Summary of Active Learning Of Molecular Data For Task-specific Objectives, by Kunal Ghosh et al.
Active Learning of Molecular Data for Task-Specific Objectives
by Kunal Ghosh, Milica Todorović, Aki Vehtari, Patrick Rinke
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates active learning (AL) for molecular datasets, exploring its effectiveness and data efficiency. The authors implemented AL with Gaussian processes and tested different strategies on three diverse molecular datasets and two scientific tasks: compiling informative datasets and targeted molecular searches. For the first task, they found that AL was insensitive to batch size but performed best when combining uncertainty reduction with clustering. However, for optimal GP noise settings, AL did not outperform random sampling. In contrast, AL outperformed random sampling for targeted searches, achieving data savings up to 64%. The paper highlights the performance difference between tasks and provides insight into the role of target distributions and data collection strategies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research looks at a way to make machine learning more efficient by only looking at some of the data. They tested this method on three different types of molecular data and found that it works well for certain tasks, but not others. For one task, they found that the method didn’t matter much, while for another task, it was much faster than usual methods. The results show that how well this method works depends on what you’re trying to do with the data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Active learning » Clustering » Machine learning
