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Curious Materials is an independent audit of Google DeepMind's GNoME crystal structure predictions — 3,262 ternary oxygen compounds checked against textbook chemistry rules that are completely independent of the ML pipel

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Checks each predicted ternary oxide against textbook chemistry rules independent of the ML model, then flags anomalies.

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Curious Materials is an independent audit of Google DeepMind's GNoME crystal structure predictions — 3,262 ternary oxygen compounds checked against textbook chemistry rules that are completely independent of the ML pipeline that
leannchen86/gnome-materials-auditor★ 10 forksPythonApache-2.0Created Feb 10, 2026 · last push Jul 18, 2026

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# GNoME Materials Auditor

Audit and explore candidate materials from DeepMind's GNoME predictions with chemistry validators, Materials Project cross-references, and Claude-generated research questions.

The interactive frontend is called **Curious Materials**. It helps researchers triage GNoME candidates by surfacing validation red flags, chemical-family context, and targeted follow-up questions, so they can focus on what to synthesize next instead of sifting through raw prediction tables.

This repo combines traditional chemistry checks with Claude-assisted question generation. In the current run, Claude Opus 4.6 reviewed 3,262 materials and 68 parallel Claude Code subagents generated 1,700 research questions at scale.

## Quick Start

```bash
python3 -m http.server 8080 --directory interface
```

Open `http://localhost:8080` in your browser and go to the Materials tab.

## What The Auditor Checks

For each material, the pipeline first runs these validation checks:

| Validator | What it checks | Tier |
|-----------|---------------|------|
| Charge Neutrality | Oxidation states sum to zero | 1 (DFT-independent) |
| Shannon Radii | Bond lengths match expected ionic radii | 1 |
| Pauling Rule 2 | Electrostatic valence around O sites | 1 |
| Bond Valence Sum (GII) | Global bond strain | 2 (uses DFT geometry) |
| Space Group | Matches experimental databases | 2 |

Then Claude reviews each material, its validation results, and its **related materials** to generate a targeted res

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