Chemist versus Machine: Traditional Knowledge versus Machine Learning Techniques
(2020) Trends in Chemistry — (2020)
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George, Janine 
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- Chemical heuristics have been fundamental to the advancement of chemistry and materials science. These heuristics are typically established by scientists using knowledge and creativity to extract patterns from limited datasets. Machine learning offers opportunities to perfect this approach using computers and larger datasets. Here, we discuss the relationships between traditional heuristics and machine learning approaches. We show how traditional rules can be challenged by large-scale statistical assessment and how traditional concepts commonly used as features are feeding the machine learning techniques. We stress the waste involved in relearning chemical rules and the challenges in terms of data size requirements for purely data-driven approaches. Our view is that heuristic and machine learning approaches are at their best when they work together.
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George, J., & Hautier, G. (2020). Chemist versus Machine: Traditional Knowledge versus Machine Learning Techniques. Trends in Chemistry. Published. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2020.10.007 (Original work published 2020)