Matbench Discovery

Disclaimer: We evaluate how accurately ML models predict solid-state thermodynamic stability. Although this is an important aspect of high-throughput materials discovery, the ranking cannot give a complete picture of a model's general applicability to materials. A high ranking does not constitute endorsement by the Materials Project.

Matbench Discovery is an interactive leaderboard and associated PyPI package which together make it easy to rank ML energy models on a task designed to simulate a high-throughput discovery campaign for new stable inorganic crystals.

We've tested models covering multiple methodologies ranging from random forests with structure fingerprints to graph neural networks, from one-shot predictors to iterative Bayesian optimizers and interatomic potential relaxers.

Our results show that ML models have become robust enough to deploy them as triaging steps to more effectively allocate compute in high-throughput DFT relaxations. This work provides valuable insights for anyone looking to build large-scale materials databases.

We welcome contributions that add new models to the leaderboard through GitHub PRs. See the contributing guide for details.

If you're interested in joining this work, please reach out via GitHub discussion or email.

For detailed results and analysis, check out the preprint.