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Breakthroughs in high-accuracy protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have established receptor-based molecule design as a critical driver for rapid early-phase drug discovery. However, most approaches still struggle to balance…

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State-of-the-art models for 3D molecular generation are based on significant inductive biases, SE(3), permutation equivariance to respect symmetry and graph message-passing networks to capture local chemistry, yet the generated molecules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Carlos Vonessen , Charles Harris , Miruna Cretu , Pietro Liò

Accurate drug target affinity prediction can improve drug candidate selection, accelerate the drug discovery process, and reduce drug production costs. Previous work focused on traditional fingerprints or used features extracted based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amritpal Singh

Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical development and experimental design. While deep learning methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaihui Cheng , Ce Liu , Qingkun Su , Jun Wang , Liwei Zhang , Yining Tang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

In recent years, 3D vision has become a crucial field within computer vision, powering a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, augmented reality, and medical imaging. This field relies on accurate perception,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhen Wang , Dongyuan Li , Yaozu Wu , Tianyu He , Jiang Bian , Renhe Jiang

The integration of deep learning, particularly AI-Generated Content, with high-quality data derived from ab initio calculations has emerged as a promising avenue for transforming the landscape of scientific research. However, the challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Kaiwei Zhang , Yange Lin , Guangcheng Wu , Yuxiang Ren , Xuecang Zhang , Bo wang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Weitao Du

Currently, the field of structure-based drug design is dominated by three main types of algorithms: search-based algorithms, deep generative models, and reinforcement learning. While existing works have typically focused on comparing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kangyu Zheng , Kai Zhang , Jiale Tan , Xuehan Chen , Yingzhou Lu , Zaixi Zhang , Lichao Sun , Marinka Zitnik , Tianfan Fu , Zhiding Liang

Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a novel Straight-Line Diffusion Model (SLDM) to tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuyan Ni , Shikun Feng , Haohan Chi , Bowen Zheng , Huan-ang Gao , Wei-Ying Ma , Zhi-Ming Ma , Yanyan Lan

We devise an approach for targeted molecular design, a problem of interest in computational drug discovery: given a target protein site, we wish to generate a chemical with both high binding affinity to the target and satisfactory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong

Recent advances in fast sampling methods for diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential to accelerate generation on image modalities. We apply these methods to 3-dimensional molecular conformations by building on the recently…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Romain Lacombe , Neal Vaidya

Despite recent advancement in 3D molecule conformation generation driven by diffusion models, its high computational cost in iterative diffusion/denoising process limits its application. In this paper, an equivariant consistency model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Zhiguang Fan , Yuedong Yang , Mingyuan Xu , Hongming Chen

The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…

Diffusion generative models have emerged as a powerful framework for addressing problems in structural biology and structure-based drug design. These models operate directly on 3D molecular structures. Due to the unfavorable scaling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-10 Ian Dunn , David Ryan Koes

Cryo-EM reconstruction algorithms seek to determine a molecule's 3D density map from a series of noisy, unlabeled 2D projection images captured with an electron microscope. Although reconstruction algorithms typically model the 3D volume as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-06 Ellen D. Zhong , Adam Lerer , Joseph H. Davis , Bonnie Berger

Understanding and representing the structure of 3D objects in an unsupervised manner remains a core challenge in computer vision and graphics. Most existing unsupervised keypoint methods are not designed for unconditional generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rhys Newbury , Juyan Zhang , Tin Tran , Hanna Kurniawati , Dana Kulić

The design of target-specific molecules such as small molecules, peptides, and antibodies is vital for biological research and drug discovery. Existing generative methods are restricted to single-domain molecules, failing to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiangzhe Kong , Zishen Zhang , Ziting Zhang , Rui Jiao , Jianzhu Ma , Wenbing Huang , Kai Liu , Yang Liu

Deep learning has achieved tremendous success in designing novel chemical compounds with desirable pharmaceutical properties. In this work, we focus on a new type of drug design problem -- generating a small "linker" to physically attach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yinan Huang , Xingang Peng , Jianzhu Ma , Muhan Zhang

Transition state (TS) search is key in chemistry for elucidating reaction mechanisms and exploring reaction networks. The search for accurate 3D TS structures, however, requires numerous computationally intensive quantum chemistry…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Chenru Duan , Yuanqi Du , Haojun Jia , Heather J. Kulik

Diffusion-based generative models in SE(3)-invariant space have demonstrated promising performance in molecular conformation generation, but typically require solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with thousands of update steps.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Tianshu Yu

De novo 3D molecule generation is a pivotal task in drug discovery. However, many recent geometric generative models struggle to produce high-quality 3D structures, even if they maintain 2D validity and topological stability. To tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Danny Reidenbach , Filipp Nikitin , Olexandr Isayev , Saee Paliwal