Issue 23, 2020

Powerful, transferable representations for molecules through intelligent task selection in deep multitask networks

Abstract

Chemical representations derived from deep learning are emerging as a powerful tool in areas such as drug discovery and materials innovation. Currently, this methodology has three major limitations – the cost of representation generation, risk of inherited bias, and the requirement for large amounts of data. We propose the use of multi-task learning in tandem with transfer learning to address these limitations directly. In order to avoid introducing unknown bias into multi-task learning through the task selection itself, we calculate task similarity through pairwise task affinity, and use this measure to programmatically select tasks. We test this methodology on several real-world data sets to demonstrate its potential for execution in complex and low-data environments. Finally, we utilise the task similarity to further probe the expressiveness of the learned representation through a comparison to a commonly used cheminformatics fingerprint, and show that the deep representation is able to capture more expressive task-based information.

Graphical abstract: Powerful, transferable representations for molecules through intelligent task selection in deep multitask networks

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 4 2020
Accepted
26 5 2020
First published
28 5 2020

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020,22, 13041-13048

Powerful, transferable representations for molecules through intelligent task selection in deep multitask networks

C. Fare, L. Turcani and E. O. Pyzer-Knapp, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 13041 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP02319A

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