no code implementations • 30 May 2019 • Zaccary Alperstein, Artem Cherkasov, Jason Tyler Rolfe
Variational autoencoders (VAEs) defined over SMILES string and graph-based representations of molecules promise to improve the optimization of molecular properties, thereby revolutionizing the pharmaceuticals and materials industries.
Ranked #1 on Molecular Graph Generation on ZINC (QED Top-3 metric)
2 code implementations • 7 Sep 2016 • Jason Tyler Rolfe
We present a novel method to train a class of probabilistic models with discrete latent variables using the variational autoencoder framework, including backpropagation through the discrete latent variables.