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Deep generative models provide state-of-the-art performance across a wide array of applications, with recent studies showing increasing applicability for science and engineering. Despite a growing corpus of literature focused on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jacob K. Christopher , James E. Warner , Ferdinando Fioretto

Fast and accurate generation of molecular conformers is desired for downstream computational chemistry and drug discovery tasks. Currently, training and sampling state-of-the-art diffusion or flow-based models for conformer generation…

Generation of molecules with desired chemical and biological properties such as high drug-likeness, high binding affinity to target proteins, is critical for drug discovery. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic generative model to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-12 Deqian Kong , Bo Pang , Tian Han , Ying Nian Wu

De novo molecular generation is an essential task for science discovery. Recently, fragment-based deep generative models have attracted much research attention due to their flexibility in generating novel molecules based on existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Zijie Geng , Shufang Xie , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin , Jie Wang , Yongdong Zhang , Feng Wu , Tie-Yan Liu

Deep generative models provide a promising approach to de novo 3D peptide design. Most of them jointly model the distributions of peptide's position, orientation, and conformation, attempting to simultaneously converge to the target pocket.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Dengdeng Huang , Shikui Tu

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in structure-based drug design in recent years, especially for generating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein pocket. Notably, diffusion models have transformed ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Daiheng Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu

Molecular property regression struggles with cases in chemically relevant target ranges that are underrepresented in datasets. Standard average error minimization approaches underperform in these highly relevant cases, and oversampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Brenda Nogueira , Gisela A. Gonzalez-Montiel , Meng Jiang , Nitesh V. Chawla , Nuno Moniz

We propose a manifold matching approach to generative models which includes a distribution generator (or data generator) and a metric generator. In our framework, we view the real data set as some manifold embedded in a high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mengyu Dai , Haibin Hang

International initiatives such as METABRIC (Molecular Taxonomy of Breast Cancer International Consortium) have collected several multigenomic and clinical data sets to identify the undergoing molecular processes taking place throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Teodora Reu

The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

This paper is about the problem of learning a stochastic policy for generating an object (like a molecular graph) from a sequence of actions, such that the probability of generating an object is proportional to a given positive reward for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Emmanuel Bengio , Moksh Jain , Maksym Korablyov , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio

Therapeutic peptides show promise in targeting previously undruggable binding sites, with recent advancements in deep generative models enabling full-atom peptide co-design for specific protein receptors. However, the critical role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Fang Wu , Zhengyuan Zhou , Shuting Jin , Xiangxiang Zeng , Jure Leskovec , Jinbo Xu

Combination therapy has shown to improve therapeutic efficacy while reducing side effects. Importantly, it has become an indispensable strategy to overcome resistance in antibiotics, anti-microbials, and anti-cancer drugs. Facing enormous…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-24 Mostafa Karimi , Arman Hasanzadeh , Yang shen

The growing demand for molecules with tailored properties in fields such as drug discovery and chemical engineering has driven advancements in computational methods for molecular design. Machine learning-based approaches for de-novo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nandan Joshi , Erhan Guven

Protein sequence generation for engineering requires samples that are biophysically plausible and, when targeting a family/domain, remain recognizable members while exploring within-family diversity. Current discrete generative models…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Langzhang Liang , Ming Yang , Yi Feng , Junfan Li , Shirui Pan , Yinghui Xu , Tianlei Ying , Yizhen Zheng , Zenglin Xu

This paper presents a novel framework for aligning learnable latent spaces to arbitrary target distributions by leveraging flow-based generative models as priors. Our method first pretrains a flow model on the target features to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yizhuo Li , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ping Luo

Matching objectives underpin the success of modern generative models and rely on constructing conditional paths that transform a source distribution into a target distribution. Despite being a fundamental building block, conditional paths…

In many domains generating variable length sequences through insertions provides greater flexibility over autoregressive models. However, the action space of insertion models is much larger than that of autoregressive models (ARMs) making…

Deep generative models are attracting great attention for molecular design with desired properties. Most existing models generate molecules by sequentially adding atoms. This often renders generated molecules with less correlation with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Seonghwan Seo , Jaechang Lim , Woo Youn Kim

Structure-based drug design (SBDD), which aims to generate molecules that can bind tightly to the target protein, is an essential problem in drug discovery, and previous approaches have achieved initial success. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Xinze Li , Penglei Wang , Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Chengtao Li , Leilei Shi , Junhong Liu