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Brandon M Wood

10 accepted papers

2026

Enhancing Diffusion-Based Sampling with Molecular Collective Variables

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion-based samplers learn to sample complex, high-dimensional distributions using energies or log densities alone, without training data. Yet, they remain impractical for molecular sampling because they are often slower than molecular dynamics and miss thermodynamically relevant modes. Inspired…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Adjoint Sampling: Highly Scalable Diffusion Samplers via Adjoint Matching

ICML 2025poster

We introduce Adjoint Sampling, a highly scalable and efficient algorithm for learning diffusion processes that sample from unnormalized densities, or energy functions. It is the first on-policy approach that allows significantly more gradient updates than the number of energy evaluations and model s…

2025

Learning Smooth and Expressive Interatomic Potentials for Physical Property Prediction

ICML 2025oral

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become increasingly effective at approximating quantum mechanical calculations at a fraction of the computational cost. However, lower errors on held out test sets do not always translate to improved results on downstream physical property predict…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

UMA: A Family of Universal Models for Atoms

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

The ability to quickly and accurately compute properties from atomic simulations is critical for advancing a large number of applications in chemistry and materials science including drug discovery, energy storage, and semiconductor manufacturing. To address this need, we present a family of Univers…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

EquiformerV2: Improved Equivariant Transformer for Scaling to Higher-Degree Representations

ICLR 2024poster

Equivariant Transformers such as Equiformer have demonstrated the efficacy of applying Transformers to the domain of 3D atomistic systems. However, they are limited to small degrees of equivariant representations due to their computational complexity. In this paper, we investigate whether these arch…

2024

FlowLLM: Flow Matching for Material Generation with Large Language Models as Base Distributions

NeurIPS 2024poster

Material discovery is a critical area of research with the potential to revolutionize various fields, including carbon capture, renewable energy, and electronics. However, the immense scale of the chemical space makes it challenging to explore all possible materials experimentally. In this paper, we…

2024

FlowMM: Generating Materials with Riemannian Flow Matching

ICML 2024poster

Crystalline materials are a fundamental component in next-generation technologies, yet modeling their distribution presents unique computational challenges. Of the plausible arrangements of atoms in a periodic lattice only a vanishingly small percentage are thermodynamically stable, which is a key i…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2024

From Molecules to Materials: Pre-training Large Generalizable Models for Atomic Property Prediction

ICLR 2024poster

Foundation models have been transformational in machine learning fields such as natural language processing and computer vision. Similar success in atomic property prediction has been limited due to the challenges of training effective models across multiple chemical domains. To address this, we int…

2022

Spherical Channels for Modeling Atomic Interactions

NeurIPS 2022accept

Modeling the energy and forces of atomic systems is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry with the potential to help address many of the world’s most pressing problems, including those related to energy scarcity and climate change. These calculations are traditionally performed using Dens…

2022

Towards Training Billion Parameter Graph Neural Networks for Atomic Simulations

ICLR 2022poster

Recent progress in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for modeling atomic simulations has the potential to revolutionize catalyst discovery, which is a key step in making progress towards the energy breakthroughs needed to combat climate change. However, the GNNs that have proven most effective for this t…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar