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Record W4407320154 · doi:10.1039/d4sc06529h

Crash testing machine learning force fields for molecules, materials, and interfaces: model analysis in the TEA Challenge 2023

2025· article· en· W4407320154 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueChemical Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMachine Learning in Materials Science
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoVector Institute
FundersInstitute for Information and Communications Technology PromotionEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilKlaus Tschira StiftungUniversity of TorontoBundesministerium für Bildung und ForschungEuropean Research CouncilFonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRSNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMinistry of Science and ICT, South KoreaFonds National de la Recherche LuxembourgCanada First Research Excellence FundSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungNational Science FoundationUniversité du LuxembourgKorea UniversityHorizon 2020 Framework ProgrammeCanadian Institute for Advanced ResearchEuropean CommissionAlexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
KeywordsCrashComputer scienceForce field (fiction)NanotechnologyEngineeringArtificial intelligenceMaterials science

Abstract

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) accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency. The TEA Challenge 2023 rigorously evaluated commonly used MLFFs across diverse applications, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Participants trained their models using provided datasets, and the results were systematically analyzed to assess the ability of MLFFs to reproduce potential energy surfaces, handle incomplete reference data, manage multi-component systems, and model complex periodic structures. This publication describes the datasets, outlines the proposed challenges, and presents a detailed analysis of the accuracy, stability, and efficiency of the MACE, SO3krates, sGDML, SOAP/GAP, and FCHL19* architectures in molecular dynamics simulations. The models represent the MLFF developers who participated in the TEA Challenge 2023. All results presented correspond to the state of the ML architectures as of October 2023. A comprehensive analysis of the molecular dynamics results obtained with different MLFFs will be presented in the second part of this manuscript.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.595
Threshold uncertainty score0.586

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it