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Articlenpj computational materials2025

Fast and Fourier features for transfer learning of interatomic potentials.

Pietro Novelli, Giacomo Meanti, Pedro J Buigues, Lorenzo Rosasco, Michele Parrinello, Massimiliano Pontil, Luigi Bonati

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Article in npj computational materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  6. Weighted active space protocol for multireference machine-learned potentials.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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Pietro NovelliComputational Statistics and Machine Learning, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Giacomo MeantiCentre Inria de l'Université Grenoble Alpes, Montbonnot, France.
Pedro J BuiguesComputational Statistics and Machine Learning, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Lorenzo RosascoMaLGa Center-DIBRIS, Universitá di Genova, Genova, Italy.
Michele ParrinelloAtomistic Simulations, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Massimiliano PontilComputational Statistics and Machine Learning, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
Luigi BonatiAtomistic Simulations, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.

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Abstract

Training machine learning interatomic potentials that are both computationally and data-efficient is a key challenge for enabling their routine use in atomistic simulations. To this effect, we introduce franken, a scalable and lightweight transfer learning framework that extracts atomic descriptors from pre-trained graph neural networks and transfers them to new systems using random Fourier features - an efficient and scalable approximation of kernel methods. It also provides a closed-form fine-tuning strategy for general-purpose potentials such as MACE-MP0, enabling fast and accurate adaptation to new systems or levels of quantum mechanical theory with minimal hyperparameter tuning. On a benchmark dataset of 27 transition metals, franken outperforms optimized kernel-based methods in both training time and accuracy, reducing model training from tens of hours to minutes on a single GPU. We further demonstrate the framework's strong data-efficiency by training stable and accurate potentials for bulk water and the Pt(111)/water interface using just tens of training structures. Our open-source implementation (https://franken.readthedocs.io) offers a fast and practical solution for training potentials and deploying them for molecular dynamics simulations across diverse systems.

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Condensed-matter physicsPhysical chemistryTheoretical chemistry

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PMID41018849
PMCPMC12463661

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