Design of the Reward Mechanism

[mccrindlebrian]

There are many ways to design the reward mechanism.

We need to benchmark the chosen reward mechanism(s) in many ways before we can deploy this on mainnet. We need to understand the expected results in terms of miner rewards, competitiveness, dependency on hardware, etc. Main points are:

• Loss function analysis: How do the energy curves look versus number of steps (loss function)? #25
• Are losses noisy or smooth? How smooth is the energy loss surface as a function of coordinates? #20
• How does the loss curve depend on protein size and structure? #21
• How similar are loss curves across multiple miners in the same forward step? (stability) #22
• Should we use raw energy as the reward, or does it need to be scaled (log or similar) or relative? #23
• Rebasing the coordinates at the end of each forward pass or epoch so that all the miners are running the best simulation #24
• Heuristic analysis of RMSD after each forward pass, and whether we can use this to prevent lookup attacks. #26