Size Doesn’t Matter: Predicting Physico- or Biochemical Properties Based on Dozens of Molecules
- 16 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 12 (38), 9213-9219
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02477
Abstract
The use of machine learning in chemistry has become a common practice. At the same time, despite the success of modern machine learning methods, the lack of data limits their use. Using a transfer learning methodology can help solve this problem. This methodology assumes that a model built on a sufficient amount of data captures general features of the chemical compound structure on which it was trained and that the further reuse of these features on a data set with a lack of data will greatly improve the quality of the new model. In this paper, we develop this approach for small organic molecules, implementing transfer learning with graph convolutional neural networks. The paper shows a significant improvement in the performance of the models for target properties with a lack of data. The effects of the data set composition on the model’s quality and the applicability domain of the resulting models are also considered.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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