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most citedFast and Accurate Modeling of Molecular Atomization Energies with Machine Learning

2.4k citations · 8.1k across the 75 of their papers we have counts for

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77 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

A strategic roadmap for an atomistic machine-learning ecosystem

Jörg Behler, Michele Ceriotti, Cecilia Clementi +47

Data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques have become an essential tool in many domains of science. Their application to atomistic simulations of matter is particularly widespre…

physics.chem-ph2026

Approximate label symmetries improve data efficiency

Scott Y. H. Kim, Mathis Lechaume-Robert, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Enforcing feature symmetries in machine learning (ML) models is a common strategy to mitigate data scarcity. Confirming expectations from statistical learning theory, we show that…

stat.ML2025

Gradient-Guided Furthest Point Sampling for Robust Training Set Selection

Morris Trestman, Stefan Gugler, Felix A. Faber +1

Training set sampling methods are used to improve model performance and lower data costs in machine learning problems relevant to chemistry. We introduce Gradient Guided Furthest P…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Antisymmetry rules of response properties in certain chemical spaces

Takafumi Shiraogawa, Simon León Krug, Masahiro Ehara +1

Understanding chemical compound space (CCS), a set of molecules and materials, is crucial for the rational discovery of molecules and materials. Concepts of symmetry have recently…

physics.chem-ph2024

Alchemical insights into approximately quadratic energies of iso-electronic atoms

Simon León Krug, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Accurate quantum mechanics based predictions of property trends are so important for materials design and discovery that even inexpensive approximate methods are valuable. We use t…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

High-Tc superconductor candidates proposed by machine learning

Siwoo Lee, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Young-June Kim +1

We cast the relation between the chemical composition of a solid-state material and its superconducting critical temperature (Tc) as a statistical learning problem with reduced com…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 4 cited

Combining Hammett constants for -machine learning and catalyst discovery

V. Diana Rakotonirina, Marco Bragato, Stefan Heinen +1

We study the applicability of the Hammett-inspired product (HIP) Ansatz to model relative substrate binding within homogenous organometallic catalysis, assigning and to lig…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 8 cited

Quantum mechanical dataset of 836k neutral closed shell molecules with upto 5 heavy atoms from CNOFSiPSClBr

Danish Khan, Anouar Benali, Scott Y. H. Kim +2

We introduce the Vector-QM24 (VQM24) dataset comprehensively covering all possible neutral closed-shell small organic and inorganic molecules with up to five heavy (\textit{p}-bloc…

physics.chem-ph2024

Data-Error Scaling Laws in Machine Learning on Combinatorial Mutation-prone Sets: Proteins and Small Molecules

Vanni Doffini, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, Michael A. Nash

We investigate trends in the data-error scaling laws of machine learning (ML) models trained on discrete combinatorial spaces that are prone-to-mutation, such as proteins or organi…

physics.chem-ph2024

Adaptive atomic basis sets

Danish Khan, Maximilian L. Ach, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Atomic basis sets are widely employed within quantum mechanics based simulations of matter. We introduce a machine learning model that adapts the basis set to the local chemical en…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 1 cited

Boltzmann Generators and the New Frontier of Computational Sampling in Many-Body Systems

Alessandro Coretti, Sebastian Falkner, Jan Weinreich +2

The paper by Noé et al. [F. Noé, S. Olsson, J. Köhler and H. Wu, Science, 365:6457 (2019)] introduced the concept of Boltzmann Generators (BGs), a deep generative model that can pr…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 2 cited

Adaptive hybrid density functionals

Danish Khan, Alastair James Arthur Price, Maximilian L. Ach +1

Exact exchange contributions are known to crucially affect electronic states, which in turn govern covalent bond formation and breaking in chemical species. Empirically averaging t…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

The Alchemical Integral Transform revisited

Simon León Krug, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

We recently introduced the Alchemical Integral Transform (AIT) enabling the prediction of energy differences, and guessed an Ansatz to parametrize space in some alchemica…

physics.chem-ph2023

Transferability of atomic energies from alchemical decomposition

Michael J. Sahre, Guido Falk von Rudorff, Philipp Marquetand +1

We study alchemical atomic energy partitioning as a method to estimate atomisation energies from atomic contributions which are defined in physically rigorous and general ways thro…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 18 cited

Reducing Training Data Needs with Minimal Multilevel Machine Learning (M3L)

Stefan Heinen, Danish Khan, Guido Falk von Rudorff +7

For many machine learning applications in science, data acquisition, not training, is the bottleneck even when avoiding experiments and relying on computation and simulation. Corre…

physics.chem-ph2023

Autonomous data extraction from peer reviewed literature for training machine learning models of oxidation potentials

Siwoo Lee, Stefan Heinen, Danish Khan +1

We present an automated data-collection pipeline involving a convolutional neural network and a large language model to extract user-specified tabular data from peer-reviewed liter…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 5 cited

Evolutionary Monte Carlo of QM properties in chemical space: Electrolyte design

Konstantin Karandashev, Jan Weinreich, Stefan Heinen +4

Optimizing a target function over the space of organic molecules is an important problem appearing in many fields of applied science, but also a very difficult one due to the vast…

physics.chem-ph2023

Impact of noise on inverse design: The case of NMR spectra matching

Dominik Lemm, Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Despite its fundamental importance and widespread use for assessing reaction success in organic chemistry, deducing chemical structures from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measur…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 3 cited

Alchemical diastereomers from antisymmetric alchemical perturbations

O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, Giorgio Domenichini

The energy difference between two iso-electronic systems can be accurately approximated by the alchemical first order Hellmann-Feynmann derivative for the averaged Hamiltonian. Thi…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

Hammett-Inspired Product Baseline for Data-efficient -ML in Chemical Space

V. Diana Rakotonirina, Marco Bragato, Guido Falk von Rudorff +1

Data-hungry machine learning methods have become a new standard to efficiently navigate chemical compound space for molecular and materials design and discovery. Due to the severe…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 245 cited

Towards self-driving laboratories: The central role of density functional theory in the AI age

Bing Huang, Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Density functional theory (DFT) plays a pivotal role for the chemical and materials science due to its relatively high predictive power, applicability, versatility and computationa…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 11 cited

Conformational and state-specific effects in reactions of 2,3-dibromobutadiene with Coulomb-crystallized calcium ions

Ardita Kilaj, Silvan Käser, Jia Wang +7

Recent advances in experimental methodology enabled studies of the quantum-state and conformational dependence of chemical reactions under precisely controlled conditions in the ga…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 22 cited

Kernel based quantum machine learning at record rate : Many-body distribution functionals as compact representations

Danish Khan, Stefan Heinen, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

The feature vector mapping used to represent chemical systems is a key factor governing the superior data-efficiency of kernel based quantum machine learning (QML) models applicabl…

cs.CR2022

Encrypted machine learning of molecular quantum properties

Jan Weinreich, Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Large machine learning models with improved predictions have become widely available in the chemical sciences. Unfortunately, these models do not protect the privacy necessary with…