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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 145, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4964093
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- Center for Scientific Computing from the CNSI
- MRL: an NSF MRSEC [DMR-1121053]
- NSF [CNS-0960316]
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We present an application of the boosted regression tree algorithm for predicting ground state energies of molecules made up of C, H, N, O, P, and S (CHNOPS). The PubChem chemical compound database has been incorporated to construct a dataset of 16 242 molecules, whose electronic ground state energies have been computed using density functional theory. This dataset is used to train the boosted regression tree algorithm, which allows a computationally efficient and accurate prediction of molecular ground state energies. Predictions from boosted regression trees are compared with neural network regression, a widely used method in the literature, and shown to be more accurate with significantly reduced computational cost. The performance of the regression model trained using the CHNOPS set is also tested on a set of distinct molecules that contain additional Cl and Si atoms. It is shown that the learning algorithms lead to a rich and diverse possibility of applications in molecular discovery and materials informatics. Published by AIP Publishing.
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