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Chemical Design with GPU-based Ising Machine

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Details are available at our published paper https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DD00047H.

Abstract

Ising machines are hardware-assisted discrete optimizers that often outperform purely software-based optimization. They are implemented, e.g., with superconducting qubits, ASICs or GPUs. In this paper, we show how Ising machines can be leveraged to gain efficiency improvements in automatic molecules design. To this aim, we construct a graph-based binary variational autoencoder to obtain discrete latent vectors, train a factorization machine as a surrogate model, and optimize it with an Ising machine. In comparison to Bayesian optimization in a continuous latent space, our method performed better in three benchmarking problems. Two types of Ising machines, qubit-based D-Wave quantum annealer and GPU-based Fixstars Amplify, are compared to observe that GPU-based one scales better and more suitable for molecule generation. Our results show that GPU-based Ising machines have the potential to empower deep-learning-based materials design.

<p align="center"> <img src="https://github.com/tsudalab/bVAE-IM/blob/main/overview.png" width="600"> </p>

The implementation of binary VAE is based on the work Junction Tree Variational Autoencoder for Molecular Graph Generation.

Requirements

amplify==0.9.1
joblib==1.1.0
matplotlib==3.5.2
networkx==2.6.3
numexpr==2.8.1
numpy==1.21.5
rdkit==2022.9.5
scikit_learn==1.2.1
scipy==1.7.3
torch==1.11.0
tqdm==4.64.0

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Zetian Mao (zmao@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Department of Computational Biology and Medical Science
The University of Tokyo
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