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Learning to Make Chemical Predictions: the Interplay of Feature Representation, Data, and Machine Learning Methods.

Mojtaba Haghighatlari, Jie Li, Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh, Yuchen Liu, Xingyi Guan, Teresa Head-Gordon

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6 authors.

Mojtaba HaghighatlariKenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jie LiKenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Farnaz Heidar-ZadehKenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Yuchen LiuKenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Xingyi GuanKenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Teresa Head-GordonKenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Funding

High Accuracy Computational Methods for Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyU01GM121667 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI HEAD-GORDON, MARTIN PAUL, HEAD-GORDON, TERESA L. · 2017 to 2020
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NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM121667
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently supervised machine learning has been ascending in providing new predictive approaches for chemical, biological and materials sciences applications. In this Perspective we focus on the interplay of machine learning method with the chemically motivated descriptors and the size and type of data sets needed for molecular property prediction. Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance chemical shift prediction as an example, we demonstrate that success is predicated on the choice of feature extracted or real-space representations of chemical structures, whether the molecular property data is abundant and/or experimentally or computationally derived, and how these together will influence the correct choice of popular machine learning methods drawn from deep learning, random forests, or kernel methods.

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PMID32695924
PMCPMC7373218

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