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Title: Conditional generation of molecules with disentangling Authors:  Amina Mollaysa - University of Geneva, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) (Switzerland) [presenting]
Abstract: Though machine learning approaches have shown great success in estimating properties of small molecules, the inverse problem of generating molecules with desired properties remain challenging. This difficulty is in part because the set of molecules which have a given property is structurally very diverse. Treating this inverse problem as a conditional distribution estimation task, we draw upon work in learning disentangled representations to learn a conditional distribution over molecules given a desired property, where the molecular structure is encoded in a continuous latent random variable. By including property information as an input factor independent of the structure representation, we can perform conditional molecule generation via a style transfer process, in which we explicitly set the property to a desired value at generation time. In contrast to existing approaches, we disentangle the latent factors from the property factors using a regularization term which constrains the generated molecules to have the property provided to the generation network, no matter how the latent factor changes.