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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2024

Multi-objective latent space optimization of generative molecular design models.

A N M Nafiz Abeer, Nathan M Urban, M Ryan Weil, Francis J Alexander, Byung-Jun Yoon

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5 authors.

A N M Nafiz AbeerDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Nathan M UrbanComputational Science Initiative, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.
M Ryan WeilStrategic and Data Science Initiatives, Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Francis J AlexanderComputing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Byung-Jun YoonDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

Funding

WORK ORDER 126643 B539 EXPAND IC SUITE75N91019D00024 · NIAID · LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, INC. · PI BRISCOE, LYNN · 2019 to 2025
$3932.6M
NCI NIH HHS 75N91019D00024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular design based on generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its efficiency for exploring high-dimensional molecular space to identify molecules with desired properties. While the efficacy of the initial model strongly depends on the training data, the sampling efficiency of the model for suggesting novel molecules with enhanced properties can be further enhanced via latent space optimization (LSO). In this paper, we propose a multi-objective LSO method that can significantly enhance the performance of generative molecular design (GMD). The proposed method adopts an iterative weighted retraining approach, where the respective weights of the molecules in the training data are determined by their Pareto efficiency. We demonstrate that our multi-objective GMD LSO method can significantly improve the performance of GMD for jointly optimizing multiple molecular properties.

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drug discoverygenerative molecular designGMDlatent space optimizationLSOmulti-objective optimizationVAEvariational autoencoder

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PMID39569209
PMCPMC11573897

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