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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 128, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0012407
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1542776, ACI-1440547, ACI-1053575, DMS-1440415]
- Texas Advanced Computing Center [TG-DMR050028N, TG-DMR140143, TG-DMR150006]
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We present a machine learning approach for accurately predicting formation energies of binary compounds in the context of crystal structure predictions. The success of any machine learning model depends significantly on the choice of representation used to encode the relevant physical information into machine-learnable data. We test different representation schemes based on partial radial and angular distribution functions (RDF+ADF) on Al-Ni and Cd-Te structures generated using our genetic algorithm for structure prediction. We observe a remarkable improvement in predictive accuracy upon transitioning from global to atom-centered representations, resulting in a threefold decrease in prediction errors. We show that a support vector regression model using a combination of atomic radial and angular distribution functions performs best at the formation energy prediction task, providing small root mean squared errors of 3.9meV/atom and 10.9meV/atom for Al-Ni and Cd-Te, respectively. We test the performance of our models against common traditional descriptors and find that RDF- and ADF-based representations significantly outperform many of those in the prediction of formation energies. The high accuracy of predictions makes our machine learning models great candidates for the exploration of energy landscapes.
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