Molecular-orbital-based machine learning (MOB-ML) provides a general framework for the prediction of accurate correlation energies at the cost of obtaining molecular orbitals. The application of Nesbet’s theorem makes it possible to recast a typical extrapolation task, training on correlation energies for small molecules and predicting correlation energies for large molecules, into an interpolation task based on the properties of orbital pairs. We demonstrate the importance of preserving physical constraints, including invariance conditions and size consistency, when generating the input for the machine learning model. Numerical improvements are demonstrated for different datasets covering total and relative energies for thermally accessible organic and transition-metal containing molecules, non-covalent interactions, and transition-state energies. MOB-ML requires training data from only 1% of the QM7b-T dataset (i.e., only 70 organic molecules with seven and fewer heavy atoms) to predict the total energy of the remaining 99% of this dataset with sub-kcal/mol accuracy. This MOB-ML model is significantly more accurate than other methods when transferred to a dataset comprising of 13 heavy atom molecules, exhibiting no loss of accuracy on a size intensive (i.e., per-electron) basis. It is shown that MOB-ML also works well for extrapolating to transition-state structures, predicting the barrier region for malonaldehyde intramolecular proton-transfer to within 0.35 kcal/mol when only trained on reactant/product-like structures. Finally, the use of the Gaussian process variance enables an active learning strategy for extending the MOB-ML model to new regions of chemical space with minimal effort. We demonstrate this active learning strategy by extending a QM7b-T model to describe non-covalent interactions in the protein backbone–backbone interaction dataset to an accuracy of 0.28 kcal/mol.
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Improved accuracy and transferability of molecular-orbital-based machine learning: Organics, transition-metal complexes, non-covalent interactions, and transition states Available to Purchase
Tamara Husch;
Tamara Husch
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Jiace Sun;
Jiace Sun
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Lixue Cheng
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Lixue Cheng
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Sebastian J. R. Lee
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Sebastian J. R. Lee
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
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Thomas F. Miller, III
Thomas F. Miller, III
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Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
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Tamara Husch
Jiace Sun
Lixue Cheng
Sebastian J. R. Lee
Thomas F. Miller, III
a)
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
J. Chem. Phys. 154, 064108 (2021)
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November 16 2020
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January 17 2021
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Tamara Husch, Jiace Sun, Lixue Cheng, Sebastian J. R. Lee, Thomas F. Miller; Improved accuracy and transferability of molecular-orbital-based machine learning: Organics, transition-metal complexes, non-covalent interactions, and transition states. J. Chem. Phys. 14 February 2021; 154 (6): 064108. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032362
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