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About this paper
Kunal Ghosh, Milica Todorović, Aki Vehtari, Patrick Rinke
This study systematically assesses Active Learning (AL) for molecular datasets, demonstrating its benefits are highly task-specific. AL provides up to 64% computational savings for targeted molecular property searches, but offers minimal advantages over random sampling for generating compact, informative datasets when machine learning models are properly regularized.
Key insights
- The utility of Active Learning is highly dependent on the specific objective: it is more effective for targeted searches than for general dataset pruning.
- When Gaussian Process models are optimally regularized with appropriate noise settings, AL offers minimal to no computational savings over random sampling for the task of creating generally informative datasets.
- AL provides substantial computational benefits for targeted property searches by effectively biasing data collection towards a specific, narrow region of the chemical space, rather than trying to represent the entire distribution.
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