articleNature Machine IntelligenceJun 23, 2025HYBRID OA

A framework to evaluate machine learning crystal stability predictions

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · University of Cambridge · +2 more institutions

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Abstract The rapid adoption of machine learning in various scientific domains calls for the development of best practices and community agreed-upon benchmarking tasks and metrics. We present Matbench Discovery as an example evaluation framework for machine learning energy models, here applied as pre-filters to first-principles computed data in a high-throughput search for stable inorganic crystals. We address the disconnect between (1) thermodynamic stability and formation energy and (2) retrospective and prospective benchmarking for materials discovery. Alongside this paper, we publish a Python package to aid with future model submissions and a growing online leaderboard with adaptive user-defined weighting…

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