“…In recent years, computational methods, especially deep learning, have emerged as a promising avenue for drug discovery by combining domain knowledge and data-driven learning ( Button et al , 2019 ; Camacho et al , 2018 ; Hoffman et al , 2022 ; Joshi et al , 2021 ; Kotsias et al , 2020 ; LeCun et al , 2015 ; Lv et al , 2022 ; Su et al , 2019 ; von Lilienfeld and Burke, 2020 ). Among them, deep generative methods have been shown to be ideal for drug candidate discovery ( Gómez-Bombarelli et al , 2018 ; Putin et al , 2018 ; Ru et al , 2020 ; Sanchez-Lengeling and Aspuru-Guzik, 2018 ; Segler et al , 2018b ; Shaker et al , 2021 ).…”