{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/evidential-deep-learning-for-interatomic","title":"Evidential Deep Learning for Interatomic Potentials","arxiv_id":"2407.13994","date":"2024-07-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Han Xu","Taoyong Cui","Chenyu Tang","Jinzhe Ma","Dongzhan Zhou","Yuqiang Li","Xiang Gao","Xingao Gong","Wanli Ouyang","Shufei Zhang","Mao Su"],"abstract":"Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have been widely used to facilitate large-scale molecular simulations with accuracy comparable to ab initio methods. In practice, MLIP-based molecular simulations often encounter the issue of collapse due to reduced prediction accuracy for out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Addressing this issue requires enriching the training dataset through active learning, where uncertainty serves as a critical indicator for identifying and collecting OOD data. However, existing uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods tend to involve either expensive computations or compromise prediction accuracy. In this work, we introduce evidential deep learning for interatomic potentials (eIP) with a physics-inspired design. Our experiments indicate that eIP provides reliable UQ results without significant computational overhead or decreased prediction accuracy, consistently outperforming other UQ methods across a variety of datasets. Furthermore, we demonstrate the applications of eIP in exploring diverse atomic configurations, using examples including water and universal potentials. These results highlight the potential of eIP as a robust and efficient alternative for UQ in molecular simulations.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13994v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13994v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"evidential-deep-learning-for-interatomic","repo_url":"https://github.com/xuhan323/eIP","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2407.13994","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}