Artificial intelligence-enhanced quantum mechanical method 1 (AIQM1) is a general-purpose method that was shown to achieve high accuracy for many applications with a speed close to its baseline semiempirical quantum mechanical (SQM) method ODM2*. Here, we evaluate the hitherto unknown performance of out-of-the-box AIQM1 without any refitting for reaction barrier heights on eight datasets, including a total of ∼24 thousand reactions. This evaluation shows that AIQM1’s accuracy strongly depends on the type of transition state and ranges from excellent for rotation barriers to poor for, e.g., pericyclic reactions. AIQM1 clearly outperforms its baseline ODM2* method and, even more so, a popular universal potential, ANI-1ccx. Overall, however, AIQM1 accuracy largely remains similar to SQM methods (and B3LYP/6-31G* for most reaction types) suggesting that it is desirable to focus on improving AIQM1 performance for barrier heights in the future. We also show that the built-in uncertainty quantification helps in identifying confident predictions. The accuracy of confident AIQM1 predictions is approaching the level of popular density functional theory methods for most reaction types. Encouragingly, AIQM1 is rather robust for transition state optimizations, even for the type of reactions it struggles with the most. Single-point calculations with high-level methods on AIQM1-optimized geometries can be used to significantly improve barrier heights, which cannot be said for its baseline ODM2* method.
Skip Nav Destination
Article navigation
21 February 2023
Research Article|
February 15 2023
Benchmark of general-purpose machine learning-based quantum mechanical method AIQM1 on reaction barrier heights
Special Collection:
Modern Semiempirical Electronic Structure Methods
Yuxinxin Chen (陈余忻忻)
;
Yuxinxin Chen (陈余忻忻)
(Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
, Xiamen 361005, China
Search for other works by this author on:
Yanchi Ou (欧彦池)
;
Yanchi Ou (欧彦池)
(Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing)
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
, Xiamen 361005, China
Search for other works by this author on:
Peikun Zheng (郑培锟)
;
Peikun Zheng (郑培锟)
(Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing)
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
, Xiamen 361005, China
Search for other works by this author on:
Yaohuang Huang (黄瑶煌)
;
Yaohuang Huang (黄瑶煌)
(Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing)
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
, Xiamen 361005, China
Search for other works by this author on:
Fuchun Ge (葛赋春)
;
Fuchun Ge (葛赋春)
(Formal analysis, Investigation)
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
, Xiamen 361005, China
Search for other works by this author on:
Pavlo O. Dral
Pavlo O. Dral
a)
(Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
, Xiamen 361005, China
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: dral@xmu.edu.cn
Search for other works by this author on:
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: dral@xmu.edu.cn
Note: This paper is part of the JCP Special Topic on Modern Semiempirical Electronic Structure Methods.
J. Chem. Phys. 158, 074103 (2023)
Article history
Received:
November 30 2022
Accepted:
January 30 2023
Citation
Yuxinxin Chen, Yanchi Ou, Peikun Zheng, Yaohuang Huang, Fuchun Ge, Pavlo O. Dral; Benchmark of general-purpose machine learning-based quantum mechanical method AIQM1 on reaction barrier heights. J. Chem. Phys. 21 February 2023; 158 (7): 074103. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0137101
Download citation file:
Pay-Per-View Access
$40.00
Sign In
You could not be signed in. Please check your credentials and make sure you have an active account and try again.
Citing articles via
DeePMD-kit v2: A software package for deep potential models
Jinzhe Zeng, Duo Zhang, et al.
A theory of pitch for the hydrodynamic properties of molecules, helices, and achiral swimmers at low Reynolds number
Anderson D. S. Duraes, J. Daniel Gezelter
CREST—A program for the exploration of low-energy molecular chemical space
Philipp Pracht, Stefan Grimme, et al.
Related Content
Modern semiempirical electronic structure methods and machine learning potentials for drug discovery: Conformers, tautomers, and protonation states
J. Chem. Phys. (March 2023)
Ultra-fast semi-empirical quantum chemistry for high-throughput computational campaigns with Sparrow
J. Chem. Phys. (February 2023)
Prediction uncertainty validation for computational chemists
J. Chem. Phys. (October 2022)
Woodward-Hoffmann rules in density functional theory: Initial hardness response
J. Chem. Phys. (December 2006)