MoFlow generates chemically valid molecular graphs from latent representations.
problem Generating chemically valid molecular graphs from latent representations is challenging.
method MoFlow uses a flow-based approach with Glow for bond generation and a novel graph conditional flow for atom generation, ensuring chemical validity and efficiency.
result MoFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance in molecular graph generation and optimization.
Molecular "fingerprints" encoding structural information are the workhorse of cheminformatics and machine learning in drug discovery applications. However, fingerprint representations necessarily emphasize particular aspects of the molecular structure while ignoring others, rather than allowing the model to make data-d…
XIMP improves molecular property prediction by integrating multiple graph representations.
problem Graph neural networks struggle in data-scarce regimes and fail to surpass traditional methods.
method Cross-graph inter-message passing with multiple graph abstractions.
result XIMP outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across diverse molecular property tasks.
Study compares GNNs and classical molecular featurisations for molecular property and cliff prediction.
problem Comparing GNNs and classical featurisations for molecular property and cliff prediction.
method Systematic exploration and comparison of PDVs, ECFPs, and GNNs; introduction of substructure pooling.
result Sort & Slice outperforms hash-based folding in ECFP vectorization.
We present RL-VAE, a graph-to-graph variational autoencoder that uses reinforcement learning to decode molecular graphs from latent embeddings. Methods have been described previously for graph-to-graph autoencoding, but these approaches require sophisticated decoders that increase the complexity of training and evaluat…
Tiered latent representations and latent spaces for molecular graphs provide a simple but effective way to explicitly represent and utilize groups (e.g., functional groups), which consist of the atom (node) tier, the group tier and the molecule (graph) tier. They can be learned using the tiered graph autoencoder archit…
We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. In computational terms, this task involves continuous embedding and generation of molecular graphs. Our primary contribution is the direct realization of molecular graphs, a task previously approached by generating linear SMILES strings …
A new neural network model for molecular graphs that learns efficiently and accurately.
problem Learning on molecular graphs with cycles and complex structures.
method Hierarchical inter-message passing using raw graph and junction tree representations.
result The model outperforms classical GNNs in detecting cycles and is efficient to train.
Neural network learns from higher-order connections in molecules.
problem Graph neural networks fail to account for local and hidden structures in graphs.
method Developed a neural network that can pass messages and aggregate information across higher-order paths.
result The model improves molecular property prediction.
A Graph Neural Network model for generating molecular graphs.
problem Designing new drug molecules efficiently and cost-effectively.
method Sequential molecular graph generator based on Graph Neural Networks.
result The model can generate molecular graphs without overfitting and outperforms existing methods.
We view molecular optimization as a graph-to-graph translation problem. The goal is to learn to map from one molecular graph to another with better properties based on an available corpus of paired molecules. Since molecules can be optimized in different ways, there are multiple viable translations for each input graph…
Advanced GNNs improve molecular generation models.
problem Generating complete graphs with multiple nodes and edges based on labels.
method Replaced standard GNNs with more expressive GNNs in autoregressive and one-shot generation models.
result Advanced GNNs can improve performance of graph generative models, but expressiveness is not a necessity.
Recent work in graph neural networks (GNNs) has led to improvements in molecular activity and property prediction tasks. Unfortunately, GNNs often fail to capture the relative importance of interactions between molecular substructures, in part due to the absence of efficient intermediate pooling steps. To address these…
MolHF generates complex molecules with hierarchical flow-based model.
problem Designing novel molecular structures with desired properties.
method MolHF is a hierarchical normalizing flow model that generates molecular graphs in a coarse-to-fine manner.
result MolHF achieves state-of-the-art performance in random generation and property optimization.
Model predicts stable molecules with AI and physics constraints.
problem Designing stable molecules with limited data.
method Graph Scattering Variational Autoencoder with physical constraints.
result Model generates stable molecules with desired properties.
We propose GraphNVP, the first invertible, normalizing flow-based molecular graph generation model. We decompose the generation of a graph into two steps: generation of (i) an adjacency tensor and (ii) node attributes. This decomposition yields the exact likelihood maximization on graph-structured data, combined with t…
Molecule property prediction is a fundamental problem for computer-aided drug discovery and materials science. Quantum-chemical simulations such as density functional theory (DFT) have been widely used for calculating the molecule properties, however, because of the heavy computational cost, it is difficult to search a…
Graph Polish optimizes molecular structures by minimizing changes and maximizing preservation.
problem Error-prone traditional molecular optimization methods.
method Graph Polish transforms optimization into a polishing task, focusing on optimization centers and minimizing changes.
result Significant advantage over state-of-the-art methods on multiple optimization tasks.
Much of the recent work on learning molecular representations has been based on Graph Convolution Networks (GCN). These models rely on local aggregation operations and can therefore miss higher-order graph properties. To remedy this, we propose Path-Augmented Graph Transformer Networks (PAGTN) that are explicitly built…
Study compares atom representations in graph neural networks for molecular properties.
problem Incorrect attribution of results in molecular property prediction due to varying atom features.
method Evaluated multiple atom representations on free energy, solubility, and metabolic stability predictions.
result Different atom representations can lead to varying predictive performance in graph neural networks.
Two new minor minimal intrinsically chiral graphs identified.
problem Identifying intrinsically chiral graphs in molecular structures.
method Analyzing graph symmetry and embedding properties.
result Found two new minor minimal intrinsically chiral graphs Γ7 and Γ8. HiGraphDTI learns drug and target representations from molecular graphs to predict DTIs.
problem Inaccurate drug-target interaction prediction due to insufficient chemical information extraction.
method Hierarchical graph representation learning to extract chemical information from atoms, motifs, and molecules.
result HiGraphDTI outperforms state-of-the-art methods in DTI prediction and interaction interpretation.
GCPNet improves molecular graph learning for protein structure and binding.
problem Learning from 3D molecular graphs for protein structure and binding.
method SE(3)-equivariant graph neural network for 3D molecular graphs.
result GCPNet achieves state-of-the-art performance in multiple molecular tasks.
DECAF optimizes molecular graphs for ensemble properties, improving drug design accuracy.
problem Designing molecules with ensemble properties rather than single conformations.
method DECAF uses Boltzmann-expected design with decoupled annealing flows to optimize molecular graphs.
result DECAF optimizes molecular graphs to shift ensemble properties towards targets, improving accuracy over single-conformer methods.
G2Gs transforms target molecules into reactants without templates, improving accuracy.
problem Predicting retrosynthesis from target molecules efficiently and accurately.
method Transforming target molecular graphs into reactant graphs via variational graph translation.
result G2Gs achieves top-1 accuracy close to state-of-the-art template-based methods.
The problem of accelerating drug discovery relies heavily on automatic tools to optimize precursor molecules to afford them with better biochemical properties. Our work in this paper substantially extends prior state-of-the-art on graph-to-graph translation methods for molecular optimization. In particular, we realize …
A new model designs molecular latent vectors for drug discovery.
problem Designing effective molecular descriptors from molecular structures.
method Proposes a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for variational autoencoding molecular graphs.
result Demonstrates superior prediction performance and robustness compared to existing approaches.
A new graph model HMG and neural network HMGNN improve molecule property predictions.
problem Predicting quantum mechanical properties of molecules with limited consideration of many-body interactions.
method Introducing heterogeneous molecular graphs (HMG) and building HMGNN on neural message passing scheme.
result HMGNN achieves state-of-the-art performance in 9 out of 12 tasks on the QM9 dataset.
GemNet improves molecular predictions by overcoming graph neural network limitations.
problem Graph neural networks struggle with distinguishing certain types of molecular graphs.
method Discretized geometric message passing neural network (GemNet) with spherical representations.
result GemNet outperforms previous models on molecular datasets by 34-20%.
A new unpooling layer enhances graph generation in molecular models.
problem Efficient graph generation for complex models like molecules.
method Trainable unpooling layer that enlarges and restructures graphs.
result The unpooling layer improves graph generation in molecular models.
MV-GNN improves molecular property prediction by integrating atom and bond information.
problem Accurately predicting molecular properties using graph neural networks.
method Multi-View Graph Neural Network (MV-GNN) architecture with shared self-attentive readout and cross-dependent message passing.
result MV-GNN achieves superior performance on molecular property prediction benchmarks.
DeepGG generates graph distributions for drug discovery and molecular design.
problem Learning graph distributions for various applications.
method Improved deep graph generator based on deep state machines with graph and node embeddings.
result The state machine design favors specific graph distributions.
Improved molecular property prediction using WL embedding in GNNs.
problem Limited performance of GNNs in predicting molecular properties.
method Explored Weisfeiler-Lehman (WL) embedding to replace GNN layers, enhancing representability and performance.
result WL embedding consistently improves GNN performance across multiple datasets.
Deep learning predicts drug side-effects from molecular graphs.
problem Predicting drug side-effects from molecular structures.
method Recurrent Graph Neural Networks for multi-class multi-label graph-focused classification.
result Improved classification capability compared to previous methods.
Framework for training-free guidance in discrete diffusion models for molecular generation.
problem No equivalent training-free guidance methods for discrete diffusion models.
method Framework using guidance functions for discrete data.
result Demonstrated utility on molecular graph generation tasks.
Automates GNN design for molecular property prediction.
problem Designing and tuning GNN architectures for molecular property prediction is labor-intensive.
method Developed a NAS approach to automatically discover high-performing GNN architectures for MPNNs.
result Automatically discovered MPNNs outperform manually designed GNNs in molecular property prediction.
Advancements in neural machinery have led to a wide range of algorithmic solutions for molecular property prediction. Two classes of models in particular have yielded promising results: neural networks applied to computed molecular fingerprints or expert-crafted descriptors, and graph convolutional neural networks that…
Statistical generative models for molecular graphs attract attention from many researchers from the fields of bio- and chemo-informatics. Among these models, invertible flow-based approaches are not fully explored yet. In this paper, we propose a powerful invertible flow for molecular graphs, called graph residual flow…
Sparse molecular representations improve interpretability in graph neural networks.
problem Difficulty in understanding which molecular graph aspects drive deep learning predictions.
method Constrain weights in a graph convolutional neural network using the Gini index to maximize representation inequality.
result The Gini-constrained approach does not degrade evaluation metrics and allows for interpretable representation combination.
ASGN uses active semi-supervised learning to predict molecular properties efficiently.
problem Predicting molecular properties with scarce labeled data and high computational cost.
method ASGN combines a teacher-student framework with active learning to handle joint representation and property learning.
result ASGN achieves remarkable performance in property prediction on public datasets.
We introduce a convolutional neural network that operates directly on graphs. These networks allow end-to-end learning of prediction pipelines whose inputs are graphs of arbitrary size and shape. The architecture we present generalizes standard molecular feature extraction methods based on circular fingerprints. We sho…
Paper tackles multi-task learning for molecular property prediction with limited data.
problem Limited labeled data for each molecular property task in drug discovery.
method Proposes SGNN-EBM method to utilize relation graph between tasks and improve multi-task learning performance.
result Empirical results show the effectiveness of SGNN-EBM.
Two regularization techniques improve GCNN explainability and preference from chemists.
problem Difficulty in rationalizing molecular graph neural network predictions.
method Batch Representation Orthonormalization (BRO) and Gini regularization applied during GCNN training.
result Regularization improves GCNN attribution methods and preference from chemists.
Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a popular architecture for the analysis of chemical molecules, and it has numerous applications in material and medicinal science. Current lines of GNNs developed for molecular analysis, however, do not fit well on the training set, and their performance does not scale well with the comple…
BayReL learns molecular interactions across multi-omics data.
problem Inferring meaningful interactions across diverse molecular data types.
method BayReL uses Bayesian representation learning with graph models to integrate multi-omics data.
result BayReL outperforms existing methods in inferring molecular interactions.
GraphBSI generates graphs by refining a belief in continuous space, outperforming existing models.
problem Generating discrete, unordered graph data is challenging for traditional models.
method GraphBSI uses Bayesian Sample Inference (BSI) to iteratively refine a belief over graph distribution parameters.
result GraphBSI outperforms existing one-shot graph generative models on molecular and synthetic graph generation benchmarks.
Graph Energy Matching improves generation quality for molecular graphs.
problem Discrete energy-based models struggle with efficient and high-quality sampling for graph generation.
method Inspired by transport-map optimization, Graph Energy Matching learns a permutation-invariant potential energy to guide sampling.
result GEM matches or surpasses discrete diffusion baselines on molecular graph benchmarks.
New method generates molecular conformations efficiently.
problem Generating accurate molecular conformations efficiently.
method Variational approximation of rotatable bond torsion angles as a mixture of von Mises distributions.
result VonMisesNet generates conformations orders of magnitude faster than existing methods.