Summary of Quantum-inspired Reinforcement Learning For Synthesizable Drug Design, by Dannong Wang et al.
Quantum-inspired Reinforcement Learning for Synthesizable Drug Design
by Dannong Wang, Jintai Chen, Zhiding Liang, Tianfan Fu, Xiao-Yang Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel approach to synthesizable molecular design, also known as molecular optimization, using reinforcement learning and quantum-inspired simulated annealing policy neural networks. The goal is to design novel molecular structures that improve their properties according to drug-relevant oracle functions while ensuring synthetic feasibility. The authors employ a deterministic REINFORCE algorithm with policy neural networks to output transitional probabilities guiding state transitions and local search using genetic algorithms to refine solutions to a local optimum within each iteration. The method is evaluated on the Practical Molecular Optimization (PMO) benchmark framework with a 10K query budget, showing competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art genetic algorithms-based methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps scientists design new molecules that work better as medicines by using a new way of searching through all possible molecule combinations. It uses a special kind of artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning and a type of computer simulation inspired by quantum physics. The goal is to make new molecules that are easy to make in a lab while also having the right properties for medicine. The scientists tested their method on a big dataset and it worked really well, beating other methods that were used before. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Reinforcement learning
