About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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AI/ML/Data Informatics for Materials Discovery: Bridging Experiment, Theory, and Modeling
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Presentation Title |
Evaluation of Out-of-Distribution Errors in Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Materials Discovery |
Author(s) |
Peter Schindler |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Peter Schindler |
Abstract Scope |
Equivariant graph neural networks (E3GNNs), which enforce the symmetries of three-dimensional Euclidean space, have shown strong performance in predicting materials properties. By directly embedding physical symmetries into their architecture, E3GNNs generate more expressive features, promising improved generalizability while requiring less training data compared to invariant models.
The out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization error serves as a valuable metric for assessing a model's true ability to generalize to unseen data. Recently, we have established an open-source Python toolkit, MatFold, which automates the construction of chemical and structural data splits, facilitating OOD generalization evaluation for the materials informatics community.
Here, I will present recent work employing MatFold to analyze the generalization error of E3GNN models trained on our surface property dataset and various benchmarking datasets. Specifically, I will compare the OOD generalization performance and its dataset size dependence of the equivariant and invariant models for various chemical and structural holdouts of increasing difficulty. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Computational Materials Science & Engineering, Machine Learning, Modeling and Simulation |