Can LLMs Generate Diverse Molecules? Towards Alignment with Structural Diversity

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Main Authors: Jang, Hyosoon, Jang, Yunhui, Kim, Jaehyung, Ahn, Sungsoo
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author Jang, Hyosoon
Jang, Yunhui
Kim, Jaehyung
Ahn, Sungsoo
author_facet Jang, Hyosoon
Jang, Yunhui
Kim, Jaehyung
Ahn, Sungsoo
contents Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in molecular generation, which offers potential to accelerate drug discovery. However, the current LLMs overlook a critical requirement for drug discovery: proposing a diverse set of molecules. This diversity is essential for improving the chances of finding a viable drug, as it provides alternative molecules that may succeed where others fail in real-world validations. Nevertheless, the LLMs often output structurally similar molecules. While decoding schemes like diverse beam search may enhance textual diversity, this often does not align with molecular structural diversity. In response, we propose a new method for fine-tuning molecular generative LLMs to autoregressively generate a set of structurally diverse molecules, where each molecule is generated by conditioning on the previously generated molecules. Our approach consists of two stages: (1) supervised fine-tuning to adapt LLMs to autoregressively generate molecules in a sequence and (2) reinforcement learning to maximize structural diversity within the generated molecules. Our experiments show that the proposed approach enables LLMs to generate diverse molecules better than existing approaches for diverse sequence generation.
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spellingShingle Can LLMs Generate Diverse Molecules? Towards Alignment with Structural Diversity
Jang, Hyosoon
Jang, Yunhui
Kim, Jaehyung
Ahn, Sungsoo
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in molecular generation, which offers potential to accelerate drug discovery. However, the current LLMs overlook a critical requirement for drug discovery: proposing a diverse set of molecules. This diversity is essential for improving the chances of finding a viable drug, as it provides alternative molecules that may succeed where others fail in real-world validations. Nevertheless, the LLMs often output structurally similar molecules. While decoding schemes like diverse beam search may enhance textual diversity, this often does not align with molecular structural diversity. In response, we propose a new method for fine-tuning molecular generative LLMs to autoregressively generate a set of structurally diverse molecules, where each molecule is generated by conditioning on the previously generated molecules. Our approach consists of two stages: (1) supervised fine-tuning to adapt LLMs to autoregressively generate molecules in a sequence and (2) reinforcement learning to maximize structural diversity within the generated molecules. Our experiments show that the proposed approach enables LLMs to generate diverse molecules better than existing approaches for diverse sequence generation.
title Can LLMs Generate Diverse Molecules? Towards Alignment with Structural Diversity
topic Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03138