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Main Authors: Zou, Joanna, Marzouk, Youssef
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22160
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author Zou, Joanna
Marzouk, Youssef
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Marzouk, Youssef
contents The development of machine learning interatomic potentials faces a critical computational bottleneck with the generation and labeling of useful training datasets. We present a novel application of determinantal point processes (DPPs) to the task of selecting informative subsets of atomic configurations to label with reference energies and forces from costly quantum mechanical methods. Through experiments with hafnium oxide data, we show that DPPs are competitive with existing approaches to constructing compact but diverse training sets by utilizing kernels of molecular descriptors, leading to improved accuracy and robustness in machine learning representations of molecular systems. Our work identifies promising directions to employ DPPs for unsupervised training data curation with heterogeneous or multimodal data, or in online active learning schemes for iterative data augmentation during molecular dynamics simulation.
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spellingShingle Data Curation for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials by Determinantal Point Processes
Zou, Joanna
Marzouk, Youssef
Applications
Machine Learning
The development of machine learning interatomic potentials faces a critical computational bottleneck with the generation and labeling of useful training datasets. We present a novel application of determinantal point processes (DPPs) to the task of selecting informative subsets of atomic configurations to label with reference energies and forces from costly quantum mechanical methods. Through experiments with hafnium oxide data, we show that DPPs are competitive with existing approaches to constructing compact but diverse training sets by utilizing kernels of molecular descriptors, leading to improved accuracy and robustness in machine learning representations of molecular systems. Our work identifies promising directions to employ DPPs for unsupervised training data curation with heterogeneous or multimodal data, or in online active learning schemes for iterative data augmentation during molecular dynamics simulation.
title Data Curation for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials by Determinantal Point Processes
topic Applications
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22160