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Improved Chemical Prediction from Scarce Data Sets via Latent Space Enrichment

Iovanac, Nicolae C., Savoie, Brett M.·2019·The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

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Modern machine learning provides promising methods for accelerating the discovery and characterization of novel chemical species. However, in many areas experimental data remain costly and scarce, and computational models are unavailable for targeted figures of merit. Here we report a promising pathway to address this challenge by using chemical latent space enrichment, whereby disparate data sources are combined in joint prediction tasks to enable improved prediction in data-scarce applications. The approach is demonstrated for p K a prediction of moderately sized molecular species using a combination of experimentally available p K a data and density functional theory-based characterizations of the (de)protonation free energy. A novel autoencoder framework is used to create a continuous chemical latent space that is then used in single and joint training tasks for property prediction. By combining these two data sets in a jointly trained autoencoder framework, we observe mutual improvement in property prediction tasks in the scarce data limit. We also demonstrate an enrichment mechanism that is unique to latent space training, whereby training on excess computational data can mitigate the prediction losses associated with scarce experimental data and advantageously organize the latent space. These results demonstrate that disparate chemical data sources can be advantageously combined in an autoencoder framework with potential general application to data-scarce chemical learning tasks.

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  • These techniques can be applied to the latent space of models just as readily as the feature space, for example, to highlight regions of promise for enrichment or to reveal governing design principles.

    “These techniques can be applied to the latent space of models just as readily as the feature space, for example, to highlight regions of promise for enrichment (37,65) or to reveal governing design principles (64).”

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Authors
Iovanac, N. C., & Savoie, B. M.
Affiliations
Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
Corresponding author
Savoie, Brett M.
Venue
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Published
2019-04-29
Volume
123
Issue
19
Pages
4295-4302
ISSN
  • 1089-5639 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-5215
OpenAlex
W2943486344
Cited by
41
References
60
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 7
FWCI
2.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Division of Graduate Education (DGE-1333468)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
Keywords
pKa prediction, autoencoder, density functional theory, chemical property prediction

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