English
Related papers

Related papers: Active Learning for Rapid Targeted Synthesis of Co…

200 papers

The development of accurate and transferable machine learning (ML) potentials for predicting molecular energetics is a challenging task. The process of data generation to train such ML potentials is a task neither well understood nor…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Justin S. Smith , Ben Nebgen , Nicholas Lubbers , Olexandr Isayev , Adrian E. Roitberg

Accurate prediction of materials phase diagrams from first principles remains a central challenge in computational materials science. Machine-learning interatomic potentials can provide near-DFT accuracy at a fraction of the cost, but their…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-23 Nico Unglert , Michael Ketter , Georg K. H. Madsen

Simultaneously optimizing molecules against multiple therapeutic targets remains a profound challenge in drug discovery, particularly due to sparse rewards and conflicting design constraints. We propose a structured active learning (AL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Júlia Vilalta-Mor , Alexis Molina , Laura Ortega Varga , Isaac Filella-Merce , Victor Guallar

Discovery of the molecular candidates for applications in drug targets, biomolecular systems, catalysts, photovoltaics, organic electronics, and batteries, necessitates development of machine learning algorithms capable of rapid exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ayana Ghosh , Sergei V. Kalinin , Maxim A. Ziatdinov

Backpropagation (BP) is the cornerstone of today's deep learning algorithms, but it is inefficient partially because of backward locking, which means updating the weights of one layer locks the weight updates in the other layers.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yu-Wei Kao , Hung-Hsuan Chen

In the era of data-driven intelligence, the paradox of data abundance and annotation scarcity has emerged as a critical bottleneck in the advancement of machine learning. This paper gives a detailed overview of Active Learning (AL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chiung-Yi Tseng , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Ming Liu

The scarcity of labelled data makes training Deep Neural Network (DNN) models in bioacoustic applications challenging. In typical bioacoustics applications, manually labelling the required amount of data can be prohibitively expensive. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Md Mohaimenuzzaman , Christoph Bergmeir , Bernd Meyer

Structural prediction for the discovery of novel materials is a long sought after goal of computational physics and materials sciences. The success is rather limited for methods such as the simulated annealing method (SA) that require…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Chuannan Li , Hanpu Liang , Yifeng Duan , Zijing Lin

Due to their abundant use in all-solid-state lasers, nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals are needed for many applications across diverse fields such as medicine and communication. However, because of conflicting requirements, the design of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Victor Trinquet , Matthew L. Evans , Gian-Marco Rignanese

We employ a descriptor based machine-learning approach to assess the effect of chemical alloying on formation-enthalpy of rare-earth intermetallics. Application of machine-learning approaches in rare-earth intermetallic design have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-07 Prashant Singh , Tyler Del Rose , Guillermo Vazquez , Raymundo Arroyave , Yaroslav Mudryk

Synthesis of advanced inorganic materials with minimum number of trials is of paramount importance towards the acceleration of inorganic materials development. The enormous complexity involved in existing multi-variable synthesis methods…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-02 Bijun Tang , Yuhao Lu , Jiadong Zhou , Han Wang , Prafful Golani , Manzhang Xu , Quan Xu , Cuntai Guan , Zheng Liu

Active learning (AL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that strategically selects the most informative samples for annotation during training, aiming to minimize annotation costs. This strategy not only reduces labeling expenses but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Cédric Jung , Shirin Salehi , Anke Schmeink

Autonomous physical science is revolutionizing materials science. In these systems, machine learning controls experiment design, execution, and analysis in a closed loop. Active learning, the machine learning field of optimal experiment…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Alex Wang , Haotong Liang , Austin McDannald , Ichiro Takeuchi , A. Gilad Kusne

Active learning in computer experiments aims at allocating resources in an intelligent manner based on the already observed data to satisfy certain objectives such as emulating or optimizing a computationally expensive function. There are…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-24 Difan Song , V. Roshan Joseph

We introduce the first active learning (AL) model for high-accuracy instance segmentation of moveable parts from RGB images of real indoor scenes. Specifically, our goal is to obtain fully validated segmentation results by humans while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ruiqi Wang , Akshay Gadi Patil , Fenggen Yu , Hao Zhang

Active learning (AL) has found wide applications in medical image segmentation, aiming to alleviate the annotation workload and enhance performance. Conventional uncertainty-based AL methods, such as entropy and Bayesian, often rely on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Siteng Ma , Haochang Wu , Aonghus Lawlor , Ruihai Dong

Developing data-driven machine-learning interatomic potentials for materials containing many elements becomes increasingly challenging due to the vast configuration space that must be sampled by the training data. We study the learning…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-16 Jesper Byggmästar , Kai Nordlund , Flyura Djurabekova

Construction of human-curated annotated datasets for abstractive text summarization (ATS) is very time-consuming and expensive because creating each instance requires a human annotator to read a long document and compose a shorter summary…

Active Learning (AL) represents a crucial methodology within machine learning, emphasizing the identification and utilization of the most informative samples for efficient model training. However, a significant challenge of AL is its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanbin Hong , Shenao Yan , Shuya Feng , Yan Yan , Yuan Hong

Alloy discovery is constrained by vast compositional spaces, competing objectives, and prohibitive experimental costs. Although simulations and machine learning have each accelerated parts of this process, unifying scientific knowledge,…