E(3)-equivariant models cannot learn chirality: Field-based molecular generation

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Autores principales: Dumitrescu, Alexandru, Korpela, Dani, Heinonen, Markus, Verma, Yogesh, Iakovlev, Valerii, Garg, Vikas, Lähdesmäki, Harri
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Publicado: 2024
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author Dumitrescu, Alexandru
Korpela, Dani
Heinonen, Markus
Verma, Yogesh
Iakovlev, Valerii
Garg, Vikas
Lähdesmäki, Harri
author_facet Dumitrescu, Alexandru
Korpela, Dani
Heinonen, Markus
Verma, Yogesh
Iakovlev, Valerii
Garg, Vikas
Lähdesmäki, Harri
contents Obtaining the desired effect of drugs is highly dependent on their molecular geometries. Thus, the current prevailing paradigm focuses on 3D point-cloud atom representations, utilizing graph neural network (GNN) parametrizations, with rotational symmetries baked in via E(3) invariant layers. We prove that such models must necessarily disregard chirality, a geometric property of the molecules that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image by rotation and translation. Chirality plays a key role in determining drug safety and potency. To address this glaring issue, we introduce a novel field-based representation, proposing reference rotations that replace rotational symmetry constraints. The proposed model captures all molecular geometries including chirality, while still achieving highly competitive performance with E(3)-based methods across standard benchmarking metrics.
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spellingShingle E(3)-equivariant models cannot learn chirality: Field-based molecular generation
Dumitrescu, Alexandru
Korpela, Dani
Heinonen, Markus
Verma, Yogesh
Iakovlev, Valerii
Garg, Vikas
Lähdesmäki, Harri
Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
Biomolecules
Obtaining the desired effect of drugs is highly dependent on their molecular geometries. Thus, the current prevailing paradigm focuses on 3D point-cloud atom representations, utilizing graph neural network (GNN) parametrizations, with rotational symmetries baked in via E(3) invariant layers. We prove that such models must necessarily disregard chirality, a geometric property of the molecules that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image by rotation and translation. Chirality plays a key role in determining drug safety and potency. To address this glaring issue, we introduce a novel field-based representation, proposing reference rotations that replace rotational symmetry constraints. The proposed model captures all molecular geometries including chirality, while still achieving highly competitive performance with E(3)-based methods across standard benchmarking metrics.
title E(3)-equivariant models cannot learn chirality: Field-based molecular generation
topic Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15864