Machine learning framework for finding materials with desired properties

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is presented for discovering new material candidates from a chemical database. The method includes extracting a feature vector from a chemical formula, learning a prediction model for predicting property values from the feature vector with a sparse kernel model employing the chemical database, selecting an existing material from a list of existing materials sorted in descending order based on the predicted property values by the prediction model learned in the learning step, selecting a basis material from a list of basis materials sorted in descending order of absolute reaction magnitudes to the selected existing material, and generating the new material candidates as variants of the selected existing material with consideration of the selected basis material.