Table 1 Performance of our RetroExplainer and the state-of-the-art methods on USPTO-50K benchmarks

From: Retrosynthesis prediction with an interpretable deep-learning framework based on molecular assembly tasks

Model

Top-k accuracy (%)

Reaction class known

Reaction class unknown

 

k = 1

3

5

10

1

3

5

10

Fingerprint-based

RetroSim41

52.9

73.8

81.2

88.1

37.3

54.7

63.3

74.1

NeuralSym8

55.3

76.0

81.4

85.1

44.4

65.3

72.4

78.9

Sequence-based

SCROP59

59.0

74.8

78.1

81.1

43.7

60.0

65.2

68.7

LV-Transformer23

-

-

-

-

40.5

65.1

72.8

79.4

AutoSynRoute60

-

-

-

-

43.1

64.6

71.8

78.7

TiedTransformer61

-

-

-

-

47.1

67.1

73.1

76.3

MolBART62

-

-

-

-

55.6

-

74.2

80.9

Retroformer63

64.0

82.5

86.7

90.2

53.2

71.7

76.6

82.1

RetroPrime64

64.8

81.6

85.0

86.9

51.4

70.8

74.0

76.1

R-SMILES65

-

-

-

 

56.3

79.2

86.2

91.0

DualTF46

65.7

81.9

84.7

85.9

53.6

70.7

74.6

77.0

Graph-based

GLN36

64.2

79.1

85.2

90.0

52.5

69.0

75.6

83.7

G2Gs17

61.0

81.3

86.0

88.7

48.9

67.6

72.5

75.5

G2GT18

-

-

-

-

54.1

69.9

74.5

77.7

GTA16

-

-

-

-

51.1

67.6

73.8

80.1

GraphRetro33

63.9

81.5

85.2

88.1

53.7

68.3

72.2

75.5

Graph2SMILES39

-

-

-

-

52.9

66.5

70.0

72.9

RetroXpert32

62.1

75.8

78.5

80.9

50.4

61.1

62.3

63.4

GET38

57.4

71.3

74.8

77.4

44.9

58.8

62.4

65.9

LocalRetro57

63.9

86.8

92.4

96.0

53.4

77.5

85.9

92.4

RetroExplainer (Ours)

66.8

88.0

92.5

95.8

57.7

79.2

84.8

91.4

  1. The performance regarding existing methods is derived from their references. The best-performing results are marked in bold.