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LATHE 将七类晶体学性质写成可微目标,实现自然语言驱动的晶体结构精细编辑

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核心概要

作者提出 LATHE 几何工具包,把键长、键角、二面角、配位环境、晶格参数、晶胞体积与空间群七类晶体学性质表达为可微目标,从而对给定晶体结构做直接几何编辑;单性质基准上七类约束均接近完全满足且优化结构接近局部能量极小,配套智能体把超过 87.5% 的自然语言提示转成可执行配置,在带隙逆向设计案例中十次独立运行有九次进入目标容差窗口,典型代价为十三轮假设—评估循环。

Source-provided article image: LATHE: LAnguage-driven Toolkit for Hypothesis-based crystal Editing
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Figure 1: Representative gradient-optimization trajectories. Each row shows four frames of a single optimization — the initial structure, frames at approximately 1/3 and 2/3 of the trajectory, and the final optimized structure, with the step index given in parentheses. In every panel, periodic-image partners that lie outside the primitive cell are indicated by a dashed black ring drawn around the atom. (a) Bond-length optimization of a CaCO 3 structure (mp-556235). Ten bonds are jointly driven to user-specified distances under a weak MLIP-energy co-objective ( w = 0.01 w=0.01 ). Each targeted ( i , j ) (i,j) pair is drawn as a uniform blue line connecting the two atoms (or atom i i and the nearest periodic image of atom j j when the bond wraps through the cell boundary). The first frame labels each bond with its starting distance (in Å); the final frame labels each bond with its target distance (in Å); intermediate frames show the bonds without numerical labels for clarity. (b) Space-group elevation of Al 2 O 3 (mp-638765) from P-1 (No. 2) to R-3m (No. 166). The 2 × 2 × 2 2\times 2\times 2 supercell of the structures are shown. The optimization is again regularized by the MLIP-energy co-objective. (c) Coordination-environment modification of an oxygen site in MgSiO 3 (mp-1180468). The goal is to raise the number of Mg neighbors of an Oxygen atom from one to three while maintaining the number of Si and O neighbors. The target oxygen atom is highlighted with a bold solid black ring, and its first-neighbor shell within the coordination-loss cutoff of 3.5 Å is drawn as colored lines from the target site to each neighbor, one line per (atom, periodic-image) contact and colored by the element of the neighbor (Mg in green, Si in blue; O in red). As the optimization progresses, the number and identity of neighbors inside the cutoff shell evolve toward the specified target coordination.

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深度剖析

LATHE 把七类晶体学性质统一写成可微目标,使晶体结构可以在给定输入上被直接几何编辑,而不是只能从头生成完整结构。 既有框架中,大语言模型空间感知弱、在 token 空间操作粒度粗,扩散与梯度式结构生成方法通常只做 de novo 生成;LATHE 补上的正是对给定输入在任意约束下做细粒度编辑这一环。 摘要报告在单性质基准上,七类性质均达到接近完全的约束满足,同时优化后结构保持在局部能量极小附近。

LATHE 通过 Model Context Protocol 服务器暴露能力,并嵌入闭环多智能体系统,把自然语言假设翻译为几何修改。 这把自然语言层面的假设生成与物理上有依据的梯度式结构编辑连接起来,形成可解释的闭环计算材料发现流程。 摘要报告配备 LATHE 的智能体把超过 87.5% 的自然语言提示转成有效可执行配置,并忠实完成这些配置。

在带隙逆向设计案例中,多智能体闭环能够达到目标容差窗口。 该案例展示了从设计目标出发、经自然语言假设到几何编辑的完整闭环在具体功能性质上的可用性。 摘要报告十次独立运行中有九次达到目标容差窗口,典型代价为十三轮假设—评估循环。

启示与展望

该工作面向需要在给定晶体结构上施加几何或对称性约束的材料设计场景,使用者包括做功能材料逆向设计的计算材料研究者与希望用自然语言驱动结构编辑的智能体开发者。LATHE 的适用范围由七类性质界定:键长、键角、二面角、配位环境、晶格参数、晶胞体积与空间群;其闭环演示针对带隙逆向设计这一具体目标。可在此基础上把更多设计目标接入同一可微目标与多智能体框架,或把该工具包用于其他需要精细结构编辑的任务。

摘要未说明单性质基准的样本规模、性质之间的相互影响,以及“接近局部能量极小”的判定标准;提示转可执行配置的失败情形与错误类型也未展开。带隙案例中十次运行有一次未进入容差窗口,其原因与循环代价的分布尚不清楚。此外,本次读取范围仅为摘要,未包含正文图表与实验细节,因此上述数值的统计不确定性与跨材料体系的泛化程度仍是开放问题。

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