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Crash testing machine learning force fields for molecules, materials, and interfaces: model analysis in the TEA Challenge 2023.
POLTAVSKYI, Igor; CHARKIN-GORBULIN, Anton; PULEVA, Mirela et al.
2025In Chemical Science, 16 (8), p. 3720 - 3737
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Keywords :
Atomistic simulations; Crash testing; Forcefields; Interatomic interactions; Interface modeling; Machine-learning; Material modeling; Modeling analyzes; Molecule modeling; Testing machine; Chemistry (all)
Abstract :
[en] Atomistic simulations are routinely employed in academia and industry to study the behavior of molecules, materials, and their interfaces. Central to these simulations are force fields (FFs), whose development is challenged by intricate interatomic interactions at different spatio-temporal scales and the vast expanse of chemical space. Machine learning (ML) FFs, trained on quantum-mechanical energies and forces, have shown the capacity to achieve sub-kcal (mol-1 Å-1) accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency. The TEA Challenge 2023 rigorously evaluated commonly used MLFFs across diverse applications, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Participants trained their models using provided datasets, and the results were systematically analyzed to assess the ability of MLFFs to reproduce potential energy surfaces, handle incomplete reference data, manage multi-component systems, and model complex periodic structures. This publication describes the datasets, outlines the proposed challenges, and presents a detailed analysis of the accuracy, stability, and efficiency of the MACE, SO3krates, sGDML, SOAP/GAP, and FCHL19* architectures in molecular dynamics simulations. The models represent the MLFF developers who participated in the TEA Challenge 2023. All results presented correspond to the state of the ML architectures as of October 2023. A comprehensive analysis of the molecular dynamics results obtained with different MLFFs will be presented in the second part of this manuscript.
Disciplines :
Chemistry
Author, co-author :
POLTAVSKYI, Igor  ;  University of Luxembourg
CHARKIN-GORBULIN, Anton ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS) ; Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons B-7000 Mons Belgium
PULEVA, Mirela ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS)
Fonseca, Grégory;  Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg L-1511 Luxembourg Luxembourg alexandre.tkatchenko@uni.lu igor.poltavskyi@uni.lu
Batatia, Ilyes;  Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ UK
Browning, Nicholas J;  Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) 6900 Lugano Switzerland
Chmiela, Stefan;  Machine Learning Group, Technical University Berlin Berlin Germany ; BIFOLD, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data Berlin Germany
Cui, Mengnan;  Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berlin Germany
Frank, J Thorben ;  Machine Learning Group, Technical University Berlin Berlin Germany ; BIFOLD, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data Berlin Germany
Heinen, Stefan;  Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence Toronto ON M5S 1M1 Canada
Huang, Bing;  Wuhan University, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences 430072 Wuhan China
Käser, Silvan ;  Department of Chemistry, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 80 CH-4056 Basel Switzerland
KABYLDA, Adil  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS)
Khan, Danish;  Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence Toronto ON M5S 1M1 Canada ; Chemical Physics Theory Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto St George Campus Toronto ON Canada
Müller, Carolin ;  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Computer-Chemistry-Center Nägelsbachstraße 25 91052 Erlangen Germany
Price, Alastair J A;  Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto St George Campus Toronto ON Canada ; Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto 80 St George St Toronto ON M5S 3H6 Canada
Riedmiller, Kai ;  Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies Heidelberg Germany
Töpfer, Kai ;  Department of Chemistry, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 80 CH-4056 Basel Switzerland
Ko, Tsz Wai;  Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr, Mail Code 0448 La Jolla CA 92093-0448 USA
Meuwly, Markus ;  Department of Chemistry, University of Basel Klingelbergstrasse 80 CH-4056 Basel Switzerland
Rupp, Matthias ;  Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg
Csányi, Gábor ;  Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ UK
von Lilienfeld, O Anatole ;  Machine Learning Group, Technical University Berlin Berlin Germany ; BIFOLD, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data Berlin Germany ; Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence Toronto ON M5S 1M1 Canada ; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto St George Campus Toronto ON Canada ; Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto 80 St George St Toronto ON M5S 3H6 Canada ; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto St George Campus Toronto ON Canada ; Department of Physics, University of Toronto St George Campus Toronto ON Canada
Margraf, Johannes T;  University of Bayreuth, Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt) Bayreuth Germany
Müller, Klaus-Robert ;  Machine Learning Group, Technical University Berlin Berlin Germany ; BIFOLD, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data Berlin Germany ; Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University Seoul South Korea ; Max Planck Institut für Informatik Saarbrücken Germany ; Google DeepMind Berlin Germany
TKATCHENKO, Alexandre  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS)
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Language :
English
Title :
Crash testing machine learning force fields for molecules, materials, and interfaces: model analysis in the TEA Challenge 2023.
Publication date :
19 February 2025
Journal title :
Chemical Science
ISSN :
2041-6520
eISSN :
2041-6539
Publisher :
Royal Society of Chemistry, England
Volume :
16
Issue :
8
Pages :
3720 - 3737
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
Université du Luxembourg
Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique – FNRS
Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
European Research Council
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
University of Toronto
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
Korea University
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Klaus Tschira Stiftung
Funding text :
The simulations were performed on the Luxembourg national supercomputer MeluXina. The authors gratefully acknowledge the LuxProvide teams for their expert support. I. Poltavsky would like to acknowledge the financial support afforded by the Luxembourg National Research (FNR) (Grant C19/MS/13718694/QML-FLEX). A. Tkatchenko acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC-AdG Grant FITMOL) and Lux-embourg National Research Fund (FNR-CORE Grant MBD-in-BMD). M. Puleva acknowledges the financial support from Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Luxembourg under the Young Academics Project AQMA. The work of A. Charkin-Gorbulin was performed with the support of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F. R. S.-FNRS). Computational resources were provided by the Consortium des \u00C9quipements de Calcul Intensif (C\u00C9CI) funded FNRS under Grant 2.5020.11. We thank J. Weinreich for the helpful discussions. We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), RGPIN-2023-04853. O. A. von Lilienfeld has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 772834). This research was undertaken thanks in part to funding provided to the University of Toronto's Acceleration Consortium from the Canada First Research Ex-cellence Fund, grant number: CFREF-2022-00042. O. A. von Lilienfeld has received support as the Ed Clark Chair of Advanced Materials and as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. I. Batatia acknowledges access to CSD3 GPU resources through a University of Cambridge EPSRC Core Equipment Award (EP/X034712/1). IB was supported by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship. S. Chmiela and J. T. Frank acknowledge support by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for BIFOLD (01IS18037A). M. Cui acknowledges the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF) for computation time. J. T. Margraf acknowledges support by the Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt) at the University of Bayreuth. The research at Uni Basel was financially supported (to MM) by the Swiss National Science Foundation through Grants 200020_219779 and 200021_215088, which is gratefully acknowledged. A. Kabylda acknowledges financial support from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (AFR PhD Grant 15720828). C. M\u00FCller acknowledges funding by a Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. K.-R. M\u00FCller was in part supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) under Grants 01IS14013A-E, 01GQ1115, 01GQ0850, 01IS18025A, 031L0207D, and 01IS18037A and by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grants funded by the Korea Government (MSIT) (No. 2019-0-00079, Artificial Intelligence Graduate School Program, Korea University and No. 2022-0-00984, Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology for Personalized Plug-and-Play Explanation and Verification of Explanation). K. Riedmiller acknowledges financial support from the Klaus Tschira Foundation. We thank O. Unke and C. Quarti for their helpful comments.
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