Uncertainty; Optimization; Computational chemistry; Drug design

Improving Black-box Optimization in VAE Latent Space Using Decoder Uncertainty

Improving Black-box Optimization in VAE Latent Space Using Decoder Uncertainty

NeurIPS, 2021. A framework that uses the epistemic uncertainty of the decoder of a VAE to guide the optimization of properties of high-dimensional structured objects (e.g., molecules) in latent space.