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String models exploit biases in MoleculeNet SMILES dialect to inflate performance #2

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@cyrusmaher

Following up on a conversation with Meng Liu, I wanted to link this bug. I confirmed it for ClinTox, but it may be present for other datasets:
deepchem/moleculenet#15

One set of solutions would be:

  • Refactoring input parsing code to be shared across models
  • Adding smiles canonicalization to input parsing: from rdkit import Chem; Chem.MolToSmiles(Chem.MolFromSmiles(smiles), canonical=True)
  • Re-running string-based models on all benchmarks

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