arXiv:2508.10775cs.LGq-bio.BM2025-08被引 1

在数据稀缺下,用信息瓶颈优化分子生成,提升药物设计泛化能力。

IBEX: Information-Bottleneck-EXplored Coarse-to-Fine Molecular Generation under Limited Data

  • 基于信息瓶颈理论筛选关键样本,提升模型泛化能力
  • 零样本对接成功率从53%提至64%,平均Vina得分改善至-8.07 kcal/mol
  • 适合小样本药物发现场景,尤其对结构迁移需求高的研究者

三维生成模型正推动基于结构的药物发现,但受限于公开可用的蛋白-配体复合物数据稀少。在数据匮乏情况下,现有方法难以学习可迁移的几何先验,易过拟合训练集偏差。为此,我们提出IBEX——一种基于信息瓶颈探索的粗到细分子生成框架,以应对结构药物设计中蛋白-配体复合物数据长期短缺的问题。具体而言,我们利用PAC-Bayesian信息瓶颈理论量化每个样本的信息密度,揭示不同掩码策略对泛化的影响,并发现相较于传统从头生成,受限的骨架跳跃任务赋予模型更强的有效容量和更优的迁移性能。IBEX保留TargetDiff原始架构与超参数进行训练,生成与结合口袋兼容的分子;随后通过L-BFGS优化,在不到一秒内调整六个平移旋转自由度,优化五个基于物理的能量项,精细优化构象。仅此微调,IBEX将基于CBGBench CrossDocked2020的零样本对接成功率从53%提升至64%,平均Vina得分由-7.41 kcal/mol改善至-8.07 kcal/mol,且在100个口袋中57次达到最佳中位Vina能量(原版仅3次)。此外,QED提升25%,在有效性、多样性上达当前最优,显著降低外推误差。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Three-dimensional generative models increasingly drive structure-based drug discovery, yet it remains constrained by the scarce publicly available protein-ligand complexes. Under such data scarcity, almost all existing pipelines struggle to learn transferable geometric priors and consequently overfit to training-set biases. As such, we present IBEX, an Information-Bottleneck-EXplored coarse-to-fine pipeline to tackle the chronic shortage of protein-ligand complex data in structure-based drug design. Specifically, we use PAC-Bayesian information-bottleneck theory to quantify the information density of each sample. This analysis reveals how different masking strategies affect generalization and indicates that, compared with conventional de novo generation, the constrained Scaffold Hopping task endows the model with greater effective capacity and improved transfer performance. IBEX retains the original TargetDiff architecture and hyperparameters for training to generate molecules compatible with the binding pocket; it then applies an L-BFGS optimization step to finely refine each conformation by optimizing five physics-based terms and adjusting six translational and rotational degrees of freedom in under one second. With only these modifications, IBEX raises the zero-shot docking success rate on CBGBench CrossDocked2020-based from 53% to 64%, improves the mean Vina score from $-7.41 kcal mol^{-1}$ to $-8.07 kcal mol^{-1}$, and achieves the best median Vina energy in 57 of 100 pockets versus 3 for the original TargetDiff. IBEX also increases the QED by 25%, achieves state-of-the-art validity and diversity, and markedly reduces extrapolation error.

分子生成小样本信息瓶颈药物发现

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