Retrosynthetic Planning with Experience-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search

12/11/2021
by   Siqi Hong, et al.
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Retrosynthetic planning problem is to analyze a complex molecule and give a synthetic route using simple building blocks. The huge number of chemical reactions leads to a combinatorial explosion of possibilities, and even the experienced chemists could not select the most promising transformations. The current approaches rely on human-defined or machine-trained score functions which have limited chemical knowledge or use expensive estimation methods such as rollout to guide the search. In this paper, we propose MCTS, a novel MCTS-based retrosynthetic planning approach, to deal with retrosynthetic planning problem. Instead of exploiting rollout, we build an Experience Guidance Network to learn knowledge from synthetic experiences during the search. Experiments on benchmark USPTO datasets show that, our MCTS gains significant improvement over state-of-the-art approaches both in efficiency and effectiveness.

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