development of powerful methods for predicting thermophysical properties with unprecedented scope and accuracy. However, technical barriers like c…

cs.CE2025★ 3 cited

Using Large Language Models for Solving Thermodynamic Problems

Rebecca Loubet, Pascal Zittlau, Luisa Vollmer +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in reasoning, demonstrating their capability to generate human-like responses. This study analyzes the problem-solving c…

cs.LG2025★ 11 cited

GRAPPA -- A Hybrid Graph Neural Network for Predicting Pure Component Vapor Pressures

Marco Hoffmann, Hans Hasse, Fabian Jirasek

Although the pure component vapor pressure is one of the most important properties for designing chemical processes, no broadly applicable, sufficiently accurate, and open-source p…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 19 cited

Modified UNIFAC 2.0 -- A Group-Contribution Method Completed with Machine Learning

Nicolas Hayer, Hans Hasse, Fabian Jirasek

Predicting thermodynamic properties of mixtures is a cornerstone of chemical engineering, yet conventional group-contribution (GC) methods like modified UNIFAC (Dortmund) remain li…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 4 cited

Prediction of Activity Coefficients by Similarity-Based Imputation using Quantum-Chemical Descriptors

Nicolas Hayer, Thomas Specht, Justus Arweiler +3

In this work, we introduce a novel approach for predicting thermodynamic properties of binary mixtures, which we call the similarity-based method (SBM). The method is based on quan…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Matrix Completion for the Prediction of Properties of Binary Mixtures

Dominik Gond, Jan-Tobias Sohns, Heike Leitte +2

Predicting the thermodynamic properties of mixtures is crucial for process design and optimization in chemical engineering. Machine learning (ML) methods are gaining increasing att…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 29 cited

Advancing Thermodynamic Group-Contribution Methods by Machine Learning: UNIFAC 2.0

Nicolas Hayer, Thorsten Wendel, Stephan Mandt +2

Accurate prediction of thermodynamic properties is pivotal in chemical engineering for optimizing process efficiency and sustainability. Physical group-contribution (GC) methods ar…

cs.LG2024★ 48 cited

HANNA: Hard-constraint Neural Network for Consistent Activity Coefficient Prediction

Thomas Specht, Mayank Nagda, Sophie Fellenz +3

We present the first hard-constraint neural network for predicting activity coefficients (HANNA), a thermodynamic mixture property that is the basis for many applications in scienc…

cs.CE2024★ 5 cited

KnowTD-An Actionable Knowledge Representation System for Thermodynamics

Luisa Vollmer, Sophie Fellenz, Fabian Jirasek +2

We demonstrate that thermodynamic knowledge acquired by humans can be transferred to computers so that the machine can use it to solve thermodynamic problems and produce explainabl…