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Poster

Mol-AE: Auto-Encoder Based Molecular Representation Learning With 3D Cloze Test Objective

Junwei Yang · Kangjie Zheng · Siyu Long · Zaiqing Nie · Ming Zhang · Xinyu Dai · Wei-Ying Ma · Hao Zhou

Hall C 4-9 #110
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Tue 23 Jul 4:30 a.m. PDT — 6 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

3D molecular representation learning has gained tremendous interest and achieved promising performance in various downstream tasks. A series of recent approaches follow a prevalent framework: an encoder-only model coupled with a coordinate denoising objective. However, through a series of analytical experiments, we prove that the encoder-only model with coordinate denoising objective exhibits inconsistency between pre-training and downstream objectives, as well as issues with disrupted atomic identifiers. To address these two issues, we propose Mol-AE for molecular representation learning, an auto-encoder model using positional encoding as atomic identifiers. We also propose a new training objective named 3D Cloze Test to make the model learn better atom spatial relationships from real molecular substructures. Empirical results demonstrate that Mol-AE achieves a large margin performance gain compared to the current state-of-the-art 3D molecular modeling approach.

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