Comment by dekhn
6 hours ago
It's still being argued if you really need SELFIES, or if SMILES autoencoders can be trained to only generate valid molecules, or if generating invalid molecules is useful (I'm in camp SELFIES, but I also want better ways to represent and learn on graphical chemical structures, ratehr than serialized strings).
can you guys explain what makes SELFIES robust? I'd only heard of SMILES until this thread, but I have been out of this space for 10 years.