Materials Graph Library (MatGL), an open-source graph deep learning library for materials science and chemistry
Abstract Graph deep learning models, which incorporate a natural inductive bias for atomic structures, are of immense interest in materials science and chemistry. Here, we introduce the Materials Graph Library (MatGL), an open-source graph deep learning library for materials science and chemistry. Built on top of the popular Deep Graph Library (DGL) and Python Materials Genomics (Pymatgen) packages, MatGL is designed to be an extensible “batteries-included” library for developing advanced model architectures for materials property predictions and interatomic potentials. At present, MatGL has efficient implementations for both invariant and equivariant graph deep learning models, including the Materials 3-body Graph Network (M3GNet), MatErials Graph Network (MEGNet), Crystal Hamiltonian Graph Network (CHGNet), TensorNet and SO3Net architectures. MatGL also provides several pre-trained foundation potentials (FPs) with coverage of the entire periodic table, and property prediction models for out-of-box usage, benchmarking and fine-tuning. Finally, MatGL integrates with PyTorch Lightning to enable efficient model training.
Authors
- Shyue Ping Ong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5726-2587)
- Santiago Miret (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5121-3853)
- Gerbrand Ceder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9275-3605)
- Luis Barroso-Luque (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6453-9545)
- Marcel Nassar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7628-8819)
- Atul C. Thakur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3334-7943)
- Tsz Wai Ko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0802-9559)
- Eric Hsien Lung Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1438-8258)
- Ji Qi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5808-9931)
- Bowen Deng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4085-381X)
- Runze Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3116-8137)
- Amiya Kanta Mishra
Institutions
- Intel (United States) (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Computational Materials
- Published
- 2025-08-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-025-01742-y
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.70
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- Office of Science
- Basic Energy Sciences