Summary of Closed-form Test Functions For Biophysical Sequence Optimization Algorithms, by Samuel Stanton et al.
Closed-Form Test Functions for Biophysical Sequence Optimization Algorithms
by Samuel Stanton, Robert Alberstein, Nathan Frey, Andrew Watkins, Kyunghyun Cho
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Machine learning has been incredibly successful in computer vision and natural language processing tasks. Researchers are now looking to apply these successes to biophysical data applications, but there’s a major obstacle: good benchmarks for these domains are scarce. Unlike CV and NLP, where broad acceptance of challenging benchmarks helped junior researchers investigate subproblems, biophysics lacks such benchmarks. To address this issue, we propose abstracting complex biophysical problems into simpler ones with key geometric similarities. Specifically, we introduce Ehrlich functions, a new class of closed-form test functions for biophysical sequence optimization. Our empirical results show that these functions are intriguing and can be challenging to solve using standard genetic optimization methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Biologists and scientists are trying to use machine learning in their work, but there’s a problem: it’s hard to measure how well the algorithms are doing! To fix this, we need better “test questions” for biophysical data. Unlike computer vision and language processing, where people agree on what makes a good test question, biophysics is missing those benchmarks. We have an idea: take really complex biophysical problems and break them down into simpler ones that share some key features. This helps us create new types of “test questions” for biophysicists to use. Our results show that these new test questions are interesting and can be tricky to solve. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Natural language processing » Nlp » Optimization
