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Designing molecular structures with desired chemical properties is an essential task in drug discovery and material design. However, finding molecules with the optimized desired properties is still a challenging task due to combinatorial…

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Molecular Machine Learning (ML) bears promise for efficient molecule property prediction and drug discovery. However, labeled molecule data can be expensive and time-consuming to acquire. Due to the limited labeled data, it is a great…

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Molecule optimization is about generating molecule $Y$ with more desirable properties based on an input molecule $X$. The state-of-the-art approaches partition the molecules into a large set of substructures $S$ and grow the new molecule…

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We propose a neural encoder-decoder model with reinforcement learning (NRL) for grammatical error correction (GEC). Unlike conventional maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), the model directly optimizes towards an objective that considers a…

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Designing molecules with specific properties is a long-lasting research problem and is central to advancing crucial domains such as drug discovery and material science. Recent advances in deep graph generative models treat molecule design…

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Molecular editing aims to modify a given molecule to optimize desired chemical properties while preserving structural similarity. However, current approaches typically rely on string-based or continuous representations, which fail to…

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The fundamental goal of generative drug design is to propose optimized molecules that meet predefined activity, selectivity, and pharmacokinetic criteria. Despite recent progress, we argue that existing generative methods are limited in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Julien Horwood , Emmanuel Noutahi

The problem of accelerating drug discovery relies heavily on automatic tools to optimize precursor molecules to afford them with better biochemical properties. Our work in this paper substantially extends prior state-of-the-art on…

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Molecular optimization, which transforms a given input molecule X into another Y with desirable properties, is essential in molecular drug discovery. The traditional translating approaches, generating the molecular graphs from scratch by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Chaojie Ji , Yijia Zheng , Ruxin Wang , Yunpeng Cai , Hongyan Wu

Computer-aided molecular design (CAMD) studies quantitative structure-property relationships and discovers desired molecules using optimization algorithms. With the emergence of machine learning models, CAMD score functions may be replaced…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shiqiang Zhang , Juan S. Campos , Christian Feldmann , Frederik Sandfort , Miriam Mathea , Ruth Misener

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are a type of cellulose with excellent mechanical performance and other merit attributes. According to previous reports, hydrogen bonds play a pivotal role in the anisotropic structure of the CNC. Understanding…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Xu Dong

This work considers the task of representation learning on the attributed relational graph (ARG). Both the nodes and edges in an ARG are associated with attributes/features allowing ARGs to encode rich structural information widely observed…

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The prediction of physicochemical properties from molecular structures is a crucial task for artificial intelligence aided molecular design. A growing number of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been proposed to address this challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shuo Zhang , Yang Liu , Lei Xie

Molecular Representation Learning is essential to solving many drug discovery and computational chemistry problems. It is a challenging problem due to the complex structure of molecules and the vast chemical space. Graph representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Atia Hamidizadeh , Tony Shen , Martin Ester

Coarse-grained (CG) modeling simplifies molecular systems by mapping groups of atoms into representative units. However, traditional CG approaches rely on fixed mapping rules, which limit their ability to handle diverse chemical systems and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhixuan Zhong , Linbo Ma , Jian Jiang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools to accurately predict materials and molecular properties in computational discovery pipelines. In this article, we exploit the invertible nature of these neural networks to…

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Model predictive control (MPC) is increasingly being considered for control of fast systems and embedded applications. However, the MPC has some significant challenges for such systems. Its high computational complexity results in high…

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Optimizing chemical molecules for desired properties lies at the core of drug development. Despite initial successes made by deep generative models and reinforcement learning methods, these methods were mostly limited by the requirement of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shuangjia Zheng , Ying Song , Zhang Pan , Chengtao Li , Le Song , Yuedong Yang

Logic optimization is an NP-hard problem commonly approached through hand-engineered heuristics. We propose to combine graph convolutional networks with reinforcement learning and a novel, scalable node embedding method to learn which local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Xavier Timoneda , Lukas Cavigelli

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate great performance in compound property and activity prediction due to their capability to efficiently learn complex molecular graph structures. However, two main limitations persist including…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-10 Apakorn Kengkanna , Masahito Ohue