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ArticleACS macro letters2022

Leveraging Theory for Enhanced Machine Learning.

Debra J Audus, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost

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Article in ACS macro letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Machine Learning in Polymer Research.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Debra J AudusMaterials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5937-7721
Austin McDannaldMaterials Measurement Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3767-926X
Brian DeCostMaterials Measurement Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3459-5888

Funding

Intramural NIST DOC 9999-NIST
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The application of machine learning to the materials domain has traditionally struggled with two major challenges: a lack of large, curated data sets and the need to understand the physics behind the machine-learning prediction. The former problem is particularly acute in the polymers domain. Here we aim to simultaneously tackle these challenges through the incorporation of scientific knowledge, thus, providing improved predictions for smaller data sets, both under interpolation and extrapolation, and a degree of explainability. We focus on imperfect theories, as they are often readily available and easier to interpret. Using a system of a polymer in different solvent qualities, we explore numerous methods for incorporating theory into machine learning using different machine-learning models, including Gaussian process regression. Ultimately, we find that encoding the functional form of the theory performs best followed by an encoding of the numeric values of the theory.

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Machine LearningPolymersNormal DistributionSolventsPolymersSolvents

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PMID36018715
PMCPMC9912311

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