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Main Authors: Yu, Kevin, Roh, Jihye, Li, Ziang, Gao, Wenhao, Wang, Runzhong, Coley, Connor W.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06334
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author Yu, Kevin
Roh, Jihye
Li, Ziang
Gao, Wenhao
Wang, Runzhong
Coley, Connor W.
author_facet Yu, Kevin
Roh, Jihye
Li, Ziang
Gao, Wenhao
Wang, Runzhong
Coley, Connor W.
contents Computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) algorithms have demonstrated expert-level abilities in planning retrosynthetic routes to molecules of low to moderate complexity. However, current search methods assume the sufficiency of reaching arbitrary building blocks, failing to address the common real-world constraint where using specific molecules is desired. To this end, we present a formulation of synthesis planning with starting material constraints. Under this formulation, we propose Double-Ended Synthesis Planning (DESP), a novel CASP algorithm under a bidirectional graph search scheme that interleaves expansions from the target and from the goal starting materials to ensure constraint satisfiability. The search algorithm is guided by a goal-conditioned cost network learned offline from a partially observed hypergraph of valid chemical reactions. We demonstrate the utility of DESP in improving solve rates and reducing the number of search expansions by biasing synthesis planning towards expert goals on multiple new benchmarks. DESP can make use of existing one-step retrosynthesis models, and we anticipate its performance to scale as these one-step model capabilities improve.
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spellingShingle Double-Ended Synthesis Planning with Goal-Constrained Bidirectional Search
Yu, Kevin
Roh, Jihye
Li, Ziang
Gao, Wenhao
Wang, Runzhong
Coley, Connor W.
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
Computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) algorithms have demonstrated expert-level abilities in planning retrosynthetic routes to molecules of low to moderate complexity. However, current search methods assume the sufficiency of reaching arbitrary building blocks, failing to address the common real-world constraint where using specific molecules is desired. To this end, we present a formulation of synthesis planning with starting material constraints. Under this formulation, we propose Double-Ended Synthesis Planning (DESP), a novel CASP algorithm under a bidirectional graph search scheme that interleaves expansions from the target and from the goal starting materials to ensure constraint satisfiability. The search algorithm is guided by a goal-conditioned cost network learned offline from a partially observed hypergraph of valid chemical reactions. We demonstrate the utility of DESP in improving solve rates and reducing the number of search expansions by biasing synthesis planning towards expert goals on multiple new benchmarks. DESP can make use of existing one-step retrosynthesis models, and we anticipate its performance to scale as these one-step model capabilities improve.
title Double-Ended Synthesis Planning with Goal-Constrained Bidirectional Search
topic Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06334