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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   A general-purpose machine learning framework for predicting properties of inorganic materials

   Ward, Agrawal, Choudhary and Wolverton · npj Computational Materials · 2016

   The authors built a general machine learning framework for predicting properties of inorganic materials, and show it on crystalline and amorphous materials, including band gap energy and glass-forming ability.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors' method predicts material properties using a chemically diverse set of attributes plus a new way of grouping similar materials to improve accuracy.“Our method works by using a chemically diverse list of attributes, which we demonstrate are suitable for describing a wide variety of properties, and a novel method for partitioning the data set into groups of similar materials in order to boost the predictive accuracy.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors show their machine learning method can predict varied properties of crystalline and amorphous materials, including band gap energy and glass-forming ability.“In this manuscript, we demonstrate how this new method can be used to predict diverse properties of crystalline and amorphous materials, such as band gap energy and glass-forming ability.”

2. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   The Open Materials 2024 (OMat24) inorganic materials dataset and models

   Barros-Luque, Shuaibi, Fu et al. · Nature Computational Science · 2026

   The paper presents OMat24, an open dataset of over 110 million density functional theory calculations, and reports that models trained on it perform strongly on materials benchmarks.

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   1. UncheckedModels trained on the OMat24 dataset top the Matbench-Discovery leaderboard, with stability F1 scores above 0.9 and formation energy error near 20 meV per atom.“Machine learning interatomic potential models trained on OMat24 achieve leading performance on the Matbench-Discovery leaderboard, surpassing previous models with F1 scores above 0.9 for stability and approximately 20 meV per atom accuracy for formation energy.”
   2. UncheckedModels trained on the OMat24 dataset show high accuracy on newly developed benchmarks for predicting thermal conductivity and phonons.“Models trained on OMat24 also exhibit high accuracy in newly developed thermal conductivity and phonon prediction task benchmarks.”
   3. UncheckedThe authors say OMat24's more varied data corrects a systematic 'softening' underprediction of energies, forces and phonons seen in models trained on less diverse data.“We show that OMat24's diversity corrects the consistent softening bias of prior models trained on less diverse datasets, which systematically underpredicted energy, forces and derivative properties such as phonons.”