MAGNet: Motif-Agnostic Generation of Molecules from Shapes

05/30/2023
by   Leon Hetzel, et al.
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Recent advances in machine learning for molecules exhibit great potential for facilitating drug discovery from in silico predictions. Most models for molecule generation rely on the decomposition of molecules into frequently occurring substructures (motifs), from which they generate novel compounds. While motif representations greatly aid in learning molecular distributions, such methods struggle to represent substructures beyond their known motif set. To alleviate this issue and increase flexibility across datasets, we propose MAGNet, a graph-based model that generates abstract shapes before allocating atom and bond types. To this end, we introduce a novel factorisation of the molecules' data distribution that accounts for the molecules' global context and facilitates learning adequate assignments of atoms and bonds onto shapes. While the abstraction to shapes introduces greater complexity for distribution learning, we show the competitive performance of MAGNet on standard benchmarks. Importantly, we demonstrate that MAGNet's improved expressivity leads to molecules with more topologically distinct structures and, at the same time, diverse atom and bond assignments.

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