Summary of Improved Uncertainty Estimation Of Graph Neural Network Potentials Using Engineered Latent Space Distances, by Joseph Musielewicz et al.
Improved Uncertainty Estimation of Graph Neural Network Potentials Using Engineered Latent Space Distances
by Joseph Musielewicz, Janice Lan, Matt Uyttendaele, John R. Kitchin
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper addresses the limitation of graph neural networks (GNNs) in molecular property prediction, specifically for relaxed energy calculations in material discovery. GNNs have shown impressive results as surrogates for expensive density functional theory calculations, but lack uncertainty prediction methods, which are critical to the pipeline. The authors argue that distribution-free techniques are more suitable for assessing calibration and developing uncertainty prediction methods for GNNs performing relaxed energy calculations. They propose a new task for evaluating uncertainty methods using the Open Catalyst Project dataset and benchmark several popular methods. The results show that latent distance methods, with novel improvements, are the most well-calibrated and economical approach. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about improving graph neural networks (GNNs) so they can make better predictions of molecular properties, especially when it comes to relaxed energy calculations for material discovery. Right now, GNNs don’t do a great job of predicting how certain their answers are, which makes them less useful in this field. The authors think that using special techniques that don’t rely on knowing the distribution of errors is a better way to approach this problem. They also come up with a new task for testing these methods and show that some types of GNNs can be very good at making accurate predictions. |
