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TRACE: Spatiotemporal Contact Memory Graph Network Simulator for Granular Dynamics

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Learned graph simulators provide an efficient alternative to high-fidelity solvers for granular dynamics. However, granular motion depends strongly on inter-granular contact history, which is difficult to preserve when particle contacts form, break, and rearrange. Existing simulators mainly store temporal information in node features or node-level memory. Here we introduce TRACE, a graph-network simulator that stores interaction history directly on contact edges. Each edge maintains a persistent memory updated by attention-based message passing and a gated recurrent unit, while an edge-identit

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