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44 claims from 31 papers, showing 1–20 of 31

1. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Generalized Neural-Network Representation of High-Dimensional Potential-Energy Surfaces

   Behler and Parrinello · Physical Review Letters · 2007

   The paper introduces a neural-network representation of DFT potential-energy surfaces that is much faster than DFT, and tests its accuracy on bulk silicon against empirical potentials and DFT.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors state that their neural-network method for modelling atomic energies is general and applies to all periodic and non-periodic systems.“The method is general and can be applied to all types of periodic and nonperiodic systems.”

2. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Graph Networks as a Universal Machine Learning Framework for Molecules and Crystals

   Chen, Ye, Zuo, Chen and Ong · Chemistry of Materials · 2019

   The authors build graph-network models (MEGNet) to predict properties of molecules and crystals, and report better accuracy than earlier ML models plus two strategies for coping with limited data.

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   1. UncheckedMEGNet models trained on about 60,000 Materials Project crystals predicted formation energies, band gaps and elastic moduli better than earlier ML models.“Similarly, we show that MEGNet models trained on $\sim 60,000$ crystals in the Materials Project substantially outperform prior ML models in the prediction of the formation energies, band gaps and elastic moduli of crystals, achieving better than DFT accuracy over a much larger data set.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper's MEGNet graph-network models beat earlier machine-learning models such as SchNet on 11 of the 13 properties in the QM9 molecule data set.“We demonstrate that the MEGNet models outperform prior ML models such as the SchNet in 11 out of 13 properties of the QM9 molecule data set.”

3. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Crystal Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for an Accurate and Interpretable Prediction of Material Properties

   Xie and Grossman · Physical Review Letters · 2018

   The authors build a crystal graph convolutional neural network that learns material properties directly from how atoms connect in a crystal, and that can also show which local environments drive those properties.

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   1. UncheckedA graph neural network trained on about 10,000 examples predicts eight DFT-calculated crystal properties with high accuracy across varied structures and compositions.“Our method provides a highly accurate prediction of density functional theory calculated properties for eight different properties of crystals with various structure types and compositions after being trained with $10^4$ data points.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors say their crystal graph neural network is interpretable, since contributions of local chemical environments to overall material properties can be extracted.“Further, our framework is interpretable because one can extract the contributions from local chemical environments to global properties.”

4. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   On representing chemical environments

   Bartók, Kondor and Cśanyi · Physical Review B · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that certain widely used descriptors that initially look quite different are specific cases of a general approach, in which a finite set of basis functions with increasing angular wave numbers are used to expand the atomic neighbourhood densit…

5. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   The Open Quantum Materials Database (OQMD): assessing the accuracy of DFT formation energies

   Kirklin, Saal, Meredig et al. · npj Computational Materials · 2015

   The paper presents the OQMD, a large open database of DFT calculations, and uses it to compare predicted formation energies with experiment and to assess the stability of known and hypothetical compounds.

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   1. Unchecked“In order to estimate how much error to attribute to the DFT calculations, we also examine deviation between different experimental measurements themselves where multiple sources are available, and find a surprisingly large mean absolute error of 0.082 eV/ato…
   2. UncheckedAcross 1,670 compounds, OQMD's DFT formation energies differ from experimental measurements by an apparent mean absolute error of 0.096 eV per atom.“The apparent mean absolute error between experimental measurements and our calculations is 0.096 eV/atom.”

6. 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.”

7. Materials Science › Enzyme Structure and Function

   Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data

   Burley, Berman, Bhikadiya et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2018

   The paper describes the Protein Data Bank as the single global archive of 3D biological macromolecule structures, covering its management, data format, deposition and validation systems, and future plans.

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   1. UncheckedThe PDB Core Archive holds atomic coordinates for over 144,000 models of proteins, DNA/RNA and their complexes, plus experimental data and metadata.“The PDB Core Archive houses 3D atomic coordinates of more than 144 000 structural models of proteins, DNA/RNA, and their complexes with metals and small molecules and related experimental data and metadata.”

8. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining

   Ward, Dunn, Faghaninia et al. · Computational Materials Science · 2018

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   1. UncheckedThe matminer software toolkit includes a module for making interactive plots that can be shared with others.“Finally, matminer provides a visualization module for producing interactive, shareable plots.”

9. 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

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   1. Unchecked“The database currently contains full elastic information for 1,181 inorganic compounds, and this number is growing steadily.”

10. Materials Science › Enzyme Structure and Function

    RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB.org): delivery of experimentally-determined PDB structures alongside one million computed structure models of proteins from artificial intelligence/machine learning

    Burley, Bhikadiya, Bi et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Every PDB structure and CSM is integrated weekly with related functional annotations from external biodata resources, providing up-to-date information for the entire corpus of 3D biostructure data freely available from RCSB.org with no usage limitations.”
    2. Unchecked“Within RCSB.org, PDB structures and the CSMs are clearly identified as to their provenance and reliability.”
    3. Unchecked“Both are fully searchable, and can be analyzed and visualized using the full complement of RCSB.org web portal capabilities.”

11. 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

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    1. Unchecked“Of these, 14 had smaller Δ T than any of the 22 in the original data set.”

12. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    SISSO: A compressed-sensing method for identifying the best low-dimensional descriptor in an immensity of offered candidates

    Ouyang, Curtarolo, Ahmetcik, Scheffler and Ghiringhelli · Physical Review Materials · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“SISSO (sure independence screening and sparsifying operator) tackles immense and correlated features spaces, and converges to the optimal solution from a combination of features relevant to the materials' property of interest.”
    2. Unchecked“In addition, SISSO gives stable results also with small training sets.”
    3. Unchecked“Accurate, predictive models are found in both cases.”

13. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Combinatorial screening for new materials in unconstrained composition space with machine learning

    Meredig, Agrawal, Kirklin et al. · Physical Review B · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The resulting model can predict the thermodynamic stability of arbitrary compositions without any other input and with six orders of magnitude less computer time than DFT.”
    2. Unchecked“We use this model to scan roughly 1.6 million candidate compositions for novel ternary compounds (${A}_{x}{B}_{y}{C}_{z}$), and predict 4500 new stable materials.”

14. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    ElemNet: Deep Learning the Chemistry of Materials From Only Elemental Composition

    Jha, Ward, Paul et al. · Scientific Reports · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we demonstrate that by using a deep learning approach, we can bypass such manual feature engineering requiring domain knowledge and achieve much better results, even with only a few thousand training samples.”

15. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Including crystal structure attributes in machine learning models of formation energies via Voronoi tessellations

    Ward, Liu, Krishna et al. · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The ML models created using this method have half the cross-validation error and similar training and evaluation speeds to models created with the Coulomb matrix and partial radial distribution function methods.”

16. 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. Unchecked“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 accurac…

17. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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…

18. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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).”

19. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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 c…
    2. Unchecked“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. Unchecked“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.”

20. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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.”