Response to Comment on "Predicting reaction performance in C-N cross-coupling using machine learning".

Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.)
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Abstract

We demonstrate that the chemical-feature model described in our original paper is distinguishable from the nongeneralizable models introduced by Chuang and Keiser. Furthermore, the chemical-feature model significantly outperforms these models in out-of-sample predictions, justifying the use of chemical featurization from which machine learning models can extract meaningful patterns in the dataset, as originally described.

Authors

  • Jesús G Estrada
    Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
  • Derek T Ahneman
    Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
  • Robert P Sheridan
  • Spencer D Dreher
    Chemistry Capabilities and Screening, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. spencer_dreher@merck.com agdoyle@princeton.edu.
  • Abigail G Doyle
    Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. spencer_dreher@merck.com agdoyle@princeton.edu.