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Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have recently emerged as a suitable framework for generating diverse and high-quality molecular structures by learning from rewards treated as unnormalized distributions. Previous works in this framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohit Pandey , Gopeshh Subbaraj , Artem Cherkasov , Martin Ester , Emmanuel Bengio

Drug discovery is a complex process that involves multiple stages and tasks. However, existing molecular generative models can only tackle some of these tasks. We present Generalist Molecular generative model (GenMol), a versatile framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Seul Lee , Karsten Kreis , Srimukh Prasad Veccham , Meng Liu , Danny Reidenbach , Yuxing Peng , Saee Paliwal , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat

In recent years, deep learning based generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Diffusion Models (DMs), have been instrumental in in generating diverse, high-quality content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shamim Yazdani , Akansha Singh , Nripsuta Saxena , Zichong Wang , Avash Palikhe , Deng Pan , Umapada Pal , Jie Yang , Wenbin Zhang

Computing atomic-scale properties of chemically disordered materials requires an efficient exploration of their vast configuration space. Traditional approaches such as Monte Carlo or Special Quasirandom Structures either entail sampling an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Maciej J. Karcz , Luca Messina , Eiji Kawasaki , Emeric Bourasseau

Large Language Models (LLMs) employ three popular training approaches: Masked Language Models (MLM), Causal Language Models (CLM), and Sequence-to-Sequence Models (seq2seq). However, each approach has its strengths and limitations, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xuefeng Liu , Songhao Jiang , Bo Li , Rick Stevens

Synthesizable molecular design (also known as synthesizable molecular optimization) is a fundamental problem in drug discovery, and involves designing novel molecular structures to improve their properties according to drug-relevant oracle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Dannong Wang , Jintai Chen , Yingzhou Lu , Minjie Shen , Lulu Chen , Zhiding Liang , Tianfan Fu , Xiao-Yang Liu

Significant interests have recently risen in leveraging sequence-based large language models (LLMs) for drug design. However, most current applications of LLMs in drug discovery lack the ability to comprehend three-dimensional (3D)…

Advances in machine learning have led to graph neural network-based methods for drug discovery, yielding promising results in molecular design, chemical synthesis planning, and molecular property prediction. However, current graph neural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-13 Jiahua Rao , Shuangjia Zheng , Yuedong Yang

Chemical space exploration underlies drug discovery, yet most generative models treat chemical space as a fixed, implicitly learned distribution, focusing on sampling molecules rather than deliberately designing the space itself. We…

Deep generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Diffusion Models, and Transformers, have shown great promise in a variety of applications, including image and speech synthesis, natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lyle Regenwetter , Akash Srivastava , Dan Gutfreund , Faez Ahmed

It remains a challenging task to generate a vast variety of novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties. In this work, a generative network complex (GNC) is proposed as a new platform for designing novel compounds, predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-01 Christopher Grow , Kaifu Gao , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Auto-encoding generative adversarial networks (GANs) combine the standard GAN algorithm, which discriminates between real and model-generated data, with a reconstruction loss given by an auto-encoder. Such models aim to prevent mode…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , David Warde-Farley , Shakir Mohamed

In the scope of drug discovery, the molecular design aims to identify novel compounds from the chemical space where the potential drug-like molecules are estimated to be in the order of 10^60 - 10^100. Since this search task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Wenlu Wang , Ye Wang , Honggang Zhao , Simone Sciabola

Knowledge Graphs (KG) and associated Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) models have recently begun to be explored in the context of drug discovery and have the potential to assist in key challenges such as target identification. In the drug…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-01 Stephen Bonner , Ian P Barrett , Cheng Ye , Rowan Swiers , Ola Engkvist , Charles Tapley Hoyt , William L Hamilton

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

The adoption of machine learning (ML) and deep learning methods has revolutionized molecular medicine by driving breakthroughs in genomics, transcriptomics, drug discovery, and biological systems modeling. The increasing quantity,…

In the pursuit of novel catalyst development to address pressing environmental concerns and energy demand, conventional design and optimization methods often fall short due to the complexity and vastness of the catalyst parameter space. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Nung Siong Lai , Yi Shen Tew , Xialin Zhong , Jun Yin , Jiali Li , Binhang Yan , Xiaonan Wang

The discovery of inorganic crystal structures with targeted properties is a significant challenge in materials science. Generative models, especially state-of-the-art diffusion models, offer the promise of modeling complex data…

Generative models are a class of AI models capable of creating new instances of data by learning and sampling from their statistical distributions. In recent years, these models have gained prominence in machine learning due to the…

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