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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…

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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…

The Straight-Through Estimator (STE) is the dominant method for training neural networks with discrete variables, enabling gradient-based optimisation by routing gradients through a differentiable surrogate. However, existing STE variants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rushi Shah , Mingyuan Yan , Michael Curtis Mozer , Dianbo Liu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Félix Therrien , Edward H. Sargent , Oleksandr Voznyy

Deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) shows great promise to significantly accelerate material discovery and potentially revolutionize materials research. However, current research in this field primarily relies on data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Yang Li , Zechen Tang , Zezhou Chen , Minghui Sun , Boheng Zhao , He Li , Honggeng Tao , Zilong Yuan , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has proven to be remarkably effective in optimizing deep neural networks that employ ever-larger numbers of parameters. Yet, improving the efficiency of large-scale optimization remains a vital and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Frithjof Gressmann , Zach Eaton-Rosen , Carlo Luschi

In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have gained traction in home energy management systems. However, their adoption by energy management companies remains limited due to the black-box nature of DRL, which fails to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Toon Van Puyvelde , Mehran Zareh , Chris Develder

Molecular-level understanding of the interactions between the constituents of an atomic structure is essential for designing novel materials in various applications. This need goes beyond the basic knowledge of the number and types of…

Designing a network to learn a molecule structure given its physical/chemical properties is a hard problem, but is useful for drug discovery tasks. In this paper, we incorporate higher-order relational learning of Factor Graphs with strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hieu Le Trung , Yiqing Xu , Wee Sun Lee

The prediction of molecular properties is a crucial task in the field of material and drug discovery. The potential benefits of using deep learning techniques are reflected in the wealth of recent literature. Still, these techniques are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Minghao Guo , Veronika Thost , Samuel W Song , Adithya Balachandran , Payel Das , Jie Chen , Wojciech Matusik

Due to their excellent drug-like and pharmacokinetic properties, small molecule drugs are widely used to treat various diseases, making them a critical component of drug discovery. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Kun Li , Yida Xiong , Hongzhi Zhang , Xiantao Cai , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Molecular structure elucidation from spectra is a fundamental challenge in molecular science. Conventional approaches rely heavily on expert interpretation and lack scalability, while retrieval-based machine learning approaches remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Liang Wang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Zhenyi Zhong , Zhiyuan Liu , Pengju Wang , Deli Zhao , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Yang Zhang

This paper deals with differentiable dynamical models congruent with neural process theories that cast brain function as the hierarchical refinement of an internal generative model explaining observations. Our work extends existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 André Ofner , Sebastian Stober

Decision tree (DT) attracts persistent research attention due to its impressive empirical performance and interpretability in numerous applications. However, the growth of traditional yet widely-used univariate decision trees (UDTs) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Dan Li , Songcan Chen

Deep neural networks have been proven powerful at processing perceptual data, such as images and audio. However for tabular data, tree-based models are more popular. A nice property of tree-based models is their natural interpretability. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Yongxin Yang , Irene Garcia Morillo , Timothy M. Hospedales

Exponential growth in Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) has resulted in new opportunities and urgent needs for discovery of meaningful data-driven representations and patterns of diseases in Computational Phenotyping research. Deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-14 Zhengping Che , Sanjay Purushotham , Robinder Khemani , Yan Liu

The Gillespie algorithm is commonly used to simulate and analyze complex chemical reaction networks. Here, we leverage recent breakthroughs in deep learning to develop a fully differentiable variant of the Gillespie algorithm. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Krishna Rijal , Pankaj Mehta

Learning discriminative global features plays a vital role in semantic segmentation. And most of the existing methods adopt stacks of local convolutions or non-local blocks to capture long-range context. However, due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Lin Song , Yanwei Li , Zeming Li , Gang Yu , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

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

This paper introduces a differentiable representation for the optimization of boustrophedon path plans in convex polygons, explores an additional parameter of these path plans that can be optimized, discusses the properties of this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Thomas Manzini , Robin Murphy