Sergey Pozdnyakov^1*, Michael Willatt^1*, Michele Ceriotti^1,2*

1 Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, IMX, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

2 National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: sergey.pozdnyakov@epfl.ch, m.willatt@fkf.mpg.de, michele.ceriotti@epfl.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:qy-dp [version v2]

Publication date: Sep 18, 2020

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Sergey Pozdnyakov, Michael Willatt, Michele Ceriotti, Randomly-displaced methane configurations, Materials Cloud Archive 2020.110 (2020), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:qy-dp

Description

Most of the datasets to benchmark machine-learning models contain minimum-energy structures, or small fluctuations around stable geometries, and focus on the diversity of chemical compositions, or the presence of different phases. This dataset provides a large number (7732488) configurations for a simple CH4 composition, that are generated in an almost completely unbiased fashion. Hydrogen atoms are randomly distributed in a 3A sphere centered around the carbon atom, and the only structures that are discarded are those with atoms that are closer than 0.5A, or such that the reference DFT calculation does not converge. This dataset is ideal to benchmark structural representations and regression algorithms, verifying whether they allow reaching arbitrary accuracy in the data rich regime.

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methane.extxyz.gz MD5md5:11cf7303d8c0fa6ef753103f5439d6e1	1.1 GiB	7732488 random methane molecules along with their dft energies and forces in the extended xyz format

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Keywords

dataset DFT Methane atomistic machine learning SNSF MARVEL