Summary of Tokenizing 3d Molecule Structure with Quantized Spherical Coordinates, by Kaiyuan Gao et al.
Tokenizing 3D Molecule Structure with Quantized Spherical Coordinates
by Kaiyuan Gao, Yusong Wang, Haoxiang Guan, Zun Wang, Qizhi Pei, John E. Hopcroft, Kun He, Lijun Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 The proposed method, Mol-StrucTok, addresses challenges in generating 3D molecular structures using language models (LMs). The method tokenizes 3D molecular structures by designing a line notation that extracts local atomic coordinates in a spherical coordinate system. This approach leverages Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) to tokenize these coordinates as generation descriptors, incorporating neighborhood bond lengths and bond angles as understanding descriptors. A GPT-2 style model is trained for 3D molecular generation tasks, demonstrating strong performance with faster generation speeds and competitive chemical stability compared to previous methods. Additionally, integrating Mol-StrucTok’s learned discrete representations into Graphormer for property prediction on the QM9 dataset reveals consistent improvements across various molecular properties. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to generate 3D molecular structures using language models. The problem is that current methods can’t easily convert 3D coordinates into something LMs can understand. To solve this, the authors design a special notation for 3D molecules and use a special type of AI called VQ-VAE to make sense of these coordinates. They also add extra information about bond lengths and angles to help the model generate more accurate structures. The results show that their method is good at generating 3D molecular structures quickly and accurately, and it can even be used to predict properties of molecules. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Variational autoencoder
