Hyper-Dimensional Fingerprints as Molecular Representations
Jonas Teufel, Luca Torresi, André Eberhard, Pascal Friederich
原文摘要
Numerical molecular representations underpin virtual screening, property prediction, and materials discovery. Conventional fingerprints are efficient and deterministic but lose structural information through hash-based compression at low dimensionalities, whereas graph neural networks recover expressiveness through compute-intensive, task-specific training. Here, we introduce hyperdimensional fingerprints (HDF), which compose the chemical attributes of atoms and their multi-hop environments through algebraic operations on high-dimensional vectors, producing deterministic representations without any training. Across diverse property-prediction benchmarks, HDF ranks consistently among the best representations across datasets and models. Crucially, HDF encodes structure more efficiently: at low dimensionalities, its distances correlate with graph edit distance more strongly than Morgan fingerprints', yielding effective similarity metrics and competitive nearest-neighbor regression at just 64 components. In Bayesian optimization, HDF-based surrogates are more sample-efficient than Morgan fingerprints with a Tanimoto kernel for most of the tested objectives. These results establish HDF as compact, training-free representations for property prediction, similarity search, and sample-efficient optimization.
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