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Hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search algorithms for graph Neural Networks in cheminformatics

2025· article· en· W4409487820 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputational Materials Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMachine Learning in Materials Science
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Winnipeg
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCheminformaticsHyperparameterComputer scienceArtificial neural networkGraphMachine learningArtificial intelligenceAlgorithmTheoretical computer scienceChemistryComputational chemistry

Abstract

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• Comprehensive review of cheminformatics datasets for molecular property prediction. • Survey of optimization techniques for Graph Neural Networks in cheminformatics. • Comparison of optimization methods, highlighting strengths and limitations. • Identify gaps and future directions in Graph Neural Networks for cheminformatics. Cheminformatics, an interdisciplinary field bridging chemistry and information science, leverages computational tools to analyze and interpret chemical data, playing a critical role in drug discovery, material science, and environmental chemistry. Traditional methods, reliant on rule-based algorithms and expert-curated datasets, face challenges in scalability and adaptability. Recently, machine learning and deep learning have revolutionized cheminformatics by offering data-driven approaches that uncover complex patterns in vast chemical datasets, advancing molecular property prediction, chemical reaction modeling, and de novo molecular design. Among the most promising techniques are Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling molecules in a manner that mirrors their underlying chemical structures. Despite their success, the performance of GNNs is highly sensitive to architectural choices and hyperparameters, making optimal configuration selection a non-trivial task. Neural Architecture Search (NAS) and Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) are crucial for improving GNN performance, but the complexity and computational cost of these processes have traditionally hindered progress. This review examines various strategies for automating NAS and HPO in GNNs, highlighting their potential to enhance model performance, scalability, and efficiency in key cheminformatics applications. As the field evolves, automated optimization techniques are expected to play a pivotal role in advancing GNN-based solutions in cheminformatics.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.217
Threshold uncertainty score0.873

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it