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New Conformal Risk Control method optimizes DFT selection for MLIPs

Researchers have developed a novel approach using Conformal Risk Control (CRC) to optimize the selection of configurations for density functional theory (DFT) calculations in materials discovery. This method aims to reduce the computational bottleneck of DFT by using pre-trained machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) more effectively. The CRC framework calibrates an MLIP-DFT disagreement score, ensuring that the errors on configurations not selected for DFT remain below a specified threshold, thereby improving the efficiency of automated materials discovery. AI

IMPACT This method could significantly speed up materials discovery by reducing reliance on expensive DFT calculations, enabling faster iteration in AI-driven research.

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New Conformal Risk Control method optimizes DFT selection for MLIPs

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Kun Ryu, Yeo Jin Jung, Shyue Ping Ong, Claire Donnat, Ying Shirley Meng ·

    Risk-Controlled DFT Selection for Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials

    arXiv:2610.19630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated materials discovery requires evaluating large pools of candidate configurations, with density functional theory (DFT) as a major throughput bottleneck. Pretrained machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) approximat…