MatWheel: Addressing Data Scarcity in Materials Science Through Synthetic Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09152v1
• Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:31:29 GMT
• Title: MatWheel: Addressing Data Scarcity in Materials Science Through Synthetic Data
• Authors: Wentao Li, Yizhe Chen, Jiangjie Qiu, Xiaonan Wang,
• Abstract summary: We propose the MatWheel framework, which train the material property prediction model using the synthetic data generated by the conditional generative model.<n>Using CGCNN for property prediction and Con-CDVAE as the conditional generative model, experiments on two data-scarce material property datasets from Matminer database are conducted.<n>Results show that synthetic data has potential in extreme data-scarce scenarios, achieving performance close to or exceeding that of real samples in all two tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Data scarcity and the high cost of annotation have long been persistent challenges in the field of materials science. Inspired by its potential in other fields like computer vision, we propose the MatWheel framework, which train the material property prediction model using the synthetic data generated by the conditional generative model. We explore two scenarios: fully-supervised and semi-supervised learning. Using CGCNN for property prediction and Con-CDVAE as the conditional generative model, experiments on two data-scarce material property datasets from Matminer database are conducted. Results show that synthetic data has potential in extreme data-scarce scenarios, achieving performance close to or exceeding that of real samples in all two tasks. We also find that pseudo-labels have little impact on generated data quality. Future work will integrate advanced models and optimize generation conditions to boost the effectiveness of the materials data flywheel.

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