Objective-Agnostic Enhancement of Molecule Properties via Multi-Stage VAE
Variational autoencoder (VAE) is a popular method for drug discovery and various architectures and pipelines have been proposed to improve its performance. However, VAE approaches are known to suffer from poor manifold recovery when the data lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a higher dimensional ambient space [Dai and Wipf, 2019]. The consequences of it in drug discovery are somewhat under-explored. In this paper, we explore applying a multi-stage VAE approach, that can improve manifold recovery on a synthetic dataset, to the field of drug discovery. We experimentally evaluate our multi-stage VAE approach using the ChEMBL dataset and demonstrate its ability to improve the property statistics of generated molecules substantially from pre-existing methods without incorporating property predictors into the training pipeline. We further fine-tune our models on two curated and much smaller molecule datasets that target different proteins. Our experiments show an increase in the number of active molecules generated by the multi-stage VAE in comparison to their one-stage equivalent. For each of the two tasks, our baselines include methods that use learned property predictors to incorporate target metrics directly into the training objective and we discuss complications that arise with this methodology.
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