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Molecular optimization is a crucial aspect of drug discovery, aimed at refining molecular structures to enhance drug efficacy and minimize side effects, ultimately accelerating the overall drug development process. Many molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-15 Kun Li , Xiantao Cai , Jia Wu , Shirui Pan , Huiting Xu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

De novo molecule generation allows the search for more drug-like hits across a vast chemical space. However, lead optimization is still required, and the process of optimizing molecular structures faces the challenge of balancing structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiebin Fang , Churu Mao , Yuchen Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Zhongjun Ma

The idea of using deep-learning-based molecular generation to accelerate discovery of drug candidates has attracted extraordinary attention, and many deep generative models have been developed for automated drug design, termed molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-01 Odin Zhang , Haitao Lin , Hui Zhang , Huifeng Zhao , Yufei Huang , Yuansheng Huang , Dejun Jiang , Chang-yu Hsieh , Peichen Pan , Tingjun Hou

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

Molecule generation is a very important practical problem, with uses in drug discovery and material design, and AI methods promise to provide useful solutions. However, existing methods for molecule generation focus either on 2D graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Chenqing Hua , Sitao Luan , Minkai Xu , Rex Ying , Jie Fu , Stefano Ermon , Doina Precup

Molecular optimization in drug discovery aims to discover molecules with improved target properties, but practical lead optimization often requires more than high predicted scores. A useful candidate should also be actionable: it should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Qiao , Bo Pan , Hao-Wei Pang , Peter Zhiping Zhang , Liying Zhang , Liang Zhao

In the past decade, Artificial Intelligence driven drug design and discovery has been a hot research topic, where an important branch is molecule generation by generative models, from GAN-based models and VAE-based models to the latest…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-10 Siyuan Guo , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Motivation: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) has advanced with deep generative models, but bridging the gap between continuous atomic coordinates and discrete atom types remains a challenge. Current approaches, such as diffusion and flow…

The structural design of functional molecules, also called molecular optimization, is an essential chemical science and engineering task with important applications, such as drug discovery. Deep generative models and combinatorial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Cao Xiao , Jacob Yasonik , Connor W. Coley , Jimeng Sun

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Tianfan Fu , Cao Xiao , Jimeng Sun

Drug optimization has become increasingly crucial in light of fast-mutating virus strains and drug-resistant cancer cells. Nevertheless, it remains challenging as it necessitates retaining the beneficial properties of the original drug…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Liu , Songhao Jiang , Ian Foster , Jinbo Xu , Rick Stevens

Molecule generation is a challenging open problem in cheminformatics. Currently, deep generative approaches addressing the challenge belong to two broad categories, differing in how molecules are represented. One approach encodes molecular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-02 Marco Podda , Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-02 Masatsugu Yamada , Mahito Sugiyama

Topology Optimization seeks to find the best design that satisfies a set of constraints while maximizing system performance. Traditional iterative optimization methods like SIMP can be computationally expensive and get stuck in local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Giorgio Giannone , Faez Ahmed

A molecule's geometry, also known as conformation, is one of a molecule's most important properties, determining the reactions it participates in, the bonds it forms, and the interactions it has with other molecules. Conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Elman Mansimov , Omar Mahmood , Seokho Kang , Kyunghyun Cho

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

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has emerged as a significant global public health issue, with complex multifaceted conditions. Due to the lack of effective treatment options for various conditions, there is a pressing need for the discovery of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Hongsong Feng , Rui Wang , Chang-Guo Zhan , Guo-Wei Wei

Generating molecular graphs with desired chemical properties driven by deep graph generative models provides a very promising way to accelerate drug discovery process. Such graph generative models usually consist of two steps: learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-19 Chengxi Zang , Fei Wang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuanqi Du , Xiaojie Guo , Amarda Shehu , Liang Zhao

Molecular representation learning has shown great success in advancing AI-based drug discovery. The core of many recent works is based on the fact that the 3D geometric structure of molecules provides essential information about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiying Zhang , Zijing Liu , Yu Wang , Yu Li
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