Summary of Optimizing Ood Detection in Molecular Graphs: a Novel Approach with Diffusion Models, by Xu Shen et al.
Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs: A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models
by Xu Shen, Yili Wang, Kaixiong Zhou, Shirui Pan, Xin Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 framework, dubbed as PGR-MOOD, detects out-of-distribution (OOD) molecules by adopting an auxiliary diffusion model-based approach that compares similarities between input molecules and reconstructed graphs. The vanilla framework is extended to practical detection applications, addressing two significant challenges: the limited consideration of graph structure in popular similarity metrics based on Euclidean distance, and the time-consuming nature of generative models involving iterative denoising steps. To overcome these limitations, PGR-MOOD introduces three innovations: an effective metric for quantifying matching degrees between input and reconstructed molecules, a creative graph generator constructing prototypical graphs aligned with ID but distinct from OOD, and an efficient and scalable OOD detector comparing similarity scores between test samples and pre-constructed prototypical graphs. This approach is evaluated on ten benchmark datasets and six baselines, demonstrating its superiority. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to detect molecules that are not part of the training data. Currently, models struggle to make accurate predictions when faced with these out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. The proposed method uses an auxiliary diffusion model-based framework that compares similarities between input molecules and reconstructed graphs. This approach is more effective at detecting OOD molecules than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion model » Euclidean distance
