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20162026
most citedProbing out-of-distribution generalization in machine learning for materials

63 citations · 121 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Diversity-Aware Active Learning Builds Materials Datasets for Current and Future Objectives

Rafael Espinosa Castañeda, Ashley Dale, Hongchen Wang +6

Materials science data collection can be expensive, making dataset reuse and long-term utility important for future discovery. In practice, data collection often prioritizes proper…

cs.LG2026

Vendi Novelty Scores for Out-of-Distribution Detection

Amey P. Pasarkar, Adji Bousso Dieng

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical for the safe deployment of machine learning systems. Existing post-hoc detectors typically rely on model confidence scores or likeli…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Are neural scaling laws leading quantum chemistry astray?

Siwoo Lee, Adji Bousso Dieng

Neural scaling laws are driving the machine learning community toward training ever-larger foundation models across domains, assuring high accuracy and transferable representations…

q-bio.PE2025

Applications of the Vendi score in genomic epidemiology

Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Amey P. Pasarkar, Qiqi Yang +2

The Vendi score (VS), a diversity metric recently conceived in the context of machine learning, with applications in a wide range of fields, has a few distinct advantages over the…

q-bio.PE2025

A Unified and Predictive Measure of Functional Diversity

Adji Bousso Dieng, Amey Pasarkar

Despite the critical role of functional diversity (FD) in understanding ecological systems and processes, its robust quantification remains a significant challenge. A long-held vie…

q-bio.PE2025

Rethinking Ecological Measures Of Functional Diversity

Ines Meraoumia, Adji Bousso Dieng

Understanding functional diversity, the range and variability of species' roles and actions within their communities, is key to predicting and preserving the functions that sustain…

physics.chem-ph2025

MuAPBEK: An Improved Analytical Kinetic Energy Density Functional for Quantum Chemistry

Siwoo Lee, Adji Bousso Dieng

Orbital-free density functional theory (OFDFT) offers a true realization of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorems, enabling full quantum-mechanical studies of electronic systems based solely…

cs.LG2025

Building Machine Learning Challenges for Anomaly Detection in Science

Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Yuan-Tang Chou, Ekaterina Govorkova +148

Scientific discoveries are often made by finding a pattern or object that was not predicted by the known rules of science. Oftentimes, these anomalous events or objects that do not…

cs.LG2025

The Vendiscope: An Algorithmic Microscope For Data Collections

Amey P. Pasarkar, Adji Bousso Dieng

The evolution of microscopy, beginning with its invention in the late 16th century, has continuously enhanced our ability to explore and understand the microscopic world, enabling…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Vendi-RAG: Adaptively Trading-Off Diversity And Quality Significantly Improves Retrieval Augmented Generation With LLMs

Mohammad Reza Rezaei, Adji Bousso Dieng

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific question-answering (QA) tasks by leveraging external knowledge sources. However, trad…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 16 cited

LLM4Mat-Bench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Materials Property Prediction

Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Kangming Li, Jason Hattrick-Simpers +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in materials science. However, little attention has been given to benchmarking and standardized evaluation for LLM-based ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 63 cited

Probing out-of-distribution generalization in machine learning for materials

Kangming Li, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Xiangyun Lei +5

Scientific machine learning (ML) endeavors to develop generalizable models with broad applicability. However, the assessment of generalizability is often based on heuristics. Here,…

cs.CL2023★ 29 cited

LLM-Prop: Predicting Physical And Electronic Properties Of Crystalline Solids From Their Text Descriptions

Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Craig Arnold, Barry P. Rand +1

The prediction of crystal properties plays a crucial role in the crystal design process. Current methods for predicting crystal properties focus on modeling crystal structures usin…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Markov Chain Score Ascent: A Unifying Framework of Variational Inference with Markovian Gradients

Kyurae Kim, Jisu Oh, Jacob R. Gardner +2

Minimizing the inclusive Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is challenging since its gradient is defined as an integral over the posterior. Rec…

stat.ML2016★ 8 cited

Variational Inference via -Upper Bound Minimization

Adji B. Dieng, Dustin Tran, Rajesh Ranganath +2

Variational inference (VI) is widely used as an efficient alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo. It posits a family of approximating distributions and finds the closest membe…