OMatG-flash: An All-Atom Flow Map with Reinforce Adjoint Matching for Scalable Materials Discovery

Thomas Egg, Harry Winston Sullivan, Ellad B. Tadmor, Stefano Martiniani

The discovery of novel inorganic materials drives technological breakthroughs in critical fields such as computing and energy storage. Generative AI has promised to accelerate the materials discovery pipeline, but state-of-the-art flow and diffusion models remain bottlenecked by the cost of proposing candidate materials. To address this, we introduce OMatG-flash, an all-atom flow map for inorganic crystal structure prediction (CSP) and de novo generation (DNG). OMatG-flash is a Pareto-optimal inference engine for materials, sampling candidate materials with an order of magnitude fewer inference steps and less wall-clock time than existing flow and diffusion models while demonstrating benchmark performance on par with the state-of-the-art. To enable post-training fine-tuning we apply Reinforce Adjoint Matching to flow maps, further improving match rates and RMSE on the unconditional CSP task. OMatG-flash showcases the potential of flow maps to accelerate generation of high-quality candidate inorganic materials and demonstrates a step forward in sample throughput necessary for data-hungry materials discovery workflows.