Summary of Beyond Efficiency: Molecular Data Pruning For Enhanced Generalization, by Dingshuo Chen et al.
Beyond Efficiency: Molecular Data Pruning for Enhanced Generalization
by Dingshuo Chen, Zhixun Li, Yuyan Ni, Guibin Zhang, Ding Wang, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Liang Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
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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 proposes a novel framework for efficient training called Molecular Data Pruning (MolPeg) that addresses the growing issue of massive datasets in molecular tasks. The authors build upon traditional data pruning methods by introducing a source-free approach that leverages pretrained models. MolPeg achieves this by maintaining two models with different updating paces and utilizing a novel scoring function to measure sample informativeness based on loss discrepancy. This plug-and-play framework outperforms existing DP methods across four downstream tasks, including HIV and PCBA datasets, even when pruning up to 60-70% of the data. The authors suggest that discovering effective data-pruning metrics could provide a viable path to both enhanced efficiency and superior generalization in transfer learning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MolPeg is a new way to train models efficiently for molecular tasks. It uses special algorithms to remove less important data points, making training faster and more accurate. This helps when using big datasets or pretrained models. MolPeg works by keeping two models with different update rates and measuring how useful each piece of data is based on the model’s mistakes. It can even do better than training with all the data when pruning up to 60-70% of it. The authors think this could be a good way to make machine learning more efficient and accurate. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Machine learning » Pruning » Transfer learning
