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ED-CSP: Crystal Structure Prediction from Electron Diffraction

Germain Poloudenny Arnaud Demorti\`ere Ya\"el Fr\'egier
Aug 2026
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Recovering a periodic 3D crystal structure from sparse, unindexed electron diffraction (ED) observations is a challenging generative inverse problem. Existing ED-based learning methods mainly predict crystallographic labels, reconstruct structures from indexed reflections, or retrieve candidates from finite structure libraries. Here, we introduce ED-CSP, a machine learning framework that predicts crystal structures from chemical composition, atom count, and multiple detector-plane ED spot sets. ED-CSP combines a relational set encoder, permutation-invariant multi-view aggregation, and a periodic flow generator to jointly predict lattice parameters and fractional atomic coordinates. To train the model, we construct ED-CS, a dataset of 4.85 million simulated multi-view ED crystal structures, deduplicated across seven materials repositories and filtered to exclude CHILI-100K overlaps. On 2,075 held-out CHILI-100K materials, ED-CSP trained only on CHILI achieves a structural match rate of 57.49% MR@5, outperforming PXRDGen (52.92%), a state-of-the-art crystal structure prediction model conditioned on powder X-ray diffraction. Scaling training data further improves performance: initializing from a one-million-structure precursor raises MR@5 to 66.27%. On 1,024 compositions absent from the training retrieval library, the model still achieves 53.52% MR@5, demonstrating true generative capability beyond exact-formula retrieval. Replacing target ED observations with diffraction from non-isomorphic structures of identical composition decreases MR@5 by 22.09 percentage points, confirming that predictions depend on the input diffraction patterns rather than composition alone. ED-CSP and ED-CS establish a benchmark for generative crystal structure prediction from sparse ED observations and provide a foundation for future transfer to experimental data.

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