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. 2025 Aug 13;4(10):2781–2796. doi: 10.1039/d4dd00355a

Table 1. Summary of the metrics to compare performance of the different search approaches over the entire search space. Any approaches with pretraining components were pretrained on 20 000 molecules.

Search algorithm Unique new evaluations Unique molecules with Fcomb > 0 Rate of discovery of molecules with Fcomb > 0 Molecules found better than benchmark dataset. (outstanding molecules)
BO-Learned 2096 1439 69% 8
BO-Mord 2675 535 20% 16
BO-Prop 3868 2336 60% 1
SUEA 722 394 54% 1
EA 3614 1146 32% 1
Rand 2887 0 0% 0