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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   A strategy to apply machine learning to small datasets in materials science

   Zhang and Ling · npj Computational Materials · 2018

   The paper studies how small materials datasets limit machine learning models, and proposes adding a crude property estimate to the features to improve predictions without raising model complexity.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper states that data size affects a model's precision only through the model's degrees of freedom, not directly, so precision and degrees of freedom become linked.“Instead of affecting the model precision directly, the effect of data size is mediated by the degree of freedom (DoF) of model, resulting in the phenomenon of association between precision and DoF.”

2. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Representation of compounds for machine-learning prediction of physical properties

   Seko, Hayashi, Nakayama, Takahashi and Tanaka · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

   The authors generate systematic descriptors from simple elemental and structural information and use them to build machine-learning models of cohesive energy, lattice thermal conductivity and melting temperature.

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   1. UncheckedA kernel ridge model predicted DFT cohesive energies of about 18000 compounds with an error of 0.041 eV/atom, near the 0.043 eV/atom chemical accuracy.“As a result, we obtain a kernel ridge prediction model with a prediction error of 0.041 eV/atom, which is close to the "chemical accuracy" of 1 kcal/mol (0.043 eV/atom).”