(2020) Identifying Domains of Applicability of Machine Learning Models for Materials Science.
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Abstract
Although machine learning (ML) models promise to substantially accelerate the discovery of novel materials, their performance is often still insufficient to draw reliable conclusions. Improved ML models are therefore actively researched, but their design is currently guided mainly by monitoring the average model test error. This can render different models indistinguishable although their performance differs substantially across materials, or it can make a model appear generally insufficient while it actually works well in specific sub-domains. Here, we present a method, based on subgroup discovery, for detecting domains of applicability (DA) of models within a materials class. The utility of this approach is demonstrated by analyzing three state-of-the-art ML models for predicting the formation energy of transparent conducting oxides. We find that, despite having a mutually indistinguishable and unsatisfactory average error, the models have DAs with distinctive features and notably improved performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Jilles Vreeken (Exploratory Data Analysis) |
| Depositing User: | Anne Monzel-Busch |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2020 16:16 |
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2021 11:32 |
| Primary Research Area: | NRA1: Trustworthy Information Processing |
| URI: | https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/3252 |
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