Table 2. 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 58 000 molecules. The starting dataset here refers to the dataset with 58 000 molecules.
| Search algorithm | Unique new evaluations | Unique molecules with Fcomb > 0 | Rate of discovery of molecules with Fcomb > 0 | Molecules found better than starting dataset. (outstanding molecules) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO-Learned | 841 | 458 | 54% | 4 |
| BO-Mord | 1273 | 406 | 31% | 5 |
| BO-Prop | 1799 | 893 | 50% | 2 |
| SUEA | 1037 | 1004 | 86% | 1 |
| EA | 1637 | 544 | 32% | 7 |
| Rand | 1236 | 0 | 0% | 0 |