Autonomous Drug Design with Multi-Armed Bandits

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Main Authors: Svensson, Hampus Gummesson, Bjerrum, Esben Jannik, Tyrchan, Christian, Engkvist, Ola, Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir
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author Svensson, Hampus Gummesson
Bjerrum, Esben Jannik
Tyrchan, Christian
Engkvist, Ola
Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir
author_facet Svensson, Hampus Gummesson
Bjerrum, Esben Jannik
Tyrchan, Christian
Engkvist, Ola
Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir
contents Recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation support a new drug design paradigm: autonomous drug design. Under this paradigm, generative models can provide suggestions on thousands of molecules with specific properties, and automated laboratories can potentially make, test and analyze molecules with minimal human supervision. However, since still only a limited number of molecules can be synthesized and tested, an obvious challenge is how to efficiently select among provided suggestions in a closed-loop system. We formulate this task as a stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with multiple plays, volatile arms and similarity information. To solve this task, we adapt previous work on multi-armed bandits to this setting, and compare our solution with random sampling, greedy selection and decaying-epsilon-greedy selection strategies. According to our simulation results, our approach has the potential to perform better exploration and exploitation of the chemical space for autonomous drug design.
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spellingShingle Autonomous Drug Design with Multi-Armed Bandits
Svensson, Hampus Gummesson
Bjerrum, Esben Jannik
Tyrchan, Christian
Engkvist, Ola
Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir
Machine Learning
Biomolecules
Recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation support a new drug design paradigm: autonomous drug design. Under this paradigm, generative models can provide suggestions on thousands of molecules with specific properties, and automated laboratories can potentially make, test and analyze molecules with minimal human supervision. However, since still only a limited number of molecules can be synthesized and tested, an obvious challenge is how to efficiently select among provided suggestions in a closed-loop system. We formulate this task as a stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with multiple plays, volatile arms and similarity information. To solve this task, we adapt previous work on multi-armed bandits to this setting, and compare our solution with random sampling, greedy selection and decaying-epsilon-greedy selection strategies. According to our simulation results, our approach has the potential to perform better exploration and exploitation of the chemical space for autonomous drug design.
title Autonomous Drug Design with Multi-Armed Bandits
topic Machine Learning
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01393