Physical prior mean function-driven Gaussian processes search for minimum-energy reaction paths with a climbing-image nudged elastic band: a general method for …

C Teng, Y Wang, JL Bao - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The climbing-image nudged elastic band (CI-NEB) method serves as an indispensable tool
for computational chemists, offering insight into minimum-energy reaction paths (MEPs) by …

Algorithmic differentiation for automated modeling of machine learned force fields

NF Schmitz, KR Muller, S Chmiela - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Reconstructing force fields (FFs) from atomistic simulation data is a challenge since accurate
data can be highly expensive. Here, machine learning (ML) models can help to be data …

Exploring torsional conformer space with physical prior mean function-driven meta-Gaussian processes

C Teng, D Huang, E Donahue, JL Bao - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a novel approach for systematically exploring the conformational space of small
molecules with multiple internal torsions. Identifying unique conformers through a systematic …

Dual-level training of Gaussian processes with physically inspired priors for geometry optimizations

C Teng, Y Wang, D Huang, K Martin… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gaussian process (GP) regression has been recently developed as an effective method in
molecular geometry optimization. The prior mean function is one of the crucial parts of the …

A spur to molecular geometry optimization: Gradient-enhanced universal kriging with on-the-fly adaptive ab initio prior mean functions in curvilinear coordinates

C Teng, D Huang, JL Bao - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a molecular geometry optimization algorithm based on the gradient-enhanced
universal kriging (GEUK) formalism with ab initio prior mean functions, which incorporates …

First-principle oligopeptide structural optimization with physical prior mean-driven Gaussian processes: a test of synergistic impacts of the kernel functional and …

Y Chang, C Teng, JL Bao - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
First-principle molecular structural determination is critical in many aspects of computational
modeling, and yet, the precise determination of a local minimum for a large-sized organic …

Integrating Chemical Information into Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Molecular Geometry Optimization

YC Chang, YP Li - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
Geometry optimization is a crucial step in computational chemistry, and the efficiency of
optimization algorithms plays a pivotal role in reducing computational costs. In this study, we …

Geometry meta-optimization

D Huang, JL Bao, JB Tristan - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recent work has demonstrated the promise of using machine-learned surrogates, in
particular, Gaussian process (GP) surrogates, in reducing the number of electronic structure …

Surrogate modeling of the effective elastic properties of spherical particle-reinforced composite materials

JC García-Merino, C Calvo-Jurado… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2022 - Springer
This paper focuses on the development of a surrogate model to predict the macroscopic
elastic properties of polymer composites doped with spherical particles. To this aim, a …