Machine learning on multiple topological materials datasets
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- 1. UCLouvain, Institut de la Matiere Condensée et des Nanosciences (IMCN), Chemin des Étoiles 8, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium
- 2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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A dataset of 35,608 materials with their topological properties is constructed by combining the density functional theory (DFT) results of Materiae and the Topological Materials Database. Thanks to this, machine-learning approaches are developed to categorize materials into five distinct topological types, with the XGBoost model achieving an impressive 85.2% classification accuracy. By conducting generalization tests on different sub-datasets, differences are identified between the original datasets in terms of topological types, chemical elements, unknown magnetic compounds, and feature space coverage. Their impact on model performance is analyzed. Turning to the simpler binary classification between trivial insulators and nontrivial topological materials, three different approaches are also tested. Key characteristics influencing material topology are identified, with the maximum packing efficiency and the fraction of p valence electrons being highlighted as critical features.
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References
Website Yuqing He et al., Machine learning on multiple topological materials datasets
Journal reference (Paper describing the work performed) Yuqing He at al., npj Computational Materials XX, XX (2025), doi: 10.1038/s41524-025-01687-2