Improved decision making with similarity based machine learning: applications in chemistry

Dominik Lemm, Guido Falk von Rudorff, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Despite the fundamental progress in autonomous molecular and materials discovery, data scarcity throughout chemical compound space still severely hampers the use of modern ready-made machine learning models as they rely heavily on the paradigm, ‘the bigger the data the better’. Presenting similarity based machine learning (SML), we show an approach to select data and train a model on-the-fly for specific queries, enabling decision making in data scarce scenarios in chemistry. By solely relying on query and training data proximity to choose training points, only a fraction of data is necessary to converge to competitive performance. After introducing SML for the harmonic oscillator and the Rosenbrock function, we describe applications to scarce data scenarios in chemistry which include quantum mechanics based molecular design and organic synthesis planning. Finally, we derive a relationship between the intrinsic dimensionality and volume of feature space, governing the overall model accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Article number045043
Number of pages15
JournalMachine Learning: Science and Technology
Volume4
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2023

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 102019 Machine learning
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence

Keywords

  • decision making
  • local learning
  • machine learning
  • similarity

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