article Reactions & Reactivity

The challenge of balancing model sensitivity and robustness in predicting yields: a benchmarking study of amide coupling reactions

Zhen Liu, Yurii S. Moroz, Olexandr Isayev

Chem. Sci. Vol. 14 (39) pp. 10835–10846 2023

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A sensitive model captures the reactivity cliffs but overfit to yield outliers.

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A sensitive model captures the reactivity cliffs but overfit to yield outliers. On the other hand, a robust model disregards the yield outliers but underfits the reactivity cliffs.

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@article{Liu2023balancing,
  author = {Liu, Zhen and Moroz, Yurii S. and Isayev, Olexandr},
  title = {The challenge of balancing model sensitivity and robustness in predicting yields: a benchmarking study of amide coupling reactions},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Chem. Sci.},
  volume = {14},
  number = {39},
  pages = {10835--10846},
  doi = {10.1039/d3sc03902a},
  keywords = {yield prediction, benchmarking},
  researchAreas = {reactions-reactivity},
  highlight = {A sensitive model captures the reactivity cliffs but overfit to yield outliers.}
}

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