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Inverse materials design by integrating transfer learning techniques into a Bayesian framework

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K18017
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 60030:Statistical science-related
Research InstitutionThe Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Principal Investigator

Wu Stephen  統計数理研究所, データ科学研究系, 准教授 (70804186)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywordspolymer informatics / transfer learning / open source software / Transfer learning / Materials informatics / Polymer design / Open source software / Materials Informatics / Bayesian inference
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on two key machine learning technologies, Bayesian inference and transfer learning, I have developed an all-in-one materials informatics platform in Python, called XenonPy, that can produce candidates of materials structures with desired properties. The openly available platform serves as the foundation to promote using data science for accelerating discovery of new functional materials suitable for various industrial needs in our daily life. Using this platform, three new high thermal conductivity polymers were discovered and successfully synthesized. The best performing design reached 80% higher thermal conductivities than conventional commercial polymers. Furthermore, several new liquid-crystal polyimide and high lattice thermal conductivity crystals were discovered that seem to have high industrial values.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

材料科学と機械学習の融合を図るマテリアルズインフォマティクス呼ばれる学際領域に期待が高まっているが、産業的に重要かつ新規な機能性材料の合成に成功した研究はまだ少ない。実験コストが高いためにデータが不足していることが、マテリアルインフォマティクスの実際の産業価値を実現するための重要なボトルネックになっている。同技術を用いることで,データが豊富な重要度の低い材料特性から、データが少ない重要度の高い材料特性にも関連する有用な情報を抽出することができる。今までデータ不足のためマテリアルインフォマティクスの応用が失敗した材料科学問題を突破する鍵になる研究である。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (27 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Peer Reviewed: 9 results,  Open Access: 7 results) Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Invited: 7 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Descriptors of intrinsic hydrodynamic thermal transport: screening a phonon database in a machine learning approach2022

    • Author(s)
      Torres Pol、Wu Stephen、Ju Shenghong、Liu Chang、Tadano Terumasa、Yoshida Ryo、Shiomi Junichiro
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

      Volume: 34 Issue: 13 Pages: 135702-135702

    • DOI

      10.1088/1361-648x/ac49c9

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Exploring diamondlike lattice thermal conductivity crystals via feature-based transfer learning2021

    • Author(s)
      Ju Shenghong、Yoshida Ryo、Liu Chang、Wu Stephen、Hongo Kenta、Tadano Terumasa、Shiomi Junichiro
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Materials

      Volume: 5 Issue: 5 Pages: 053801-053801

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevmaterials.5.053801

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Recovering compressed images for automatic crack segmentation using generative models2021

    • Author(s)
      Huang Yong、Zhang Haoyu、Li Hui、Wu Stephen
    • Journal Title

      Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

      Volume: 146 Pages: 107061-107061

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.107061

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Data augmentation in microscopic images for material data mining2020

    • Author(s)
      Ma Boyuan、Wei Xiaoyan、Liu Chuni、Ban Xiaojuan、Huang Haiyou、Wang Hao、Xue Weihua、Wu Stephen、Gao Mingfei、Shen Qing、Mukeshimana Michele、Abuassba Adnan Omer、Shen Haokai、Su Yanjing
    • Journal Title

      npj Computational Materials

      Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Pages: 125-125

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41524-020-00392-6

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Potentials and challenges of polymer informatics: exploiting machine learning for polymer design2020

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu, Hironao Yamada, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Massimiliano Zamengo, Ryo Yoshida
    • Journal Title

      arXiv (in press at Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2021 special issue))

      Volume: NA

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] A general class of transfer learning regression without implementation cost2020

    • Author(s)
      Shunya Minami, Song Liu, Stephen Wu, Kenji Fukumizu, Ryo Yoshida
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: NA

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Bayesian Algorithm for Retrosynthesis2020

    • Author(s)
      Guo Zhongliang、Wu Stephen、Ohno Mitsuru、Yoshida Ryo
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

      Volume: 60 Issue: 10 Pages: 4474-4486

    • DOI

      10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00320

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Machine-learning-assisted discovery of polymers with high thermal conductivity using a molecular design algorithm2019

    • Author(s)
      Wu Stephen、Kondo Yukiko、Kakimoto Masa-aki、Yang Bin、Yamada Hironao、Kuwajima Isao、Lambard Guillaume、Hongo Kenta、Xu Yibin、Shiomi Junichiro、Schick Christoph、Morikawa Junko、Yoshida Ryo
    • Journal Title

      npj Computational Materials

      Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Pages: 66-66

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41524-019-0203-2

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Predicting Materials Properties with Little Data Using Shotgun Transfer Learning2019

    • Author(s)
      Yamada Hironao、Liu Chang、Wu Stephen、Koyama Yukinori、Ju Shenghong、Shiomi Junichiro、Morikawa Junko、Yoshida Ryo
    • Journal Title

      ACS Central Science

      Volume: 5 Issue: 10 Pages: 1717-1730

    • DOI

      10.1021/acscentsci.9b00804

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] iQSPR in XenonPy: A Bayesian Molecular Design Algorithm2019

    • Author(s)
      Wu Stephen、Lambard Guillaume、Liu Chang、Yamada Hironao、Yoshida Ryo
    • Journal Title

      Molecular Informatics

      Volume: 39 Issue: 1-2 Pages: 1900107-1900107

    • DOI

      10.1002/minf.201900107

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 高分子のバーチャルスクリーニング2021

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      統計関連学会連合大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Recovering compressed images for auto-segmentation of building cracks using deep generative models2020

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      The 163rd TCU-ARL Seminar: International Workshop on Data-driven Infrastructure Maintenance and Risk Management
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Recovering compressed images for auto-segmentation of building cracks using deep generative models2020

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      応用力学講演会 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] A case study of machine-assisted polymer design and other transfer learning applications in materials informatics2019

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      第4 回FRIS 若手研究者学際 融合領域研究会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Discovery of new polymers using machine learning models and a Bayesian molecular design algorithm2019

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      The 3rd Forum of Materials Genome Engineering
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Engineering applications of hierarchical Bayesian modeling2019

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      ISI World Statistics Congress
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Potential of transfer learning with uncertainty quantification for materials informatics2019

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      Big data and uncertainty quantification: statistical inference and information theoretic techniques applied to computational chemistry conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Bayesian molecular Design Framework for Searching High Thermal Conductivity Polymers2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      統数研・流体研・AIMR合同Workshop
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Accelerated Discovery of High Thermal Conductivity Polymers with a Bayesian Molecular Design Method2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      第67回高分子学会年次大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 機械学習に基づくポリマー設計: 合成の壁を超えるには ~ 高熱伝導率ポリマーの設計事例2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      The 39th Japan Symposium on Thermophysical Properties
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Bayesian Inverse Material Design for High Thermal Conductivity Polymers2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      I-URICフロンティアコロキウム
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Engineering applications of transfer learning2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      Asia-Pacific-Euro Summer School on Smart Structures Technology 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Engineering applications of the Bayesian problem solving framework2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      Workshop on the Frontier of Applied Bayesian Inference and Computation
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Potential of transfer learning in engineering applications2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      Big data forum on Big Data in Civil Engineering
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Applications of transfer learning in materials science2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      ISI-ISM-ISSAS Joint Conference 2019
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Potential of applying transfer learning to engineering applications: an example in materials science2018

    • Author(s)
      Stephen Wu
    • Organizer
      信頼性工学分野におけるデータサイエンス技術の活用に関する講演会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] ベイズ推論による高熱電導高分子の設計と合成2018

    • Inventor(s)
      森川淳子, 吉田亮, Stephen Wu, 等
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      森川淳子, 吉田亮, Stephen Wu, 等
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Filing Date
      2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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