Accurately predicting long-horizon molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories remains a significant challenge, as existing deep learning methods often struggle to retain fidelity over extended simulations.
To address these limitations, the researchers propose Graph Fourier Neural ODEs (GF-NODE), which integrates a graph Fourier transform for spatial frequency decomposition with a Neural ODE framework for continuous-time evolution.
GF-NODE decomposes molecular configurations into multiple spatial frequency modes, evolves the frequency components in time, and reconstructs the updated molecular geometry through an inverse graph Fourier transform.
Experimental results on challenging MD benchmarks demonstrate that GF-NODE achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while preserving essential geometrical features over extended simulations.