Authors: Xuan Zhang | Limei Wang | Jacob Helwig | Youzhi Luo | Cong Fu | Yaochen Xie | Meng Liu | Yuchao Lin | Xu Zhao | Keqiang Yan | Keir Adams | Maurice Weiler | Xiner Li | Tianfan Fu | Yucheng Wang | Alex Strasser | Haiyang Yu | Yuqing Xie | Xiang Fu | Shenglong Xu | Yi Liu | Yuanqi Du | Alexandra Saxton | Hongyi Ling | Hannah R. Lawrence | H. Stärk | Shurui Gui | Carl N. Edwards | Nicholas Gao | Adriana Ladera | Tailin Wu | Elyssa F. Hofgard | Aria Mansouri Tehrani | Rui Wang | Ameya Daigavane | Montgomery Bohde | Jerry Kurtin | Qian Huang | Tuong Phung | Minkai Xu | Chaitanya K. Joshi | Simon V. Mathis | Kamyar Azizzadenesheli | Ada Fang | Alán Aspuru‐Guzik | Erik J. Bekkers | Michael M. Bronstein | Marinka Žitnik | Anima Anandkumar | Stefano Ermon | Píetro Lió | Rose Yu | Stephan Günnemann | Jure Leskovec | Heng Ji | Jimeng Sun | Regina Barzilay | Tommi Jaakkola | Connor W. Coley | Xiaoning Qian | Xiaofeng Qian | Tess Smidt | Shuiwang Ji
Source: arXiv (Cornell University) (preprint, 2023-07-17)
Field: Materials Science — Materials Chemistry

Artificial Intelligence for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are fueling a new paradigm of discoveries in natural sciences. Today, AI has started to advance natural sciences by improving, accelerating, and enabling our understanding of natural phenomena at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, giving rise to a new area of research known as AI for science (AI4Science). Being an emerging research paradigm, AI4Science is unique in that it is an enormous and highly interdisciplinary area. Thus, a unified and technical treatment of this field is needed yet challenging. This work aims to provide a technically thorough account of a subarea of AI4Science; namely, AI for quantum, atomistic, and continuum systems. These areas aim at understanding the physical world from the subatomic (wavefunctions and electron density), atomic (molecules, proteins, materials, and interactions), to macro (fluids, climate, and subsurface) scales and form an important subarea of AI4Science. A unique advantage of focusing on these areas is that they largely share a common set of challenges, thereby allowing a unified and foundational treatment. A key common challenge is how to capture physics first principles, especially symmetries, in natural systems by deep learning methods. We provide an in-depth yet intuitive account of techniques to achieve equivariance to symmetry transformations. We also discuss other common technical challenges, including explainability, out-of-distribution generalization, knowledge transfer with foundation and large language models, and uncertainty quantification. To facilitate learning and education, we provide categorized lists of resources that we found to be useful. We strive to be thorough and unified and hope this initial effort may trigger more community interests and efforts to further advance AI4Science. Subatomic particle ; Computer science ; Data science ; Natural (archaeology) ; Field (mathematics) ; Artificial intelligence ; Cognitive science ; Management science ; Physics ; Engineering ; Mathematics ; Geography ; Quantum mechanics ; Psychology Machine Learning in Materials Science