Fig. 10: Global optimization of Ni3Al, NiPt2Al, and NiPtZnAl bulk structures with simultaneous optimization of the unit cell with ICE, Ghost or with standard BEACON.

All systems include 16 atoms in the unit cell. a–c The identified minimum-energy structures. d Success curves for optimization of the three systems. “ICE” refers to runs using ICE-groups containing all elements, “Ghost” refers to runs with 50% ghost atoms added, while “BEACON” refers to runs with no ICE-groups nor ghost atoms. The error shading is based on Bayesian uncertainty estimation, as detailed in the methods section.