Inverse Design of Porous Materials: A Diffusion Model Approach
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The success of diffusion models in the field of image processing has propelled the creation of software such as Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, which are tools used for text-to-image generations. Mapping this workflow onto materials discovery, a new diffusion model was developed for the generation of pure silica zeolite, marking it the first application of diffusion models to porous materials. Our model demonstrates the ability to generate novel crystalline porous materials that are not present in the training dataset, while exhibiting exceptional performance in inverse design tasks targeted on various chemical properties including the void fraction, Henry coefficient and heat of adsorption. Comparing our model with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) revealed that the diffusion model outperforms the GAN in terms of structure validity, exhibiting an over 2,000-fold improvement in performance. We firmly believe that diffusion models (along with other deep generative models) hold immense potential in revolutionizing the design of new materials, and anticipate the wide extension of our model to other classes of porous materials.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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