PackFlow Generates Lattice-Aware Molecular Crystal Proposals
Researchers introduce PackFlow, a flow-matching framework for molecular crystal structure prediction, submitted Feb 23, 2026. PackFlow jointly samples heavy-atom Cartesian coordinates and unit-cell lattice parameters from molecular graphs and integrates with downstream relaxation and lattice-energy ranking. The paper also proposes physics alignment, a post-training RL stage using learned interatomic potentials to steer sampling toward low-energy basins, producing candidates that relax to lower-energy minima in blind-test evaluations.
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Novel, scalable flow-based CSP approach advances proposal generation; limited by arXiv preprint evaluation and single-source tests.
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