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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

Benchmarking the robustness of the correct identification of flexible 3D objects using common machine learning models.

Yang Zhang, Andreas Vitalis

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Yang ZhangDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Andreas VitalisDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

True three-dimensional (3D) data are prevalent in domains such as molecular science or computer vision. In these data, machine learning models are often asked to identify objects subject to intrinsic flexibility. Our study introduces two datasets from molecular science to assess the classification robustness of common model/feature combinations. Molecules are flexible, and shapes alone offer intra-class heterogeneities that yield a high risk for confusions. By blocking training and test sets to reduce overlap, we establish a baseline requiring the trained models to abstract from shape. As training data coverage grows, all tested architectures perform better on unseen data with reduced overfitting. Empirically, 2D embeddings of voxelized data produced the best-performing models. Evidently, both featurization and task-appropriate model design are of continued importance, the latter point reinforced by comparisons to recent, more specialized models. Finally, we show that the shape abstraction learned from database samples extends to samples that are evolving explicitly in time.

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3D spatial databenchmark setfeaturizationflexible object recognitionmachine learningmolecular dynamicsmolecular sciencestructural representation

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PMID39896260
PMCPMC11783895

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