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We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. Our primary contributions are a simpler method for generating SMILES strings guaranteed to be chemically valid, using a combination of a new context-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Egor Kraev

We present an approach to make molecular optimization more efficient. We infer a hypergraph replacement grammar from the ChEMBL database, count the frequencies of particular rules being used to expand particular nonterminals in other rules,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Egor Kraev , Mark Harley

Reinforcement learning (RL) over text representations can be effective for finding high-value policies that can search over graphs. However, RL requires careful structuring of the search space and algorithm design to be effective in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Raj Ghugare , Santiago Miret , Adriana Hugessen , Mariano Phielipp , Glen Berseth

Deep learning based molecular graph generation and optimization has recently been attracting attention due to its great potential for de novo drug design. On the one hand, recent models are able to efficiently learn a given graph…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Rémy Brossard , Oriel Frigo , David Dehaene

Despite the success of foundation models in language and vision, molecular graph generation still lacks a unified framework for heterogeneous design tasks with reliable controllability. While reinforcement learning (RL) offers a natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yihan Zhu , Yuhan Liu , Weijiang Li , Tengfei Luo , Meng Jiang

Recent advances in language models have enabled framing molecule generation as sequence modeling. However, existing approaches often rely on single-objective reinforcement learning, limiting their applicability to real-world drug design,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Diego Calanzone , Pierluca D'Oro , Pierre-Luc Bacon

We view molecular optimization as a graph-to-graph translation problem. The goal is to learn to map from one molecular graph to another with better properties based on an available corpus of paired molecules. Since molecules can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Wengong Jin , Kevin Yang , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Molecular machine learning has gained popularity with the advancements of geometric deep learning. In parallel, retrieval-augmented generation has become a principled approach commonly used with language models. However, the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Runzhong Wang , Rui-Xi Wang , Mrunali Manjrekar , Connor W. Coley

Developing new drugs is laborious and costly, demanding extensive time investment. In this paper, we introduce a de-novo drug design strategy, which harnesses the capabilities of language models to devise targeted drugs for specific…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-20 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed

The generation of drug-like molecules is crucial for drug design. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods often overlook structural information. However, feature engineering-based methods usually merely focus on binding affinity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Xiangyu Zhang

Machine learning has the potential to automate molecular design and drastically accelerate the discovery of new functional compounds. Towards this goal, generative models and reinforcement learning (RL) using string and graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Alexander Zhigalin , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Molecular representation learning (MRL) is a key step to build the connection between machine learning and chemical science. In particular, it encodes molecules as numerical vectors preserving the molecular structures and features, on top…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-30 Zhichun Guo , Kehan Guo , Bozhao Nan , Yijun Tian , Roshni G. Iyer , Yihong Ma , Olaf Wiest , Xiangliang Zhang , Wei Wang , Chuxu Zhang , Nitesh V. Chawla

The aim of the inverse chemical design is to develop new molecules with given optimized molecular properties or objectives. Recently, generative deep learning (DL) networks are considered as the state-of-the-art in inverse chemical design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haoran Wei , Mariefel Olarte , Garrett B. Goh

Generating novel graph structures that optimize given objectives while obeying some given underlying rules is fundamental for chemistry, biology and social science research. This is especially important in the task of molecular graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jiaxuan You , Bowen Liu , Rex Ying , Vijay Pande , Jure Leskovec

Designing new molecules with a set of predefined properties is a core problem in modern drug discovery and development. There is a growing need for de-novo design methods that would address this problem. We present MolecularRNN, the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Mariya Popova , Mykhailo Shvets , Junier Oliva , Olexandr Isayev

Molecule representation learning (MRL) methods aim to embed molecules into a real vector space. However, existing SMILES-based (Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System) or GNN-based (Graph Neural Networks) MRL methods either take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Hongwei Wang , Weijiang Li , Xiaomeng Jin , Kyunghyun Cho , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han , Martin D. Burke

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can simulate large molecular complexes over extended timescales by reducing degrees of freedom. A critical step in CG modeling is the selection of the CG mapping algorithm, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-23 Soumya Mondal , Subhanu Halder , Debarchan Basu , Sandeep Kumar , Tarak Karmakar

Automating molecular design using deep reinforcement learning (RL) holds the promise of accelerating the discovery of new chemical compounds. Existing approaches work with molecular graphs and thus ignore the location of atoms in space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-02 Gregor N. C. Simm , Robert Pinsler , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Tackling molecular optimization problems using conventional computational methods is challenging, because the determination of the optimized configuration is known to be an NP-hard problem. Recently, there has been increasing interest in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Eshan Joshi , Samuel Somuyiwa , Hossein Z. Jooya

Generating a novel and optimized molecule with desired chemical properties is an essential part of the drug discovery process. Failure to meet one of the required properties can frequently lead to failure in a clinical test which is costly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Bonggun Shin , Sungsoo Park , JinYeong Bak , Joyce C. Ho
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