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This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) method to predict stable molecular geometries from their chemical composition. The method is useful for generating molecular conformations which may serve as initial geometries for saving time…

Quantum-inspired optimization (QIO) algorithms are computational techniques that emulate certain quantum mechanical effects on a classical hardware to tackle a class of optimization tasks. QIO methods have so far been employed to solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Rathi Munukur , Bhaskar Roy Bardhan , Devesh Upadhyay , Joydip Ghosh

Lead optimization in drug discovery requires efficiently navigating vast chemical space through iterative cycles to enhance molecular properties while preserving structural similarity to the original lead compound. Despite recent advances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ziqing Wang , Yibo Wen , William Pattie , Xiao Luo , Weimin Wu , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Abhishek Pandey , Han Liu , Kaize Ding

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) offers tremendous potential but is currently limited by the availability of qubits. We introduce an innovative approach that utilizes pre-trained neural networks to enhance Variational Quantum Circuits (VQC).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jun Qi , Chao-Han Yang , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Hector Zenil , Jesper Tegner

One of the main challenges in drug discovery is to find molecules that bind specifically and strongly to their target protein while having minimal binding to other proteins. By predicting binding affinity, it is possible to identify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 L. Domingo , M. Djukic , C. Johnson , F. Borondo

Query Optimization (QO) has become essential for enhancing Large Language Model (LLM) effectiveness, particularly in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems where query quality directly determines retrieval and response performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mingyang Song , Mao Zheng

Recent developments in deep learning have made remarkable progress in speeding up the prediction of quantum chemical (QC) properties by removing the need for expensive electronic structure calculations like density functional theory.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Shuqi Lu , Zhifeng Gao , Di He , Linfeng Zhang , Guolin Ke

Despite recent advancements, most computational methods for molecule optimization are constrained to single- or double-property optimization tasks and suffer from poor scalability and generalizability to novel optimization tasks. Meanwhile,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Vishal Dey , Xiao Hu , Xia Ning

Recent advancements in large language models have opened new possibilities for generative molecular drug design. We present Chemlactica and Chemma, two language models fine-tuned on a novel corpus of 110M molecules with computed properties,…

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) models of molecular HOMO-LUMO-gaps often struggle to achieve satisfying data-efficiency as measured by decreasing prediction errors for increasing training set sizes. Partitioning training sets of organic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Bernard Mazouin , Alexandre Alain Schöpfer , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

The fundamental problem faced in quantum chemistry is the calculation of molecular properties, which are of practical importance in fields ranging from materials science to biochemistry. Within chemical precision, the total energy of a…

Quantum machine learning (QML) is rapidly transitioning from theoretical promise to practical relevance across data-intensive scientific domains. In this Review, we provide a structured overview of recent advances that bridge foundational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Vinit Singh , Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Mandeep Kaur Saggi , Manas Sajjan , Sabre Kais

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a principled approach to molecular design tasks. In this paper we explain three pitfalls of BO which can cause poor empirical performance: an incorrect prior width, over-smoothing, and inadequate acquisition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Austin Tripp , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Geometry optimization is an important task in quantum chemical calculations to analyze the characteristics of molecules. A top concern on it is a long execution time because time-consuming energy and gradient calculations are repeated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Satoshi Imamura , Akihiko Kasagi , Eiji Yoshida

We review recent studies dealing with the generation of machine learning models of molecular and solid properties. The models are trained and validated using standard quantum chemistry results obtained for organic molecules and materials…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Raghunathan Ramakrishnan , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

The answers to many unsolved problems lie in the intractable chemical space of molecules and materials. Machine learning techniques are rapidly growing in popularity as a way to compress and explore chemical space efficiently. One of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 John E. Herr , Kevin Koh , Kun Yao , John Parkhill

We establish an isomorphism between quantum circuits and a subspace of polyatomic molecules, which suggests that molecules can be used as descriptors of quantum circuits for quantum machine learning. Our numerical results show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Elham Torabian , Roman V. Krems

Molecular optimization is a central task in drug discovery that requires precise structural reasoning and domain knowledge. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating high-level editing intentions in natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Wenyu Zhu , Chengzhu Li , Xiaohe Tian , Yifan Wang , Yinjun Jia , Jianhui Wang , Bowen Gao , Ya-Qin Zhang , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Accurate and efficient prediction of electronic wavefunctions is central to ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and electronic structure theory. However, conventional ab initio methods require self-consistent optimization of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Yanxian Tao , Lingyun Wan , Xiongzhi Zeng , Yingdi Jin , Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Combinatorial optimization problems are pivotal across many fields. Among these, Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, central to fields like portfolio optimization, network design, and computational biology, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Yuhan Huang , Siyuan Jin , Yichi Zhang , Ling Pan , Qiming Shao