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Graph generation is a critical yet challenging task, as empirical analyses require a deep understanding of complex, non-Euclidean structures. Diffusion models have recently made significant advances in graph generation, but these models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yiming Huang , Tolga Birdal

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved significant success in generative tasks. However, their training and sampling processes suffer from the issue of distribution mismatch. During the denoising process, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zekun Wang , Mingyang Yi , Shuchen Xue , Zhenguo Li , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , Zhi-Ming Ma

Virtual screening plays a pivotal role in early drug discovery, traditionally dominated by physics-based methods. While these approaches offer detailed insights, they are often hindered by high computational costs, limited sampling, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-20 Temitope Sobodu , Adeshina Yusuf , Dan Kiel , Dong Kong

Despite many advances in computational modeling of protein structures, these methods have not been widely utilized by experimental structural biologists. Two major obstacles are preventing the transition from a purely-experimental to a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-04 Rishi Mukhopadhyay , Paul Shealy , Homayoun Valafar

Predicting a ligand's bound pose to a target protein is a key component of early-stage computational drug discovery. Recent developments in machine learning methods have focused on improving pose quality at the cost of model runtime. For…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-23 Wojtek Treyde , Seohyun Chris Kim , Nazim Bouatta , Mohammed AlQuraishi

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently attracted significant attention in the community of computer vision due to their outstanding performance. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has focused on generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yingling Lu , Yijun Yang , Zhaohu Xing , Qiong Wang , Lei Zhu

In the course of various biological processes, specific DNA-binding proteins must find a particular target sequence/protein or a damaged site on the DNA efficiently. DNA-binding proteins perform this task based on diffusion. Yet,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Seongyu Park , O-chul Lee , Xavier Durang , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Protein inverse folding aims to design an amino acid sequence that will fold into a given backbone structure, serving as a central task in protein design. Two main paradigms have been widely explored. Template-based methods exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiran Zhu , Changxi Chi , Hongxin Xiang , Wenjie Du , Xiaoqi Wang , Jun Xia

Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are small molecules that trigger the breakdown of traditionally ``undruggable'' proteins by binding simultaneously to their targets and degradation-associated proteins. A key challenge in their…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-14 Bo Qiang , Wenxian Shi , Yuxuan Song , Menghua Wu

Composed of amino acid chains that influence how they fold and thus dictating their function and features, proteins are a class of macromolecules that play a central role in major biological processes and are required for the structure,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-15 Aaron Wang

Diffusion models (DMs) have been adopted across diverse fields with its remarkable abilities in capturing intricate data distributions. In this paper, we propose a Fast Diffusion Model (FDM) to significantly speed up DMs from a stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zike Wu , Pan Zhou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hanwang Zhang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Unraveling the dynamical motions of biomolecules is essential for bridging their structure and function, yet it remains a major computational challenge. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a detailed depiction of biomolecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Allan dos Santos Costa , Manvitha Ponnapati , Dana Rubin , Tess Smidt , Joseph Jacobson

Generative diffusion models, famous for their performance in image generation, are popular in various cross-domain applications. However, their use in the communication community has been mostly limited to auxiliary tasks like data modeling…

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Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) perform essential roles in biological functions. Although some experimental techniques have been developed to detect PPIs, they suffer from high false positive and high false negative rates. Consequently,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Samaneh Aghajanbaglo , Sobhan Moosavi , Maseud Rahgozar , Amir Rahimi

Proteins adopt multiple structural conformations to perform their diverse biological functions, and understanding these conformations is crucial for advancing drug discovery. Traditional physics-based simulation methods often struggle with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Jiarui Lu , Xiaoyin Chen , Stephen Zhewen Lu , Chence Shi , Hongyu Guo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Tang

Accurate protein structures are essential for understanding biological function, yet incorporating experimental data into protein generative models remains a major challenge. Most predictors of experimental observables are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Nadav Bojan Sellam , Meital Bojan , Paul Schanda , Alex Bronstein

A central problem in computational biophysics is protein structure prediction, i.e., finding the optimal folding of a given amino acid sequence. This problem has been studied in a classical abstract model, the HP model, where the protein is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Kaiyuan Yang , Houjing Huang , Olafs Vandans , Adithya Murali , Fujia Tian , Roland H. C. Yap , Liang Dai

Most widely used ligand docking methods assume a rigid protein structure. This leads to problems when the structure of the target protein deforms upon ligand binding. In particular, the ligand's true binding pose is often scored very…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-22 Patricia Suriana , Joseph M. Paggi , Ron O. Dror

Advances in deep generative models shed light on de novo molecule generation with desired properties. However, molecule generation targeted for dual protein targets still faces formidable challenges including protein 3D structure data…