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Recent advancements in deep learning-based modeling of molecules promise to accelerate in silico drug discovery. A plethora of generative models is available, building molecules either atom-by-atom and bond-by-bond or fragment-by-fragment.…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Austin Cheng , Andy Cai , Santiago Miret , Gustavo Malkomes , Mariano Phielipp , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

In deep learning for drug discovery, chemical data are often represented as simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) sequences which allow for straightforward implementation of natural language processing methodologies, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Kathryn E. Kirchoff , Travis Maxfield , Alexander Tropsha , Shawn M. Gomez

Using generative deep learning models and reinforcement learning together can effectively generate new molecules with desired properties. By employing a multi-objective scoring function, thousands of high-scoring molecules can be generated,…

Large-scale pre-training methodologies for chemical language models represent a breakthrough in cheminformatics. These methods excel in tasks such as property prediction and molecule generation by learning contextualized representations of…

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We report a method to convert discrete representations of molecules to and from a multidimensional continuous representation. This model allows us to generate new molecules for efficient exploration and optimization through open-ended…

We propose a novel computational strategy for de novo design of molecules with desired properties termed ReLeaSE (Reinforcement Learning for Structural Evolution). Based on deep and reinforcement learning approaches, ReLeaSE integrates two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mariya Popova , Olexandr Isayev , Alexander Tropsha

Recent advances in machine learning have enabled generative models for both optimization and de novo generation of drug candidates with desired properties. Previous generative models have focused on producing SMILES strings or 2D molecular…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-25 Michael Arcidiacono , David Ryan Koes

In the field of chemical structure recognition, the task of converting molecular images into machine-readable data formats such as SMILES string stands as a significant challenge, primarily due to the varied drawing styles and conventions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yufan Chen , Ching Ting Leung , Yong Huang , Jianwei Sun , Hao Chen , Hanyu Gao

Traditional molecular string representations, such as SMILES, often pose challenges for AI-driven molecular design due to their non-sequential depiction of molecular substructures. To address this issue, we introduce Sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Emmanuel Noutahi , Cristian Gabellini , Michael Craig , Jonathan S. C Lim , Prudencio Tossou

Molecular representation is a critical element in our understanding of the physical world and the foundation for modern molecular machine learning. Previous molecular machine learning models have employed strings, fingerprints, global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Daniil A. Boiko , Thiago Reschützegger , Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling , Samuel M. Blau , Gabe Gomes

Chemical reactions are the fundamental building blocks of drug design and organic chemistry research. In recent years, there has been a growing need for a large-scale deep-learning framework that can efficiently capture the basic rules of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Bo Qiang , Yiran Zhou , Yuheng Ding , Ningfeng Liu , Song Song , Liangren Zhang , Bo Huang , Zhenming Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been used extensively for addressing problems in drug design and discovery. Both ligand and target molecules are represented as graphs with node and edge features encoding information about atomic elements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Dhananjay Bhaskar , Jackson D. Grady , Michael A. Perlmutter , Smita Krishnaswamy

De novo design of molecules has recently enjoyed the power of generative deep neural networks. Current approaches aim to generate molecules either resembling the properties of the molecules of the training set or molecules that are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-02 Ahmadreza Ghanbarpour , Markus A. Lill

Chemical reaction prediction, involving forward synthesis and retrosynthesis prediction, is a fundamental problem in organic synthesis. A popular computational paradigm formulates synthesis prediction as a sequence-to-sequence translation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Zipeng Zhong , Jie Song , Zunlei Feng , Tiantao Liu , Lingxiang Jia , Shaolun Yao , Min Wu , Tingjun Hou , Mingli Song

Designing safe and sustainable chemicals is critical to combat chemical pollution in our environment. Machine learning (ML) methods have been developed to aid with de novo molecule design. However, data on the environmental impacts of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Coelina Robinson , Franziska Weissbach , Kjell Jorner , Mennatallah El-Assady , Christina Humer

Chemical space is routinely explored by machine learning methods to discover interesting molecules, before time-consuming experimental synthesizing is attempted. However, these methods often rely on a graph representation, ignoring 3D…

Traditional molecule generation methods often rely on sequence- or graph-based representations, which can limit their expressive power or require complex permutation-equivariant architectures. This paper introduces a novel paradigm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Van Khoa Nguyen , Maciej Falkiewicz , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Alexandros Kalousis

The goal of structure-based drug discovery is to find small molecules that bind to a given target protein. Deep learning has been used to generate drug-like molecules with certain cheminformatic properties, but has not yet been applied to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-27 Matthew Ragoza , Tomohide Masuda , David Ryan Koes

Latent space Energy-Based Models (EBMs), also known as energy-based priors, have drawn growing interests in generative modeling. Fueled by its flexibility in the formulation and strong modeling power of the latent space, recent works built…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Peiyu Yu , Sirui Xie , Xiaojian Ma , Baoxiong Jia , Bo Pang , Ruiqi Gao , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu