Summary of Gflownet Pretraining with Inexpensive Rewards, by Mohit Pandey et al.
GFlowNet Pretraining with Inexpensive Rewards
by Mohit Pandey, Gopeshh Subbaraj, Emmanuel Bengio
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Atomic GFlowNets (A-GFNs), a generative model that uses individual atoms as building blocks to explore chemical space. Unlike previous approaches, which restrict exploration by using predefined molecular fragments, A-GFNs learn from unnormalized reward distributions. The authors propose an unsupervised pre-training approach using offline drug-like molecule datasets and molecular descriptors such as drug-likeliness, topological polar surface area, and synthetic accessibility scores. This approach conditions the model on inexpensive yet informative proxy rewards that guide it towards regions of chemical space with desirable pharmacological properties. The paper also implements a goal-conditioned fine-tuning process to optimize for specific target properties. Evaluation metrics show that A-GFNs outperform baseline methods in drug design. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us generate new molecular structures by learning from unnormalized reward distributions. It’s like teaching a computer how to create new molecules, but instead of starting with small pieces, it starts with individual atoms! The researchers created a special kind of model called Atomic GFlowNets (A-GFNs) that uses these atomic building blocks to explore chemical space. They also developed a way to train the model using real-world data and some helpful hints about what makes a good molecule. This could help us discover new medicines or other useful molecules more efficiently. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Generative model * Unsupervised
