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20232026
most citedAI-driven inverse design of materials: Past, present and future

72 citations · 218 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.AI2026

Continuous-Time Quantum Walks based Graph Neural Network

Yuliang Zhan, Zefeng Gao, Jian Li +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used on graph-structured data, but most suffer from two key weaknesses. First, message passing behaves as a low-pass filter under the homoph…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Screening phonon-mediated superconductors from static orbital Hamiltonians

Jian-Feng Zhang, Ze-Feng Gao, Xiao-Qi Han +6

The first-principles search for superconductors is severely limited by the high cost of electron-phonon coupling (EPC) calculations. Here we develop a low-cost, physically transpar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Twist-induced magnetic topological phase transition in stacked altermagnetic CrO

Zi-Hao Ding, Ze-Feng Gao, Xiang-Hua Kong +2

Interlayer twisting offers a geometric route to controlling electronic states, but whether it can simultaneously reconstruct magnetic symmetry and band topology remains unclear. He…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Emergent d-wave altermagnetism in chlorine-adsorbed FeSe monolayer

Zi-Hao Ding, Ze-Feng Gao, Kai Liu +2

The recent emergence of altermagnetism has opened new frontiers in condensed matter physics, yet material platforms capable of hosting both intrinsic altermagnetic order and superc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

PhononScore: a phonon-aware scoring function for dynamical stability

Xiao-Qi Han, Ze-Feng Gao, Zhong-Yi Lu

In recent years, crystal generation models have enabled the design of massive numbers of candidate materials. However, the lack of dynamical stability among generated structures ha…

cond-mat.str-el2026

NQS-Agent: Health-Aware Agentic Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural-Network Quantum States

Jia-Qi Wang, Xiao-Qi Han, Ze-Feng Gao +2

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) provide expressive variational representations for strongly correlated quantum many-body systems, but their practical accuracy depends sensitive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

InvDesMobility: a reliability-gated first-principles feedback framework for closed-loop materials discovery

Wen-Kao Li, Ze-Feng Gao, Peng-Jie Guo +2

Inverse materials design starts from target functionality and searches for structures that can realize it. Its value in closed-loop discovery depends not only on prediction perform…

cs.AI2026

PhononBench-MP40: a spectrum-resolved benchmark dataset for phonon stability

Wen-Kao Li, Ze-Feng Gao, Zhong-Yi Lu

Imaginary phonon modes remain a practical bottleneck in computational materials screening because otherwise plausible structures can be locally dynamically unstable under a chosen…

cs.LG2026

LEAP: A closed-loop framework for perovskite precursor additive discovery

Xin-De Wang, Zhi-Rui Chen, Ze-Feng Gao +3

Efficient discovery of precursor additives is essential for improving the performance of perovskite solar cells, yet the large chemical space makes conventional trial-and-error scr…

cs.LG2026

Strategic Over-Parameterization for Generalizable Low-Rank Adaptation

Jing Gao, Zhong-Yi Lu, Pan Zhang +1

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks via full fine-tuning is increasingly impractical due to its computational and memory demands. Parameter-efficient fine-tun…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Bridging Crystal Structure and Material Properties via Bond-Centric Descriptors

Jian-Feng Zhang, Ze-Feng Gao, Xiao-Qi Han +7

Although chemical bonding is the fundamental mechanistic bridge connecting atomic structure to macroscopic material properties, current data-driven materials science largely treats…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

PhononBench:A Large-Scale Phonon-Based Benchmark for Dynamical Stability in Crystal Generation

Xiao-Qi Han, Ze-Feng Gao, Wen-Kao Li +2

In recent years, generative artificial intelligence has made significant advances in the design of crystalline materials, giving rise to approaches based on graph neural networks,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Anomalous charge density wave in altermagnetism

Zi-Hao Ding, Lei Wang, Zhen-Feng Ouyang +6

Exploring the intricate interplay between magnetism and charge density waves has long been a fundamental pursuit at the forefront of condensed matter research. In this letter, base…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Superconductivity in atom-intercalated quaternary hydrides under ambient pressure

Bo-Wen Yao, Zhenfeng Ouyang, Xiao-Qi Han +4

Hydrogen-rich materials are the most promising candidates for high-temperature conventional superconductors under ambient pressure. Multinary hydrides have abundant structural conf…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Stacking-induced type-II quantum spin Hall insulators with high spin Chern number in unconventional magnetism

Chao-Yang Tan, Panjun Feng, Ze-Feng Gao +3

While stacking two type-I quantum spin Hall insulators typically results in a trivial insulator, the behavior of the assembly of type-II quantum spin Hall insulators remains unexpl…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Perovskite-R1: a domain-specialized large language model for intelligent discovery of precursor additives and experimental design

Xin-De Wang, Zhi-Rui Chen, Peng-Jie Guo +3

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have rapidly emerged as a leading contender in next-generation photovoltaic technologies, owing to their exceptional power conversion efficiencies and…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 2 cited

HTSC-2025: A Benchmark Dataset of Ambient-Pressure High-Temperature Superconductors for AI-Driven Critical Temperature Prediction

Xiao-Qi Han, Ze-Feng Gao, Xin-De Wang +3

The discovery of high-temperature superconducting materials holds great significance for human industry and daily life. In recent years, research on predicting superconducting tran…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 17 cited

InvDesFlow-AL: active learning-based workflow for inverse design of functional materials

Xiao-Qi Han, Peng-Jie Guo, Ze-Feng Gao +2

Developing inverse design methods for functional materials with specific properties is critical to advancing fields like renewable energy, catalysis, energy storage, and carbon cap…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Unconventional compensated magnetic material LaMnSbO

Xiao-Yao Hou, Ze-Feng Gao, Huan-Cheng Yang +2

Unconventional magnetism including altermagnetism and unconventional compensated magnetism, characterized by its duality of real-space antiferromagnetic alignment and momentum-spac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Luttinger compensated bipolarized magnetic semiconductor

Peng-Jie Guo, Xiao-Yao Hou, Ze-Feng Gao +3

Altermagnetic materials, with real-space antiferromagnetic arrangement and reciprocal-space anisotropic spin splitting, have attracted much attention. However, the spin splitting i…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 17 cited

High-temperature superconductivity in LiAuH mediated by strong electron-phonon coupling under ambient pressure

Zhenfeng Ouyang, Bo-Wen Yao, Xiao-Qi Han +3

We used our developed AI search engine~(InvDesFlow) to perform extensive investigations regarding ambient stable superconducting hydrides. A cubic structure LiAuH with Au-H…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Type-II Dirac nodal chain semimetal CrB4

Xiao-Yao Hou, Ze-Feng Gao, Peng-Jie Guo +2

Dirac nodal line semimetals with topologically protected drumhead surface states have attracted intense theoretical and experimental attention over a decade. However, the study of…

cs.AI2024

Over-parameterized Student Model via Tensor Decomposition Boosted Knowledge Distillation

Yu-Liang Zhan, Zhong-Yi Lu, Hao Sun +1

Increased training parameters have enabled large pre-trained models to excel in various downstream tasks. Nevertheless, the extensive computational requirements associated with the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 72 cited

AI-driven inverse design of materials: Past, present and future

Xiao-Qi Han, Xin-De Wang, Meng-Yuan Xu +5

The discovery of advanced materials is the cornerstone of human technological development and progress. The structures of materials and their corresponding properties are essential…