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12 claims from 10 papers

1. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds

   de Jong, Chen, Angsten et al. · Scientific Data · 2015

   The paper presents what it calls the largest database of calculated elastic properties of inorganic compounds, describing its methods, accuracy tests, format and ways of accessing it.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors' database of calculated elastic properties held full elastic information for 1,181 inorganic compounds when published, and was growing.“The database currently contains full elastic information for 1,181 inorganic compounds, and this number is growing steadily.”

2. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Accelerating materials property predictions using machine learning

   Pilania, Wang, Jiang, Rajasekaran and Ramprasad · Scientific Reports · 2013

   The authors train machine learning methods on quantum mechanical calculations for one-dimensional chain systems to predict material properties quickly, aiming to speed up the discovery of new materials.

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   1. UncheckedFingerprints built from a material's composition and structure, or its electron charge density, can give very fast and accurate property predictions.“It is shown that fingerprints based on either chemo-structural (compositional and configurational information) or the electronic charge density distribution can be used to make ultra-fast, yet accurate, property predictions.”

3. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Accelerated search for materials with targeted properties by adaptive design

   Xue, Balachandran, Hogden, Theiler, Xue and Lookman · Nature Communications · 2016

   The authors used an adaptive design strategy, coupled with experiments, to find NiTi-based shape memory alloys with very low thermal hysteresis, testing 36 compositions from about 800,000 possible ones.

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   1. UncheckedOf 36 NiTi-based alloy compositions the method predicted and the authors made, 14 had lower thermal hysteresis than any of the 22 starting alloys.“Of these, 14 had smaller Δ T than any of the 22 in the original data set.”

4. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Evaluating explorative prediction power of machine learning algorithms for materials discovery using k -fold forward cross-validation

   Xiong, Cui, Liu, Zhao, Hu and Hu · Computational Materials Science · 2019

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   1. UncheckedMachine learning models that score well under standard cross-validation have very low explorative power, according to the authors' k-fold forward cross-validation method.“Our results show that even though current machine learning models can achieve good results when evaluated with traditional CV, their explorative power is actually very low as shown by our proposed km FCV evaluation method and the proposed exploration accuracy.”

5. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Enhancing materials property prediction by leveraging computational and experimental data using deep transfer learning

   Jha, Choudhary, Tavazza et al. · Nature Communications · 2019

   The authors use deep transfer learning to combine large DFT-computed data sets, smaller DFT sets and experimental observations, building models that predict materials properties such as formation energy.

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   1. UncheckedA deep transfer learning model predicts formation energy from composition with a 0.07 eV/atom error on 1,643 experimental observations, near DFT's own error.“We build a highly accurate model for predicting formation energy of materials from their compositions; using an experimental data set of $$1,643$$ 1 , 643 observations, the proposed approach yields a mean absolute error (MAE) of $$0.07$$ 0.07 eV/atom, which is significantly better than existing mac…”

6. 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.”

7. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Developing an improved crystal graph convolutional neural network framework for accelerated materials discovery

   Park and Wolverton · Physical Review Materials · 2020

   The authors built an improved crystal graph neural network (iCGCNN) and used it to speed up computational searches for new stable materials, reporting better accuracy and a faster search than the original model.

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   1. UncheckedAn improved neural network guided a search for ThCr2Si2-type materials with a 31% success rate, 310 times an undirected search and 2.4 times the original model.“Second, when used to assist high-throughput search for materials in the ThCr2Si2 structure-type, iCGCNN exhibited a success rate of 31% which is 310 times higher than an undirected high-throughput search and 2.4 times higher than that of the original CGCNN.”

8. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

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

   CJ, A, Q, A, A and G · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2020

   The authors tested seven machine learning formation-energy models on stability predictions using Materials Project DFT data, finding compositional models perform poorly on stability while a structural model does better.

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   1. UncheckedMachine-learned models that predict formation energy accurately do not necessarily predict whether a compound is stable accurately.“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.”

9. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Data-driven discovery of 2D materials by deep generative models

   Lyngby and Thygesen · npj Computational Materials · 2022

   The authors trained a generative model on 2615 known 2D materials, generated thousands of new candidates, checked them with DFT, and added them to an open database, expanding the known 2D materials space.

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   1. UncheckedA generative model and systematic element substitution gave 2D materials with similar stability but very different structures and compositions.“We find that the generative model and lattice decoration approach are complementary and yield materials with similar stability properties but very different crystal structures and chemical compositions.”

10. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Leveraging language representation for materials exploration and discovery

    Qu, Xie, Ciesielski, Porter, Toberer and Ertekin · npj Computational Materials · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The contextual knowledge encoded in these language representations conveys information about material properties and structures, enabling both similarity analysis to recall relevant candidates based on a query material and multi-task learning to share inform…