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ArticleScience advances2017

Machine learning unifies the modeling of materials and molecules.

Albert P Bartók, Sandip De, Carl Poelking, Noam Bernstein, James R Kermode, Gábor Csányi, Michele Ceriotti

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Article in Science advances, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers.

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7 authors.

Albert P BartókScientific Computing Department, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4347-8819
Sandip DeNational Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8434-3497
Carl PoelkingDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.
Noam BernsteinCenter for Materials Physics and Technology, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
James R KermodeWarwick Centre for Predictive Modelling, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6755-6271
Gábor CsányiEngineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8180-2034
Michele CeriottiNational Center for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2571-2832

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determining the stability of molecules and condensed phases is the cornerstone of atomistic modeling, underpinning our understanding of chemical and materials properties and transformations. We show that a machine-learning model, based on a local description of chemical environments and Bayesian statistical learning, provides a unified framework to predict atomic-scale properties. It captures the quantum mechanical effects governing the complex surface reconstructions of silicon, predicts the stability of different classes of molecules with chemical accuracy, and distinguishes active and inactive protein ligands with more than 99% reliability. The universality and the systematic nature of our framework provide new insight into the potential energy surface of materials and molecules.

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