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Machine learning interatomic potentials

Neural network-based exchange-correlation functional for density functional theory (DFT) that surpasses state-of-the-art hybrid functionals in accuracy for main-group thermochemistry, kinetics, and non-covalent interactions at semi-local DFT cost; includes PySCF/GPU4PySCF/ASE bindings and C++/Fortran integrations (248+ stars, MIT License)

E(3)-equivariant neural network interatomic potentials achieving DFT accuracy with up to 1000× less training data than invariant models, foundational architecture behind MACE and Allegro (Harvard, MIT, Nature Communications 2022)

PyTorch toolkit for deep neural networks in atomistic simulations, implementing SchNet, DimeNet++, PaiNN, and GemNet for molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry (900+ stars)

Meta's comprehensive ML ecosystem for materials/chemistry with 118M+ DFT calculations, EquiformerV2 models achieving top Matbench Discovery performance

Python Materials Genomics: robust materials analysis library defining classes for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes; foundational toolkit powering the Materials Project (Berkeley Lab, 1.8K+ stars)

Deep learning atomistic model across elements, temperatures, and pressures

AI-driven desktop workbench for computational materials science with an interactive 3D structure editor, natural-language CatBot assistant, visual DAG workflow engine, remote-cluster access, and HPC job submission for VASP, ORCA, CP2K, Quantum ESPRESSO, GPAW, DFTB+, SIESTA, and LAMMPS (172+ stars, AGPL-3.0, 2026)

Developer toolkit for accelerating training and inference for AI in chemistry and material science, providing optimized GPU-accelerated workflows for molecular and materials machine learning (NVIDIA, 2026)

Graph neural network interatomic potential package supporting efficient multi-GPU parallel molecular dynamics simulations, enabling large-scale atomistic modeling with machine learning potentials (MDIL-SNU, MIT License)

Diffusion-based generative model for inorganic materials design, steering generation by chemistry, symmetry, bulk modulus, band gap, or magnetic properties, 2× more likely to produce stable novel structures than prior methods, experimentally validated with synthesized TaCr₂O₆ (Microsoft, Nature 2025)

Curated list of atomistic ML projects for materials science

Universal machine learning interatomic potential for atomistic simulation of materials, molecules, and biomolecules across the periodic table, with open-source pretrained models and inference tools (Orbital Materials, 2024-2025)

Family of large language models for materials research via continued pretraining of LLaMA-2/3 on ~30B materials science tokens, outperforming commercial LLMs on materials science tasks while identifying "adaptation rigidity" in overtrained models; includes MatNLP benchmark and CIF crystal generation capabilities (IIT Delhi M3RG, MIT License)

DeepMind's graph neural network for materials exploration, discovering 2.2M new crystal structures (380K most stable) equivalent to 800 years of traditional research, with 520K+ materials dataset open-sourced (Nature 2023)

Highly scalable equivariant deep learning interatomic potentials enabling million-atom molecular dynamics simulations with ab initio accuracy, building on E(3)-equivariant architectures for large-scale atomistic modeling (mir-group, MIT License, 480+ stars)

Unified latent diffusion transformer that jointly generates periodic crystals and non-periodic molecules, scaling to 500M parameters with SOTA results on QM9, MP20, and GEOM-DRUGS (Meta FAIR, ICML 2025, 310+ stars)

Universal pretrained neural network potential with charge and magnetic moment awareness, trained on 1.5M+ Materials Project inorganic structures for charge-informed molecular dynamics and phase diagram prediction (Berkeley, Nature Machine Intelligence 2023 Cover)

NIST's open-source platform for data-driven atomistic materials design, integrating DFT datasets (JARVIS-DFT), machine learning property prediction (JARVIS-ML), and a comprehensive leaderboard for benchmarking materials AI methods across the periodic table (384+ stars)

Materials informatics benchmark

Crystal property prediction