One Set to Rule Them All: How to Obtain General Chemical Conditions via Bayesian Optimization over Curried Functions

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Autores principales: Schmid, Stefan P., Rajaonson, Ella Miray, Ser, Cher Tian, Haddadnia, Mohammad, Leong, Shi Xuan, Aspuru-Guzik, Alán, Kristiadi, Agustinus, Jorner, Kjell, Strieth-Kalthoff, Felix
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author Schmid, Stefan P.
Rajaonson, Ella Miray
Ser, Cher Tian
Haddadnia, Mohammad
Leong, Shi Xuan
Aspuru-Guzik, Alán
Kristiadi, Agustinus
Jorner, Kjell
Strieth-Kalthoff, Felix
author_facet Schmid, Stefan P.
Rajaonson, Ella Miray
Ser, Cher Tian
Haddadnia, Mohammad
Leong, Shi Xuan
Aspuru-Guzik, Alán
Kristiadi, Agustinus
Jorner, Kjell
Strieth-Kalthoff, Felix
contents General parameters are highly desirable in the natural sciences - e.g., chemical reaction conditions that enable high yields across a range of related transformations. This has a significant practical impact since those general parameters can be transferred to related tasks without the need for laborious and time-intensive re-optimization. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely applied to find optimal parameter sets for specific tasks, it has remained underused in experiment planning towards such general optima. In this work, we consider the real-world problem of condition optimization for chemical reactions to study how performing generality-oriented BO can accelerate the identification of general optima, and whether these optima also translate to unseen examples. This is achieved through a careful formulation of the problem as an optimization over curried functions, as well as systematic evaluations of generality-oriented strategies for optimization tasks on real-world experimental data. We find that for generality-oriented optimization, simple myopic optimization strategies that decouple parameter and task selection perform comparably to more complex ones, and that effective optimization is merely determined by an effective exploration of both parameter and task space.
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spellingShingle One Set to Rule Them All: How to Obtain General Chemical Conditions via Bayesian Optimization over Curried Functions
Schmid, Stefan P.
Rajaonson, Ella Miray
Ser, Cher Tian
Haddadnia, Mohammad
Leong, Shi Xuan
Aspuru-Guzik, Alán
Kristiadi, Agustinus
Jorner, Kjell
Strieth-Kalthoff, Felix
Machine Learning
J.2
General parameters are highly desirable in the natural sciences - e.g., chemical reaction conditions that enable high yields across a range of related transformations. This has a significant practical impact since those general parameters can be transferred to related tasks without the need for laborious and time-intensive re-optimization. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely applied to find optimal parameter sets for specific tasks, it has remained underused in experiment planning towards such general optima. In this work, we consider the real-world problem of condition optimization for chemical reactions to study how performing generality-oriented BO can accelerate the identification of general optima, and whether these optima also translate to unseen examples. This is achieved through a careful formulation of the problem as an optimization over curried functions, as well as systematic evaluations of generality-oriented strategies for optimization tasks on real-world experimental data. We find that for generality-oriented optimization, simple myopic optimization strategies that decouple parameter and task selection perform comparably to more complex ones, and that effective optimization is merely determined by an effective exploration of both parameter and task space.
title One Set to Rule Them All: How to Obtain General Chemical Conditions via Bayesian Optimization over Curried Functions
topic Machine Learning
J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18966