Author

Date of Award

2022

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Document Type

Master's Paper

Degree Awarded

Master of Science (MS)

Program

Computer Science

Department

Computer Science

College

Engineering

Faculty Advisor

Ludwig, Simone

Description

Catalyst discovery is one very important task in storing renewable energy to address climate change and energy scarcity globally. Catalyst candidates can be represented by molecular descriptors and also can be modeled by graphs. Properties of catalyst candidates can be calculated by Density Functional Theory (DFT). Machine learning algorithms are applied to predict properties of catalyst candidates because DFT is computationally expensive. However, machine learning algorithms cannot operate over some standard molecular formats. Therefore, to represent molecules in the format that is required by machine learning algorithms is the primary task to tackle. Thus, this paper compared non-learned and learned representation methods. Accuracy of each representation method using RMSE are provided and discussed. The results show that the learned representations perform in a more stable manner than non-learned representations regardless of the linear models used for the downstream task.

Rights

NDSU policy 190.6.2

Rights Link

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Handle Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/32331

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