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ArticleNature communications2025

Image super-resolution inspired electron density prediction.

Chenghan Li, Or Sharir, Shunyue Yuan, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Chenghan LiDivision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91125, CA, USA.
Or SharirDivision of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91125, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4957-8957
Shunyue YuanDivision of Engineering and Applied Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91125, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2312-8667
Garnet Kin-Lic ChanDivision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 91125, CA, USA. gkc1000@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8009-6038

Funding

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.) Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences and EngineeringDOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences (BES) C2448Simons Foundation Simons Investigator
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predicting ground-state electron densities of chemical systems has recently received growing attention in machine learning quantum chemistry, given their fundamental importance as highlighted by the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem. Drawing inspiration from the domain of image super-resolution, we view the electron density as a 3D grayscale image and use a convolutional residual network to transform a crude and trivially generated guess of the molecular density into an accurate ground-state quantum mechanical density. Here we show that this model produces more accurate predictions than all prior density prediction approaches. Due to its simplicity, the model is directly applicable to unseen molecular conformations and chemical elements. We show that fine-tuning on limited new data provides high accuracy even in challenging cases of exotic elements and charge states.

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PMID40410201
PMCPMC12102193

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