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Professional creative software has steep learning curves for novices due to complex interfaces, limited guidance, and unfamiliar terminology. To support educators and tool creators in addressing learner challenges, we introduce TaskLens, an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yimeng Liu , Misha Sra

Generative models for structure-based molecular design hold significant promise for drug discovery, with the potential to speed up the hit-to-lead development cycle, while improving the quality of drug candidates and reducing costs. Data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-25 Lucian Chan , Rajendra Kumar , Marcel Verdonk , Carl Poelking

Key objectives in conditional molecular generation include ensuring chemical validity, aligning generated molecules with target properties, promoting structural diversity, and enabling efficient sampling for discovery. Recent advances in…

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in structure-based drug design in recent years, especially for generating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein pocket. Notably, diffusion models have transformed ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Daiheng Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu

The growing demand for molecules with tailored properties in fields such as drug discovery and chemical engineering has driven advancements in computational methods for molecular design. Machine learning-based approaches for de-novo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nandan Joshi , Erhan Guven

The ability to accelerate the design of biological sequences can have a substantial impact on the progress of the medical field. The problem can be framed as a global optimization problem where the objective is an expensive black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Leo Feng , Padideh Nouri , Aneri Muni , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre-Luc Bacon

Drug discovery aims to find novel compounds with specified chemical property profiles. In terms of generative modeling, the goal is to learn to sample molecules in the intersection of multiple property constraints. This task becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Scaffold hopping is a drug discovery strategy to generate new chemical entities by modifying the core structure, the \emph{scaffold}, of a known active compound. This approach preserves the essential molecular features of the original…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-16 Jos Torge , Charles Harris , Simon V. Mathis , Pietro Lio

Deep generative models such as diffusion and flow matching are powerful machine learning tools capable of learning and sampling from high-dimensional distributions. They are particularly useful when the training data appears to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Zachary Bogorad , Ibrahim Elsharkawy , Yonatan Kahn , Andrew J. Larkoski , Noam Levi

Chemical space exploration underlies drug discovery, yet most generative models treat chemical space as a fixed, implicitly learned distribution, focusing on sampling molecules rather than deliberately designing the space itself. We…

Finding drug-like compounds with high bioactivity is essential for drug discovery, but the task is complicated by the high cost of chemical synthesis and validation. With their outstanding performance in de novo drug design, deep generative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-03 Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

We introduce generative models for accelerating simulations of complex systems through learning and evolving their effective dynamics. In the proposed Generative Learning of Effective Dynamics (G-LED), instances of high dimensional data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Han Gao , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Petros Koumoutsakos

Breakthroughs in high-accuracy protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have established receptor-based molecule design as a critical driver for rapid early-phase drug discovery. However, most approaches still struggle to balance…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-18 Dong Xu , Zhangfan Yang , Ka-chun Wong , Zexuan Zhu , Jiangqiang Li , Junkai Ji

Graph generation poses a significant challenge as it involves predicting a complete graph with multiple nodes and edges based on simply a given label. This task also carries fundamental importance to numerous real-world applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Xiandong Zou , Xiangyu Zhao , Pietro Liò , Yiren Zhao

In therapeutic design, balancing various physiochemical properties is crucial for molecule development, similar to how Multiparameter Optimization (MPO) evaluates multiple variables to meet a primary goal. While many molecular features can…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-03 Agustin Kruel , Andrew D. McNaughton , Neeraj Kumar

With the advent of diffusion models, new proteins can be generated at an unprecedented rate. The motif scaffolding problem requires steering this generative process to yield proteins with a desirable functional substructure called a motif.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-06 James Matthew Young , O. Deniz Akyildiz

Efficient sampling from constraint manifolds, and thereby generating a diverse set of solutions for feasibility problems, is a fundamental challenge. We consider the case where a problem is factored, that is, the underlying nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Valentin N. Hartmann , Ozgur S. Oguz , Marc Toussaint

Deep generative models are attracting great attention for molecular design with desired properties. Most existing models generate molecules by sequentially adding atoms. This often renders generated molecules with less correlation with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Seonghwan Seo , Jaechang Lim , Woo Youn Kim

Generation of molecules with desired chemical and biological properties such as high drug-likeness, high binding affinity to target proteins, is critical for drug discovery. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic generative model to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-12 Deqian Kong , Bo Pang , Tian Han , Ying Nian Wu

Optimizing reranking in advertising feeds is a constrained combinatorial problem, requiring simultaneous maximization of platform revenue and preservation of user experience. Recent generative ranking methods enable listwise optimization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chenfei Li , Hantao Zhao , Weixi Yao , Ruiming Huang , Rongrong Lu , Geng Tian , Dongying Kong