Density of states prediction for materials discovery via contrastive learning from probabilistic embeddings

Shufeng Kong, Francesco Ricci, Dan Guevarra, Jeffrey B. Neaton (), Carla P. Gomes () and John M. Gregoire ()
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Shufeng Kong: Cornell University
Francesco Ricci: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dan Guevarra: California Institute of Technology
Jeffrey B. Neaton: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carla P. Gomes: Cornell University
John M. Gregoire: California Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Machine learning for materials discovery has largely focused on predicting an individual scalar rather than multiple related properties, where spectral properties are an important example. Fundamental spectral properties include the phonon density of states (phDOS) and the electronic density of states (eDOS), which individually or collectively are the origins of a breadth of materials observables and functions. Building upon the success of graph attention networks for encoding crystalline materials, we introduce a probabilistic embedding generator specifically tailored to the prediction of spectral properties. Coupled with supervised contrastive learning, our materials-to-spectrum (Mat2Spec) model outperforms state-of-the-art methods for predicting ab initio phDOS and eDOS for crystalline materials. We demonstrate Mat2Spec’s ability to identify eDOS gaps below the Fermi energy, validating predictions with ab initio calculations and thereby discovering candidate thermoelectrics and transparent conductors. Mat2Spec is an exemplar framework for predicting spectral properties of materials via strategically incorporated machine learning techniques.

Date: 2022
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