Computational Chemistry
Potential energy surface showing molecular conformation space with equilibrium and low energy conformations

DenoiseVAE: Adaptive Noise for Molecular Pre-training

Liu et al.'s ICLR 2025 paper introducing DenoiseVAE, which learns adaptive, atom-specific noise for better molecular …

Computational Chemistry
Adaptive grid merging visualization for benzene molecule showing multi-resolution spatial discretization

Beyond Atoms: 3D Space Modeling for Molecular Pretraining

Lu et al. introduce SpaceFormer, a Transformer that models entire 3D molecular space (not just atoms) for superior …

Computational Chemistry
Atomic structure of a spherical fullerene

Dark Side of Forces: Non-Conservative ML Force Models

Bigi et al. critique non-conservative force models in ML potentials, showing their simulation failures and proposing …

Computational Chemistry
Spherical harmonics visualization

Efficient DFT Hamiltonian Prediction via Adaptive Sparsity

Luo et al. introduce SPHNet, using adaptive sparsity to dramatically improve SE(3)-equivariant Hamiltonian prediction …

Computational Chemistry
Atomic structure of a spherical fullerene

Learning Smooth Interatomic Potentials with eSEN

Fu et al. propose energy conservation as a key MLIP diagnostic and introduce eSEN, bridging test accuracy and real …