GraphXForm: Graph transformer for computer-aided molecular design

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Autori principali: Pirnay, Jonathan, Rittig, Jan G., Wolf, Alexander B., Grohe, Martin, Burger, Jakob, Mitsos, Alexander, Grimm, Dominik G.
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author Pirnay, Jonathan
Rittig, Jan G.
Wolf, Alexander B.
Grohe, Martin
Burger, Jakob
Mitsos, Alexander
Grimm, Dominik G.
author_facet Pirnay, Jonathan
Rittig, Jan G.
Wolf, Alexander B.
Grohe, Martin
Burger, Jakob
Mitsos, Alexander
Grimm, Dominik G.
contents Generative deep learning has become pivotal in molecular design for drug discovery, materials science, and chemical engineering. A widely used paradigm is to pretrain neural networks on string representations of molecules and fine-tune them using reinforcement learning on specific objectives. However, string-based models face challenges in ensuring chemical validity and enforcing structural constraints like the presence of specific substructures. We propose to instead combine graph-based molecular representations, which can naturally ensure chemical validity, with transformer architectures, which are highly expressive and capable of modeling long-range dependencies between atoms. Our approach iteratively modifies a molecular graph by adding atoms and bonds, which ensures chemical validity and facilitates the incorporation of structural constraints. We present GraphXForm, a decoder-only graph transformer architecture, which is pretrained on existing compounds and then fine-tuned using a new training algorithm that combines elements of the deep cross-entropy method and self-improvement learning. We evaluate GraphXForm on various drug design tasks, demonstrating superior objective scores compared to state-of-the-art molecular design approaches. Furthermore, we apply GraphXForm to two solvent design tasks for liquid-liquid extraction, again outperforming alternative methods while flexibly enforcing structural constraints or initiating design from existing molecular structures.
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spellingShingle GraphXForm: Graph transformer for computer-aided molecular design
Pirnay, Jonathan
Rittig, Jan G.
Wolf, Alexander B.
Grohe, Martin
Burger, Jakob
Mitsos, Alexander
Grimm, Dominik G.
Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
Biomolecules
Generative deep learning has become pivotal in molecular design for drug discovery, materials science, and chemical engineering. A widely used paradigm is to pretrain neural networks on string representations of molecules and fine-tune them using reinforcement learning on specific objectives. However, string-based models face challenges in ensuring chemical validity and enforcing structural constraints like the presence of specific substructures. We propose to instead combine graph-based molecular representations, which can naturally ensure chemical validity, with transformer architectures, which are highly expressive and capable of modeling long-range dependencies between atoms. Our approach iteratively modifies a molecular graph by adding atoms and bonds, which ensures chemical validity and facilitates the incorporation of structural constraints. We present GraphXForm, a decoder-only graph transformer architecture, which is pretrained on existing compounds and then fine-tuned using a new training algorithm that combines elements of the deep cross-entropy method and self-improvement learning. We evaluate GraphXForm on various drug design tasks, demonstrating superior objective scores compared to state-of-the-art molecular design approaches. Furthermore, we apply GraphXForm to two solvent design tasks for liquid-liquid extraction, again outperforming alternative methods while flexibly enforcing structural constraints or initiating design from existing molecular structures.
title GraphXForm: Graph transformer for computer-aided molecular design
topic Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01667