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20222026
most citedGraph Neural Networks for Temperature-Dependent Activity Coefficient Prediction of Solutes in Ionic Liquids

84 citations · 360 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 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

A Systematic Evaluation of Molecular Mixture Behavior Prediction

Roel J. Leenhouts, Nathan K. Morgan, William Green +2

Machine learning for molecular property prediction has focused largely on pure compounds, even though many practical applications depend on mixtures with intermolecular interaction…

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

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.AI2025

Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Autonomous Goal-evolving Agents

Yuanqi Du, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu +25

There has been unprecedented interest in developing agents that expand the boundary of scientific discovery, primarily by optimizing quantitative objective functions specified by s…

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…

cs.LG2025

Federated Learning from Molecules to Processes: A Perspective

Jan G. Rittig, Clemens Kortmann

We present a perspective on federated learning in chemical engineering that envisions collaborative efforts in machine learning (ML) developments within the chemical industry. Larg…

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…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 60 cited

Gibbs-Duhem-Informed Neural Networks for Binary Activity Coefficient Prediction

Jan G. Rittig, Kobi C. Felton, Alexei A. Lapkin +1

We propose Gibbs-Duhem-informed neural networks for the prediction of binary activity coefficients at varying compositions. That is, we include the Gibbs-Duhem equation explicitly…

cs.LG2022★ 59 cited

Physical Pooling Functions in Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction

Artur M. Schweidtmann, Jan G. Rittig, Jana M. Weber +4

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging in chemical engineering for the end-to-end learning of physicochemical properties based on molecular graphs. A key element of GNNs is the…

q-bio.BM2022★ 30 cited

Graph neural networks for the prediction of molecular structure-property relationships

Jan G. Rittig, Qinghe Gao, Manuel Dahmen +2

Molecular property prediction is of crucial importance in many disciplines such as drug discovery, molecular biology, or material and process design. The frequently employed quanti…

cs.LG2022★ 84 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Temperature-Dependent Activity Coefficient Prediction of Solutes in Ionic Liquids

Jan G. Rittig, Karim Ben Hicham, Artur M. Schweidtmann +2

Ionic liquids (ILs) are important solvents for sustainable processes and predicting activity coefficients (ACs) of solutes in ILs is needed. Recently, matrix completion methods (MC…

cs.LG2022★ 36 cited

Graph Machine Learning for Design of High-Octane Fuels

Jan G. Rittig, Martin Ritzert, Artur M. Schweidtmann +7

Fuels with high-knock resistance enable modern spark-ignition engines to achieve high efficiency and thus low CO2 emissions. Identification of molecules with desired autoignition p…