TWO-STAGE SAMPLING FOR ACCELERATED DEFORMULATION GENERATION

A device receives an ingredient list having a sequence of ingredients ordered by relative amount, and generates formulation vectors by sampling the ingredients list. The device inputs the plurality of formulation vectors into a machine-learned model, the machine-learned model generating an encoded version of each of the plurality of formulation vectors using an encoder, and then outputting a plurality of reconstructed formulation vectors as derived using a decoder. The device identifies reconstructed formulation vectors that have an order that matches the sequence, defines a latent space using the encoded version of the matching reconstructed formulation vectors. The device iteratively samples the latent space until a threshold number of samples are derived that match an ordering constraint that corresponds to the sequence, performs a statistical aggregation of the samples, and outputs an indication of an absolute amount of each ingredient in the ingredients list.