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Recent reasoning-based large language models have shown strong performance on tasks with verifiable outcomes, but their use in de novo molecular generation remains limited by the lack of training environments where rewards can be computed…
Molecular structure generation is a fundamental problem that involves determining the 3D positions of molecules' constituents. It has crucial biological applications, such as molecular docking, protein folding, and molecular design. Recent…
Deep generative models have recently emerged as a promising de novo drug design method. In this respect, deep generative conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) models are a powerful approach for generating novel molecules with desired…
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