arXiv Machine Learning By Krishna Teja Vepa

Computational references are not experiments: pre-registered validation of machine-learned sodium-cathode voltages

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arXiv:2606. 23725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learning screens for battery materials are trained and judged almost entirely against computed reference voltages, and those references carry their own systematic errors.

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