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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   A critical examination of compound stability predictions from machine-learned formation energies

   Bartel, Trewartha, Wang, Dunn, Jain and Ceder · npj Computational Materials · 2020

   The authors tested seven machine-learning formation-energy models on stability predictions using Materials Project DFT data, and report that accurate formation energies do not imply accurate stability predictions.

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   1. UncheckedSeven machine-learning models predicted formation energy well but compositional ones did poorly at predicting compound stability, in tests on Materials Project data.“By testing seven machine learning models for formation energy on stability predictions using the Materials Project database of DFT calculations for 85,014 unique chemical compositions, we show that while formation energies can indeed be predicted well, all compositional models perform poorly on pre…”
   2. UncheckedIn chemical spaces where few compositions form stable compounds, only the structural model tested could efficiently identify which materials are stable.“Most critically, in sparse chemical spaces where few stoichiometries have stable compounds, only the structural model is capable of efficiently detecting which materials are stable.”
   3. UncheckedMachine-learned models that predict formation energy accurately do not necessarily predict compound stability accurately, so stability should be tested directly.“This work demonstrates that accurate predictions of formation energy do not imply accurate predictions of stability, emphasizing the importance of assessing model performance on stability predictions, for which we provide a set of publicly available tests.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Clustering analysis of the ground-state structure of the vertex-cover problem

   Barthel and Hartmann · Physical Review E · 2004

   The authors numerically studied the structure of minimal vertex-cover solutions on random graphs, to compare with analytical predictions of a change in behaviour at connectivity c=e.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's numerical analyses of vertex-cover solutions on random graphs are all compatible with a structural change at connectivity c=e.“All results are compatible with a change at c=e.”
   2. UncheckedOn random graphs, vertex-cover solutions form few clusters at low connectivity, but cluster numbers slowly grow with system size at higher connectivity.“For small connectivities, the solutions are collected in a finite small number of clusters, while the number of cluster diverges slowly with system size for larger connectivities and replica symmetry breaking, but not 1-RSB, occurs.”