build predictive models for materials properties. In this study, we employ the data of high-
throughput quantum mechanics calculations based on 170,714 inorganic crystalline
compounds to train a machine learning model for formation energy prediction. Different from
the previous work, our model reaches a fairly good predictive ability (R2= 0.982 and MAE=
0.07 eVatom-1, DenseNet model) and meanwhile can be universally applied to the large …