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AMGenC: Generating Charge Balanced Amorphous Materials

Yan Lin , Jilin Hu , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Morten M. Smedskjaer

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keywords amorphous materialsgenerative inverse designcharge balancemachine learning for materialscomposition generationdiffusion modelsmaterials discoveryproperty-conditioned generation

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AMGenC generates charge-balanced amorphous materials by centering element noise on charge balance and steering outputs with per-step soft projections plus a final discrete projection.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Amorphous materials consist of large disordered cells with hundreds to thousands of atoms, so trial-and-error design is inefficient. Generative models conditioned on target properties can propose candidates directly, yet their stochastic sampling routinely yields charge-unbalanced compositions that are physically invalid. AMGenC solves this by initializing generation with element noise centered near charge neutrality and then applying a soft projection after every step together with a final discrete projection to reach exact balance. Experiments on two amorphous datasets show the outputs stay aligned with the conditioning targets while every sample meets the balance requirement. This matters because charge neutrality is a basic validity filter that previously forced heavy post-processing or rejection of many candidates.

Core claim

AMGenC achieves the generation of charge balanced amorphous materials by employing an element noise that gives the generation process a starting point centered around charge balance, and the combination of a per-step soft projection and a final discrete projection for steering the elements toward exact charge balance throughout the generation, all with minimal additional computational overhead and without sacrificing inverse design accuracy, as shown by extensive experiments on two amorphous materials datasets.

What carries the argument

Element noise that centers the starting composition near charge neutrality, followed by per-step soft projection and a final discrete projection that together enforce exact charge balance during the generative steps.

If this is right

All generated samples satisfy exact charge neutrality by construction.
Only minimal extra computation is added during sampling.
Property alignment with conditioning inputs remains comparable to unconstrained models.
No separate filtering step is needed to discard invalid compositions.
The approach works across different amorphous materials datasets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same centering-plus-projection pattern could be adapted to enforce other conservation laws such as total valence or mass balance in related generative models.
Widespread use would cut the fraction of invalid candidates that must be discarded or repaired in automated materials pipelines.
Coupling the method with downstream molecular-dynamics relaxation would test whether the enforced balance also improves structural stability.
The noise-centering idea might generalize to crystalline inverse-design tasks where stoichiometry or oxidation-state constraints are the main failure mode.

Load-bearing premise

That the projections can force exact charge balance without substantially shifting the generated compositions away from the property targets the model was conditioned on.

What would settle it

Run AMGenC on a held-out test set of conditioning targets, compute the net charge of every generated composition, and compare property predictions to those from an unconstrained baseline; the claim fails if a sizable fraction of samples still carry nonzero net charge or if property errors increase markedly.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.27613 by Jilin Hu, Morten M. Smedskjaer, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, Yan Lin.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Illustration of how each component in AMGENC progressively reduces the charge residual during generation. (a)–(c): total charge Q(Eˆ 1) over generation steps as components are added cumulatively. (d): distribution of total charge before and after the final discrete projection (DP). 4.1 Conditional Flow Matching AMGENC uses flow-matching with linear interpolation paths. We define time t ∈ [0, 1], where t = … view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Hyperparameter sensitivity on MEG | E+CLi. B EGNN Architecture Given an input sample M = (L, X, E), the input graph G = (V, E) to the EGNN is composed of atoms in the sample as nodes in the node set V, and each edge in the edge set E connects a pair of atoms with distances less than a cutoff radius rcut. The distances are computed with periodic boundary conditions. The EGNN is composed of L equivariant lay… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: EGNN architectural hyperparameter sensitivity on the MEG view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Property distributions of training data and samples generated by view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Partial radial distribution functions g(r) for a-SiO2 samples. Solid: training samples. Dashed: samples generated by AMGENC under the (a) a-SiO2 | G configuration and (b) a-SiO2 | RSD configuration. entirely. This can accelerate the discovery of amorphous materials for applications such as energy storage, thermal management, and advanced materials, where efficient exploration of the vast design space is im… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Partial radial distribution functions g(r) for element–oxygen pairs in the MEG samples. Solid: training samples. Dashed: samples generated by AMGENC under the MEG | E+CLi configuration. 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 0 2 4 6 8 r (Å) n(r) Si P Al Li Ti Ca Ba Be K Zn view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Cumulative coordination number n(r) of oxygen neighbors around each cation type in the MEG samples. Solid: training samples. Dashed: samples generated by AMGENC under the MEG | E+CLi configuration. Generalizability. While the proposed framework for enforcing hard constraints on discrete outputs may apply to broader generative modeling problems, we evaluate it only in the context of amorphous materials gene… view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Amorphous (disordered) materials are solids that have shown great potential in various domains, including energy storage, thermal management, and advanced materials. Unlike crystalline materials that can be described by unit cells containing a few to hundreds of atoms, amorphous materials require larger simulation cells with at least hundreds to thousands of atoms. To advance the design of amorphous materials with desired properties and facilitate the exploration of their vast design space, generative inverse design has emerged as a promising approach. It aims to directly output materials with properties closely aligned with the desired ones using probabilistic generative models conditioned on desired properties, which can be more resource efficient than the traditional trial-and-error approach. However, due to the inherent stochasticity of probabilistic generative models, when element assignments are unconstrained, a large portion of generated materials may be charge unbalanced, and no existing methods can effectively mitigate this limitation. In this work, we propose AMGenC, a new generative inverse design method for amorphous materials that can guarantee the generation of charge balanced samples, with minimal additional computational overhead and without sacrificing inverse design accuracy. AMGenC achieves this through an element noise that gives the generation process a starting point centered around charge balance, and the combination of a per-step soft projection and a final discrete projection for steering the elements toward exact charge balance throughout the generation. We perform extensive experiments on two amorphous materials datasets. Experimental results provide evidence that AMGenC achieves its design goal.

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AMGenC adds a charge-centered noise start plus soft-then-discrete projections to force exact balance in amorphous generators, and the experiments suggest it works with little cost.

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The main takeaway is that this method fixes a practical headache in generative inverse design for amorphous materials. Probabilistic models often spit out charge-imbalanced samples because of their randomness, and the authors show a way to steer them back to exact balance without wrecking the property matching or adding much compute. They do it by initializing the element noise around a balanced composition and then applying a soft projection during each generation step followed by a final discrete projection to lock in neutrality.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces AMGenC, a generative inverse-design method for amorphous materials that guarantees charge-balanced outputs. It initializes generation near charge balance via element noise, then applies per-step soft projections during the generative process and a final discrete projection to enforce exact balance. The central claim is that this is achieved with minimal computational overhead and without degrading the model's ability to match conditioned target properties, as evidenced by experiments on two amorphous materials datasets.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work would address a practical barrier in applying probabilistic generative models to amorphous materials design, where charge imbalance is a common failure mode. The combination of initialization noise and staged projections offers a lightweight constraint mechanism that could generalize to other physical invariants in materials generation. The paper's framing as an algorithmic procedure with empirical validation is a strength, though the absence of reported quantitative metrics limits assessment of its practical impact.

major comments (2)

[Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The manuscript states that 'extensive experiments on two amorphous materials datasets' provide evidence of minimal overhead and no accuracy loss, yet supplies no quantitative results—such as charge-balance success rates before/after projection, wall-clock overhead ratios, property-prediction MAE or R² values relative to unprojected baselines, or ablation studies isolating the soft vs. discrete projection contributions. Without these numbers or details on how property-matching accuracy was measured post-projection, the central empirical claim cannot be evaluated.
[§3] §3 (Method): The description of the per-step soft projection and final discrete projection lacks an explicit mathematical formulation (e.g., no equation defining the projection operator, its dependence on the current element distribution, or a bound on the perturbation it introduces to the learned conditional distribution). It is therefore unclear whether the projections are guaranteed to preserve the generative model's accuracy or merely asserted to do so empirically.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract refers to 'element noise' without defining its distribution or variance schedule; a brief clarification in the introduction or §3 would improve readability.
[§2 or §3] No mention is made of how charge balance is formally defined (e.g., total valence electron count or oxidation-state summation) or whether the method handles variable oxidation states; adding this definition would aid reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's detailed review and recommendation for major revision. The comments identify important areas for clarification and additional detail. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested information and mathematical formulations.

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Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The manuscript states that 'extensive experiments on two amorphous materials datasets' provide evidence of minimal overhead and no accuracy loss, yet supplies no quantitative results—such as charge-balance success rates before/after projection, wall-clock overhead ratios, property-prediction MAE or R² values relative to unprojected baselines, or ablation studies isolating the soft vs. discrete projection contributions. Without these numbers or details on how property-matching accuracy was measured post-projection, the central empirical claim cannot be evaluated.

Authors: We agree that the current manuscript presents the experimental outcomes at a high level without the specific quantitative metrics needed for full evaluation. While the experiments on the two datasets supported the claims of minimal overhead and preserved accuracy, explicit numbers and ablations were not reported. In the revised manuscript, we will add tables detailing charge-balance success rates before and after each projection stage, wall-clock overhead ratios relative to the unprojected baseline, property-prediction MAE and R² values for both AMGenC and the baseline, and ablation results isolating the soft versus discrete projection effects. We will also describe the exact procedure used to measure property-matching accuracy after projection. revision: yes
Referee: [§3] §3 (Method): The description of the per-step soft projection and final discrete projection lacks an explicit mathematical formulation (e.g., no equation defining the projection operator, its dependence on the current element distribution, or a bound on the perturbation it introduces to the learned conditional distribution). It is therefore unclear whether the projections are guaranteed to preserve the generative model's accuracy or merely asserted to do so empirically.

Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this omission in the method description. The text currently explains the projections conceptually but does not supply formal equations or perturbation analysis. In the revised manuscript, we will introduce explicit mathematical definitions: an equation for the per-step soft projection operator (a continuous adjustment of element probabilities based on the running charge deviation) and for the final discrete projection (a minimal integer reassignment to enforce exact neutrality). We will also provide a short derivation or bound on the perturbation to the learned conditional distribution and reference the empirical results showing that accuracy is effectively unchanged, thereby clarifying how the projections guarantee charge balance with negligible impact on the generative model. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper introduces AMGenC as an algorithmic procedure for generative inverse design of amorphous materials, relying on element noise initialization centered near charge balance combined with per-step soft projections and a final discrete projection to enforce exact charge balance. These mechanisms are defined explicitly as part of the method and their effectiveness (minimal overhead, preserved inverse-design accuracy) is asserted via experimental results on two datasets rather than any mathematical derivation. No load-bearing steps reduce by construction to self-referential definitions, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains; the abstract and described approach contain no equations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes that collapse into their own inputs. The central claim is therefore an empirical engineering contribution whose validity rests on external validation, not internal circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review performed on abstract only; full model architecture, training objective, projection implementation details, and dataset statistics are unavailable. No explicit free parameters or invented physical entities are named in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Charge neutrality is a necessary physical constraint for valid amorphous material structures.
The entire motivation rests on the premise that charge-unbalanced outputs are invalid and must be prevented.

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