Perspective: Towards sustainable exploration of chemical spaces with machine learning
Artificial intelligence is transforming molecular and materials science, but its growing computational and data demands raise critical sustainability challenges. In this Perspective, we examine resource considerations across the AI-driven discovery pipeline–from quantum-mechanical (QM) data generation and model training to automated, self-driving research workflows–building on discussions from the “SusML workshop: Towards sustainable exploration of chemical spaces with machine learning” held in Dresden, Germany. In this context, the availability of large quantum datasets has enabled rigorous benchmarking and rapid methodological […]