Expensive or not, they didn't do it, so we don't know if those compounds actually work. Am I missing something or did they also not use a held-out validation d

Expensive or not, they didn't do it, so we don't know if those compounds actually work. Am I missing something or did they also not use a held-out validation dataset to assess performance? It seems to me they ran their autoencoder, got some suggested compounds, listed anecdotal evidence about those compounds, and called it a day.