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most citedThermodynamics-Consistent Graph Neural Networks

37 citations · 91 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

A systematic comparison of hard- and soft-constrained physics-informed molecular machine learning with the Clapeyron equation

Jan Pavšek, Jan G. Rittig, Alexander Mitsos

In molecular machine learning (ML), significant progress has been made on integrating fundamental thermodynamic relations into ML models. Such physics-informed approaches can be ca…

cs.LG2026

Hybrid Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Data-Efficient Polymerization Modeling with Incomplete Kinetics

Marah Almanasreh, Alexander Mitsos, Eike Cramer

Accurate prediction of polymerization dynamics is essential for process design, control, and optimization. Yet, purely mechanistic models require labor-intensive parameterization o…

cs.LG2026

Tabular foundation models for in-context prediction of molecular properties

Karim K. Ben Hicham, Jan G. Rittig, Martin Grohe +1

Accurate molecular property prediction is central to drug discovery, catalysis, and process design, yet real-world applications are often limited by small datasets. Molecular found…

cs.LG2026

Bayesian Optimization of Partially Known Systems using Hybrid Models

Eike Cramer, Luis Kutschat, Oliver Stollenwerk +2

Bayesian optimization (BO) has gained attention as an efficient algorithm for black-box optimization of expensive-to-evaluate systems, where the BO algorithm iteratively queries th…

cs.LG2026

Differentiable Thermodynamic Phase-Equilibria for Machine Learning

Karim K. Ben Hicham, Moreno Ascani, Jan G. Rittig +1

Accurate prediction of phase equilibria remains a central challenge in chemical engineering. Physics-consistent machine learning methods that incorporate thermodynamic structure in…

physics.chem-ph2026

Clapeyron Neural Networks for Single-Species Vapor-Liquid Equilibria

Jan Pavšek, Alexander Mitsos, Elvis J. Sim +1

Machine learning (ML) approaches have shown promising results for predicting molecular properties relevant for chemical process design. However, they are often limited by scarce ex…

cs.LG2026

Amortized Molecular Optimization via Group Relative Policy Optimization

Muhammad bin Javaid, Hasham Hussain, Ashima Khanna +5

In structurally constrained molecular optimization, state-of-the-art methods restart an expensive oracle-driven search from scratch for every new input structure, scaling poorly to…

physics.chem-ph2025

DeepEOSNet: Capturing the dependency on thermodynamic state in property prediction tasks

Jan Pavšek, Alexander Mitsos, Manuel Dahmen +2

We propose a machine learning (ML) architecture to better capture the dependency of thermodynamic properties on the independent states. When predicting state-dependent thermodynami…

physics.chem-ph2025

Molecular Machine Learning in Chemical Process Design

Jan G. Rittig, Manuel Dahmen, Martin Grohe +2

We present a perspective on molecular machine learning (ML) in the field of chemical process engineering. Recently, molecular ML has demonstrated great potential in (i) providing h…

eess.SY2025

Nonlinear Model Order Reduction of Dynamical Systems in Process Engineering: Review and Comparison

Jan C. Schulze, Alexander Mitsos

Computationally cheap yet accurate dynamical models are a key requirement for real-time capable nonlinear optimization and model-based control. When given a computationally expensi…

physics.chem-ph2024

Predicting the Temperature-Dependent CMC of Surfactant Mixtures with Graph Neural Networks

Christoforos Brozos, Jan G. Rittig, Elie Akanny +3

Surfactants are key ingredients in foaming and cleansing products across various industries such as personal and home care, industrial cleaning, and more, with the critical micelle…

cs.LG2024★ 8 cited

GraphXForm: Graph transformer for computer-aided molecular design

Jonathan Pirnay, Jan G. Rittig, Alexander B. Wolf +4

Generative deep learning has become pivotal in molecular design for drug discovery, materials science, and chemical engineering. A widely used paradigm is to pretrain neural networ…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024★ 37 cited

Thermodynamics-Consistent Graph Neural Networks

Jan G. Rittig, Alexander Mitsos

We propose excess Gibbs free energy graph neural networks (GE-GNNs) for predicting composition-dependent activity coefficients of binary mixtures. The GE-GNN architecture ensures t…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 20 cited

Predicting the Temperature Dependence of Surfactant CMCs Using Graph Neural Networks

Christoforos Brozos, Jan G. Rittig, Sandip Bhattacharya +3

The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of surfactant molecules is an essential property for surfactant applications in industry. Recently, classical QSPR and Graph Neural Network…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 26 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Surfactant Multi-Property Prediction

Christoforos Brozos, Jan G. Rittig, Sandip Bhattacharya +3

Surfactants are of high importance in different industrial sectors such as cosmetics, detergents, oil recovery and drug delivery systems. Therefore, many quantitative structure-pro…

eess.SY2023

Data-Driven Model Reduction and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of an Air Separation Unit by Applied Koopman Theory

Jan C. Schulze, Danimir T. Doncevic, Nils Erwes +1

Achieving real-time capability is an essential prerequisite for the industrial implementation of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC). Data-driven model reduction offers a way…