Text-guided flow matching enables sample-efficient crystal structure generation
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arXiv:2609.01076v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Crystal generators can now propose periodic structures, but their control interfaces remain poorly matched to the mixed descriptors used in materials design. Text provides a compact way to combine composition, symmetry, prototype and property cues, yet it has not been clear whether such information can steer flow-based crystal generation. Here we introduce TFMat, a text-conditioned flow-matching framework that uses structured materials language as a semantic prior for a CrystalFlow generator. Across Perov-5, Carbon-24 and MP-20 crystal
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- arXiv:2609.01076v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Crystal generators can now propose periodic structures, but their control interfaces remain poorly matched to the mixed descriptors used in materials design.
- Text provides a compact way to combine composition, symmetry, prototype and property cues, yet it has not been clear whether such information can steer flow-based crystal generation.
- Here we introduce TFMat, a text-conditioned flow-matching framework that uses structured materials language as a semantic prior for a CrystalFlow generator.
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