Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 121, Issue 46, Pages 8939-8954Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b08750
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- Office of Naval Research [N00014-17-1-2956]
- National Science Foundation [ECCS-1449291, CBET-1704266, ACI-1053575]
- MIT Energy Initiative Seed Grants
- MIT-SUTD Graduate fellowship
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation program [ACI-1429830]
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1429830] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Machine learning (ML) of quantum mechanical properties shows promise for accelerating chemical discovery. For transition metal chemistry where accurate calculations are computationally costly and available training data sets are small, the molecular representation becomes a critical ingredient in ML model predictive accuracy. We introduce a series of revised autocorrelation functions (RACs) that encode relationships of the heuristic atomic properties (e.g., size, connectivity, and electronegativity) on a molecular graph. We alter the starting point, scope, and nature of the quantities evaluated in standard ACs to make these RACs amenable to inorganic chemistry. On an organic molecule set, we first demonstrate superior standard AC performance to other presently available topological descriptors for ML model training, with mean unsigned errors (MUEs) for atomization energies on set-aside test molecules as low as 6 kcal/mol. For inorganic chemistry, our RACs yield 1 kcal/mol ML MUEs on set-aside test molecules in spin-state splitting in comparison to 15-20X higher errors for feature sets that encode whole-molecule structural information. Systematic feature selection methods including univariate filtering, recursive feature elimination, and direct optimization (e.g., random forest and LASSO) are compared. Random-forest- or LASSO-selected subsets 4-5x smaller than the full RAC set produce sub- to 1 kcal/mol spin-splitting MUEs, with good transferability to metal ligand bond length prediction (0.004-5 angstrom MUE) and redox potential on a smaller data set (0.2-0.3 eV MUE). Evaluation of feature selection results across property sets reveals the relative importance of local, electronic descriptors (e.g., electronegativity, atomic number) in spin splitting and distal, steric effects in redox potential and bond lengths.
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