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most citedHierarchical symbolic regression for identifying key physical parameters correlated with bulk properties of perovskites

34 citations · 43 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Unveiling the Core of Materials Properties via SISSO and Sensitivity Analysis

Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

Interpretable AI can reveal physical principles governing intricate materials properties by uncovering explicit relationships between physical parameters and target properties. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A Critical Examination of Active Learning Workflows in Materials Science

Akhil S. Nair, Lucas Foppa

Active learning (AL) plays a critical role in materials science, enabling applications such as the construction of machine-learning interatomic potentials for atomistic simulations…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 8 cited

Roadmap on Advancements of the FHI-aims Software Package

Joseph W. Abbott, Carlos Mera Acosta, Alaa Akkoush +203

Electronic-structure theory is the foundation of the description of materials including multiscale modeling of their properties and functions. Obviously, without sufficient accurac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Materials Database from All-electron Hybrid Functional DFT Calculations

Akhil S. Nair, Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

Materials databases built from calculations based on density functional approximations play an important role in the discovery of materials with improved properties. Most databases…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Materials-Discovery Workflows Guided by Symbolic Regression: Identifying Acid-Stable Oxides for Electrocatalysis

Akhil S. Nair, Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

The efficiency of active learning (AL) approaches to identify materials with desired properties relies on the knowledge of a few parameters describing the property. However, these…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Coherent Collections of Rules Describing Exceptional Materials Identified with a Multi-Objective Optimization of Subgroups

Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

Useful materials are often statistically exceptional and they might be overlooked by AI models that attempt to describe all materials simultaneously. These global models perform we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Roadmap on Data-Centric Materials Science

Stefan Bauer, Peter Benner, Tristan Bereau +58

Science is and always has been based on data, but the terms "data-centric" and the "4th paradigm of" materials research indicate a radical change in how information is retrieved, h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

From Prediction to Action: Critical Role of Performance Estimation for Machine-Learning-Driven Materials Discovery

Mario Boley, Felix Luong, Simon Teshuva +3

Materials discovery driven by statistical property models is an iterative decision process, during which an initial data collection is extended with new data proposed by a model-in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Towards a Multi-Objective Optimization of Subgroups for the Discovery of Materials with Exceptional Performance

Lucas Foppa, Matthias Scheffler

Artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate the design of materials by identifying correlations and complex patterns in data. However, AI methods commonly attempt to describe the e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 34 cited

Hierarchical symbolic regression for identifying key physical parameters correlated with bulk properties of perovskites

Lucas Foppa, Thomas A. R. Purcell, Sergey V. Levchenko +2

Symbolic regression identifies key physical parameters describing materials properties by uncovering correlations as nonlinear analytical expressions. However, the pool of expressi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Identifying outstanding transition-metal-alloy heterogeneous catalysts for the oxygen reduction and evolution reactions via subgroup discovery

Lucas Foppa, Luca M. Ghiringhelli

In order to estimate the reactivity of a large number of potentially complex heterogeneous catalysts while searching for novel and more efficient materials, physical as well as dat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Materials genes of heterogeneous catalysis from clean experiments and artificial intelligence

Lucas Foppa, Luca M. Ghiringhelli, Frank Girgsdies +10

Heterogeneous catalysis is an example of a complex materials function, governed by an intricate interplay of several processes, e.g., the different surface chemical reactions, and…