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Development and Testing of Species-specific Quantitative PCR Assays for Environmental DNA Applications

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Active learning of molecular data for task-specific objectives.

Kunal Ghosh^1,2, Milica Todorović³, Aki Vehtari²

¹Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland.

The Journal of Chemical Physics

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Active learning (AL) offers data efficiency but its computational savings vary. For targeted molecular searches, AL achieved up to 64% data savings, outperforming random sampling.

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Area of Science:

Computational Chemistry
Machine Learning
Data Science

Background:

Active learning (AL) is a promising machine learning approach for data efficiency.
Its practical utility and potential for computational savings are application-dependent.
Understanding when AL yields benefits is crucial for practitioners.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically assess active learning performance across diverse molecular datasets and scientific tasks.
To identify factors influencing AL's effectiveness and computational savings.
To provide guidance on optimal AL strategies for molecular data analysis.

Main Methods:

Implemented active learning using Gaussian processes (GP) with a many-body tensor molecular representation.
Evaluated AL on tasks of dataset compilation and targeted molecular searches.
Tested various acquisition strategies, batch sizes, and GP noise settings.

Main Results:

AL performance varied by task; it excelled in targeted molecular searches, yielding up to 64% data savings.
For dataset compilation, AL performance was sensitive to GP noise settings and acquisition strategies.
Optimal AL performance for targeted searches occurred when target molecules had minimal overlap with the overall dataset distribution.

Conclusions:

Active learning's effectiveness is task-specific, particularly influenced by target and dataset distributions.
AL offers significant computational savings for targeted molecular searches.
Careful selection of AL strategies and understanding data distribution are key to maximizing benefits.