PaddleMaterials: An End-to-End Deep Learning Toolkit for Materials Science

arXiv:2611.03154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning supports materials design, atomistic simulation and experimental characterization, yet models and workflows remain fragmented. We present PaddleMaterials, an open-source framework integrating heterogeneous materials-learning tasks while preserving task-specific representations and scientific semantics. It unifies data processing, training, evaluation, pretrained-model management and workflows across six task classes: property prediction, structure generation, machine-learning interatomic potentials, electronic-structure fields, spectrum elucidation and microscopy image processing. Task interfaces record physical quantities, units, aggregation conventions and references, making cross-task composition verifiable. A shared compiler backend enables switching from dynamic-graph to compiled execution through one setting, using graph optimization, operator fusion and hardware-targeted code generation without changing model definitions. Across 65 model instances in 11 groups, compiled execution accelerated every instance in eight groups, with group median speedups of 11%-224% and group maximum speedups of 11%-336%. Case studies on LiMnO2 and toluene link structure generation or spectrum elucidation, interatomic-potential relaxation, property prediction and electron-density prediction, using same-geometry density functional theory (DFT) calculations as references. For LiMnO2, predicted formation energies for generated and relaxed structures differed from same-geometry PBE+U references by at most 7 meV per atom, while the computational cost of model steps was less than one-twentieth of a DFT single-point calculation. PaddleMaterials extends unified materials workflows beyond conventional property, potential and structure-generation tasks while supporting verifiable cross-task operations and compiled execution.