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This paper sets out to show that machine-learned interatomic potentials can be scaled to large datasets without hard-coding rotational symmetries or energy conservation, and that such unconstrained models match or beat equivariant, symmetry
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load-bearing objection Useful scaling study with a real result—unconstrained 730M-parameter PET matches equivariant SOTA on matbench—but the abstract's 'superior in accuracy and speed' rests on a SPICE comparison that is not matched (3x epochs, borrowed timings), so the strong form of the claim is not yet established. the 4 major comments →
Pushing the limits of unconstrained machine-learned interatomic potentials
The pith
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
Fully unconstrained architectures — no hard-coded rotation symmetry, and optionally direct-force outputs — can be scaled to large, diverse datasets and match or exceed state-of-the-art equivariant neural networks in accuracy while running faster at inference. The demonstration uses a transformer-based graph neural network scaled to 730M parameters on materials data and 190M parameters on molecular data, reaching competitive results on discovery and molecular benchmarks, with benchmark numbers reported after rotational symmetrization. Conservative unconstrained models are safe for geometry optimization and phonons when symmetry detection is loosened or predictions are rotationally averaged. N
What carries the argument
The central object is PET, a graph neural network that processes each atom's neighborhood as a set of edge tokens through a transformer without equivariant features. For scale, the paper quadruples node features relative to edge features, carries node features across layers, and uses modern transformer components (RMSNorm, SwiGLU, pre-normalization) and a smooth adaptive cutoff, reaching 730M parameters at low inference cost. Rotational invariance is learned from data augmentation during training; at inference it can be restored approximately by averaging over a Lebedev grid of rotations, projecting forces onto a known space group, or loosening symmetry-detection tolerances. A second head em
Load-bearing premise
The load-bearing premise is the informal estimate that a rotationally unconstrained model can learn rotational invariance from roughly 20,000 orientation samples on a sphere of radius about 4 Å at 0.1 Å resolution, and that a low-order Lebedev grid at inference suppresses symmetry breaking enough for geometry optimization and phonons.
What would settle it
Train the same architecture on the same large datasets but limit rotational augmentation to a single axis, then evaluate on test structures rotated around an orthogonal axis. A sharp force-error degradation would confirm the paper's estimate that roughly 20,000 dense orientation samples are needed to learn rotational invariance; little degradation would falsify it, implying the model relies on other inductive biases. A practical counterpart: on a perfectly symmetric BCC titanium cell from a trained conservative model, measure the residual forces that should vanish under the space group without
If this is right
- Unconstrained models are viable at scale: a 730M-parameter materials model and a 190M-parameter molecular model reach state-of-the-art benchmark accuracy, in several cases exceeding equivariant baselines.
- Inference is faster: avoiding equivariant operations and using direct-force heads gives a 2–3x speedup, which matters for long molecular dynamics runs; the extra training epochs needed from scratch are offset by cheaper per-epoch evaluation.
- Fine-tuning transfers well: a model pre-trained on a large open materials dataset can be fine-tuned to a much smaller dataset in fewer than 1/20th of the epochs needed from scratch, roughly halving validation errors.
- Static workflows can be made reliable: geometry optimization works with unconstrained models, and symmetry breaking can even help an unstable high-symmetry cell escape to a lower-energy structure; phonon calculations are safe with the conservative model when the Hessian is symmetrized and central finite differences are used.
- Non-conservative forces are not a free lunch: despite comparable test-set accuracy, direct-force models systematically trail on downstream tasks such as phonon-derived properties and elastic constants, so the paper positions them as pretraining engines or partners in multiple-time-stepping dynamics.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- If rotational invariance is genuinely learned from orientation diversity in data, the accuracy gap between equivariant and unconstrained architectures may close further as datasets grow, making dataset design — not architecture — the dominant factor; the paper leaves this scaling prediction implicit.
- A direct test of the paper's learnability estimate would be to train the same architecture with rotational augmentation restricted to a single axis and evaluate on rotations around an orthogonal axis; a sharp degradation would confirm the ~20,000-orientation estimate, while little degradation would point to other inductive biases.
- The hybrid workflow suggested by the results — non-conservative head for pretraining and most force evaluations, conservative head for static and vibrational properties — is a natural next benchmark to quantify energy drift and computational savings on realistic molecular dynamics.
- The symmetry-breaking that lets an unstable BCC titanium cell relax toward close-packed structures could be turned into a feature for automated structure search, where exactly equivariant models sometimes get trapped in high-symmetry metastable states.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The paper asks whether machine-learned interatomic potentials that do not enforce rotational equivariance or energy conservation can be scaled to large, diverse datasets and still match or beat physically constrained, equivariant models. The authors introduce a scaled-up version of the PET architecture and train models on MPtrj, subsampled Alexandria, OMat24, SPICE, and OMol-1. They benchmark these models on matbench-discovery, LAMBench, MADBench, and SPICE, and they test geometry optimization and phonon workflows. The central claim is that fully unconstrained models can be trained at scale and reach accuracy on par with state-of-the-art equivariant architectures, while offering competitive inference speed; they also argue that rotational symmetry breaking can be corrected at inference time by SO(3) averaging. The manuscript is candid about cases where non-conservative, direct-force models underperform, particularly for phonons and elastic constants.
Significance. If the central claim is established, this is a significant result for the MLIP community. It suggests that expensive equivariant constraints may be unnecessary at scale, enabling simpler, faster architectures without sacrificing accuracy. The paper also provides open-source models and reproducible workflows, which is a strength. The material-benchmark results and the honest reporting of non-conservative failure modes are valuable. The main uncertainty is whether the headline 'superior in accuracy and speed' holds under matched training budgets and controlled timing comparisons; the current evidence supports 'on par under favorable evaluation choices' more than it supports a general superiority claim.
major comments (4)
- [Sec. IV B a, Table II, Fig. 3] The claim that unconstrained models are 'superior in accuracy and speed' rests heavily on the SPICE comparison, but the comparison is not matched. PET-L was trained for 300 epochs, three times the number reported for eSEN, and the eSEN accuracies are taken from Ref. [31] rather than re-evaluated. Table II reports a single run with no seed variation or error bars. The statement that the two models required 'around the same amount of compute to train' is inferred from inference timings, not measured wall-clock training time. This is load-bearing for the abstract's superiority claim. Please either run eSEN with the same training budget under controlled conditions, report PET-L at the eSEN epoch budget, or explicitly restrict the claim to 'can match' with the unequal budget stated as a caveat.
- [Sec. IV B b, App. F, Fig. 3] The accuracy-speed Pareto front is not a controlled measurement. Appendix F states that eSEN timings are taken from Ref. [31], while PET and MACE timings are evaluated by the authors, with PET additionally using torchscript compilation. The manuscript argues that differences are minimal, but a Pareto plot that mixes measurement setups does not establish a speed advantage. Please provide timings for eSEN, MACE, and PET on the same hardware and software stack, or remove eSEN from the timing comparison and restrict the speed claim accordingly.
- [Sec. IV A b, Table I, Table VI, App. H] The matbench-discovery headline comparison uses evaluation choices that favor the proposed models. All results in Table I are reported after SO(3) rotational averaging, while baselines from the leaderboard may not use this post-processing. In addition, Table VI and Appendix H show that central finite differences and displacement size materially affect the phonon metric κSRME for non-equivalent models (e.g., 0.157 at 0.01 Å versus 0.110 at 0.05 Å). If leaderboard baselines were evaluated with forward differences and no averaging, Table I is not an apples-to-apples comparison. Please report raw and averaged metrics side by side, specify the evaluation protocol for every baseline, and avoid ranking conclusions that depend on protocol choices.
- [Sec. V, Table V, Table VI] The phrase 'unconstrained models can be superior in accuracy and speed' is broader than the paper's own evidence. The non-conservative direct-force heads consistently underperform conservative models on static workflows: κSRME is 0.197–0.216 for non-conservative versus 0.119 for conservative PET-OAM, and elastic moduli are markedly worse (Table IX). The paper's nuanced discussion correctly recommends non-conservative models primarily as pretraining or multiple-time-stepping components. The abstract and introduction should be aligned with that nuance, so that 'unconstrained' clearly refers to rotationally unconstrained conservative models when accuracy on static tasks is claimed.
minor comments (5)
- [Sec. II A c] The displayed locality equation appears garbled: the same term V({r_i,a_i}_{i≠n}) is subtracted twice, and the text's mathematical rendering is hard to follow. Please correct the formula so that the near-sightedness condition is stated cleanly.
- [Table I] The model listed as 'PET' in Table I is not fully specified in the table caption. Please state which checkpoint (PET-OAM conservative, with or without SO(3) averaging) is used, and whether the other entries are reproduced from the leaderboard or re-evaluated with the same protocol.
- [Sec. III A c] The learnability estimate of ~20,000 orientation samples assumes a 0.1 Å resolution and a 4 Å environment radius. This is a heuristic with no sensitivity analysis. It is not the main empirical claim, but the manuscript should label it as an order-of-magnitude argument rather than a quantitative bound.
- [Sec. IV A a, Fig. 2] The text says the stable high-temperature phase of Ti is BCC but that it is stabilized by entropic effects and static calculations find HCP preferred. This is physically coherent, but the wording is easy to misread. Please rephrase to distinguish static enthalpy from free energy.
- [App. F] The footnote about different GPU power settings and torchscript compilation is appropriate, but the main-text sentence 'the two models required around the same amount of compute' should be flagged as an inference, not a measurement, in the main text as well.
Circularity Check
No construction-level circularity; the central claims rest on external benchmark comparisons, with only fairness/protocol caveats (unequal epochs, borrowed timings, post-hoc displacement choice) that are not circularity.
full rationale
The paper's derivation chain is empirical rather than analytical: unconstrained PET models are trained on large datasets and evaluated on externally defined benchmarks (matbench-discovery, SPICE, LAMBench) against externally reported models. No equation reduces to a fitted parameter, no target metric is a renaming of a training loss, and no 'uniqueness theorem' is imported from same-author work. The rotational-learnability estimate in Sec. III A c is a heuristic about data augmentation, not an input to the benchmark accuracies, and Table V explicitly reports raw versus SO(3)-averaged results. Same-group citations (Refs. [9], [19], [32], [50]) supply architecture and methodological priors, but they are not load-bearing in the sense of forcing the conclusion: the accuracy comparisons in Tables I, II, and VII include external baselines, and the self-cited MADBench is only one of several evaluations. The manuscript itself flags the main evaluation caveats: Sec. IV B a says PET-L was trained for 'three times the number of epochs reported by eSEN' and that eSEN training times are not available; App. F says 'the eSEN timings are taken from Ref.[31]' rather than re-measured; App. C b shows the finite-difference displacement was varied and 'is crucial for non-equivariant models', a post-hoc sensitivity choice rather than a fitted prediction; App. D limits LAMBench to 'qualitative model assessment' due to inconsistent DFT settings; App. G concedes models 'would benefit from additional training.' These are correctness/fairness limitations that weaken the specific 'superior in accuracy and speed' headline, but none exhibits the required reduction of a predicted quantity to its own input. Therefore the appropriate finding is no significant circularity, with a small nonzero score reflecting minor self-citation and protocol-selection concerns rather than load-bearing circularity.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
free parameters (6)
- Architecture hyperparameters (edge features, GNN layers, attention layers) =
OAM: 640/5/3; SPICE-L: 512/3/2; OMat-XS..XL: 128/2/1 .. 640/5/3
- Adaptive cutoff target neighbor number n̄ =
40 for OAM; 8–40 for OMat size series
- Loss weights and Huber thresholds =
E/F/SV weights 0.01/1/0.01 for OAM-NC and 1/1/1 for conservative; Huber thresholds 0.003–0.05
- Learning-rate schedule and batch parameters =
warmup 10%; max LR 2e-4/1e-4/5e-6; batch 128–2048; max 350 atoms/batch
- Training durations =
OAM: 10+5+1 epochs; SPICE: 300 epochs; eSEN baseline used ~100 (PET used 3x)
- Evaluation hyperparameters: SO(3) averaging, finite-difference displacement, symprec =
Lebedev L=3; displacement 0.05 Å; symprec 0.01/0.1 Å
axioms (6)
- domain assumption DFT labels in MPtrj, sAlexandria, OMat24, and SPICE are sufficiently accurate and consistent to serve as ground truth for training and evaluation
- domain assumption Locality/nearsightedness permits finite-cutoff message passing with cutoffs 4.5–10 Å
- domain assumption Rotational symmetry can be learned from roughly 2×10^4 rotation samples at 0.1 Å resolution
- domain assumption Benchmark metrics (DAF, κ_SRME, MAE, LAMBench scores) are valid proxies for practical MLIP utility
- domain assumption Inference-time O(3)/SO(3) averaging and force/Hessian symmetrization recover physical observables
- standard math Standard ML training assumptions: automatic differentiation, neural network expressivity, and stochastic optimization convergence
read the original abstract
Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are increasingly used to replace computationally demanding electronic-structure calculations to model matter at the atomic scale. The most commonly used model architectures are constrained to fulfill a number of physical laws exactly, from geometric symmetries to energy conservation. Evidence is mounting that relaxing some of these constraints can be beneficial to the efficiency and (somewhat surprisingly) accuracy of MLIPs, even though care should be taken to avoid qualitative failures associated with the breaking of physical symmetries. Given the recent trend of scaling up models to larger numbers of parameters and training samples, a very important question is how unconstrained MLIPs behave in this limit. Here we investigate this issue, showing that -- when trained on large datasets -- unconstrained models can be superior in accuracy and speed when compared to physically constrained models. We assess these models both in terms of benchmark accuracy and in terms of usability in practical scenarios, focusing on static simulation workflows such as geometry optimization and lattice dynamics. We conclude that accurate unconstrained models can be applied with confidence, especially since simple inference-time modifications can be used to recover observables that are consistent with the relevant physical symmetries.
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