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Many important problems in science and engineering, such as drug design, involve optimizing an expensive black-box objective function over a complex, high-dimensional, and structured input space. Although machine learning techniques have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Austin Tripp , Erik Daxberger , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Real-world applications of computational fluid dynamics often involve the evaluation of quantities of interest for several distinct geometries that define the computational domain or are embedded inside it. For example, design optimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Guglielmo Padula , Francesco Romor , Giovanni Stabile , Gianluigi Rozza

Generative models in drug discovery have recently gained attention as efficient alternatives to brute-force virtual screening. However, most existing models do not account for synthesizability, limiting their practical use in real-world…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Seonghwan Seo , Minsu Kim , Tony Shen , Martin Ester , Jinkyoo Park , Sungsoo Ahn , Woo Youn Kim

Sampling-based motion planning under task constraints is challenging because the null-measure constraint manifold in the configuration space makes rejection sampling extremely inefficient, if not impossible. This paper presents a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Cihan Acar , Keng Peng Tee

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in designing novel drug molecules in recent years. A new thread of works have shown the great potential in advancing the specificity and success rate of in silico drug design by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Xingang Peng , Shitong Luo , Jiaqi Guan , Qi Xie , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Several generative models with elaborate training and sampling procedures have been proposed to accelerate structure-based drug design (SBDD); however, their empirical performance turns out to be suboptimal. We seek to better understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rafał Karczewski , Samuel Kaski , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

The potential number of drug like small molecules is estimated to be between 10^23 and 10^60 while current databases of known compounds are orders of magnitude smaller with approximately 10^8 compounds. This discrepancy has led to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Esben Jannik Bjerrum , Richard Threlfall

Generating novel drug molecules with desired biological properties is a time consuming and complex task. Conditional generative adversarial models have recently been proposed as promising approaches for de novo drug design. In this paper,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-26 Yuansan Liu , James Bailey

Discovering functional crystalline materials entails navigating an immense combinatorial design space. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the sampling of chemically plausible compositions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hyunsoo Park , Aron Walsh

Deep generative models have gained significant advancements to accelerate drug discovery by generating bioactive chemicals against desired targets. Nevertheless, most generated compounds that have been validated for potent bioactivity often…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-03 Weixin Xie , Jianhang Zhang , Qin Xie , Chaojun Gong , Youjun Xu , Luhua Lai , Jianfeng Pei

Machine learning, particularly graph learning, is gaining increasing recognition for its transformative impact across various fields. One such promising application is in the realm of molecule design and discovery, notably within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Nianzu Yang , Huaijin Wu , Kaipeng Zeng , Yang Li , Junchi Yan

Molecular generation, an essential method for identifying new drug structures, has been supported by advancements in machine learning and computational technology. However, challenges remain in multi-objective generation, model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-11 Ningfeng Liu , Jie Yu , Siyu Xiu , Xinfang Zhao , Siyu Lin , Bo Qiang , Ruqiu Zheng , Hongwei Jin , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

It remains a challenging task to generate a vast variety of novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties. In this work, a generative network complex (GNC) is proposed as a new platform for designing novel compounds, predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-01 Christopher Grow , Kaifu Gao , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Deploying generative machine learning techniques to generate novel chemical structures based on molecular fingerprint representation has been well established in molecular design. Typically, sequential learning (SL) schemes such as hidden…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-07 Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi , Karl Grantham , Isaac Tamblyn , Yifeng Li , Hsu Kiang Ooi

We develop VSD, a method for conditioning a generative model of discrete, combinatorial designs on a rare desired class by efficiently evaluating a black-box (e.g. experiment, simulation) in a batch sequential manner. We call this task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-24 Daniel M. Steinberg , Rafael Oliveira , Cheng Soon Ong , Edwin V. Bonilla

In de novo drug design, computational strategies are used to generate novel molecules with good affinity to the desired biological target. In this work, we show that recurrent neural networks can be trained as generative models for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Marwin H. S. Segler , Thierry Kogej , Christian Tyrchan , Mark P. Waller

Topology Optimization seeks to find the best design that satisfies a set of constraints while maximizing system performance. Traditional iterative optimization methods like SIMP can be computationally expensive and get stuck in local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Giorgio Giannone , Faez Ahmed

Computational models have become an essential part of exploratory protocols in cell biology, as a complement to in vivo or in vitro experiments. These virtual models have the twofold advantage of enabling access to new types of data and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Maxime Vassaux , Laurent Pieuchot , Karine Anselme , Maxence Bigerelle , Jean-Louis Milan

Despite recent advances, goal-directed generation of structured discrete data remains challenging. For problems such as program synthesis (generating source code) and materials design (generating molecules), finding examples which satisfy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Amina Mollaysa , Brooks Paige , Alexandros Kalousis