Explainable Recommendation Engines to Predict Complex Intermetallics: Synthesis and Characterization of Gd10RuCd3, a Neutron Absorption Material
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Abstract
The search for a neutron absorption material was aided by materials informatics tools, composing the developed recommendation engines. A new member in the ternary RE10MCd3 series, Gd10RuCd3, was predicted and synthesized as an experimental validation. The recommendation engine is based on partial least squares – discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) crystallographic site processing to classify the site preference of elements in compounds crystallizing in the Y10RuCd3-type structure and upon projecting other elements onto Principal Component map, the titled compound emerged as the top candidate. The distinguishing feature of the developed recommendation engine is in the three explainable methods utilized in the predictive framework: unrestricted, conservative, and cluster methods. Predictions are visualized with convenient property projection tools. The prediction was validated with high-temperature synthesis. The structure was confirmed with single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. The cold-water-quenched samples quenched from 800 °C have smaller unit cell volume than the samples quenched from 600 °C annealing temperature. Transport properties measurements show an unusually low thermal conductivity (5-7 W·m-1K-1) and the trend change indicating a possible structure transition between 600 and 800 °C. The unusual low thermal conductivity was predicted with machine-learning model that focuses on thermoelectric property prediction. DFT analysis reveals the presence of a 0D electride phenomenon. The neutron cross section and absorption based on the constituent elements put our material within the top 0.4% of neutron absorbers. The negative thermal expansion and high mass absorption suggest Gd10RuCd3 as an attractive neutron absorption material.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".