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Molecular optimization seeks to improve a molecule through small structural edits while preserving similarity to the starting compound. Recent language-model approaches typically treat this task as prompt-conditioned sequence generation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qingchuan Zhang , He Cao , Hao Li , Yanjun Shao , Zhiyuan Liu , Shihang Wang , Shufang Xie , Shenghua Gao , Xinwu Ye

Drug discovery can be viewed as a combinatorial search over an immense chemical space, motivating the development of deep generative models for de novo molecular design. Among these, GPT-based molecular language models (MLM) have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Qianwei Yang , Dong Xu , Zhangfan Yang , Sisi Yuan , Zexuan Zhu , Jianqiang Li , Junkai Ji

Goal-directed molecular generation requires satisfying heterogeneous constraints such as protein--ligand compatibility and multi-objective drug-like properties, yet existing methods often optimize these constraints in isolation, failing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yanting Li , Zhuoyang Jiang , Enyan Dai , Lei Wang , Wen-Cai Ye , Li Liu

Drug Discovery is a fundamental and ever-evolving field of research. The design of new candidate molecules requires large amounts of time and money, and computational methods are being increasingly employed to cut these costs. Machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-28 Pietro Bongini , Monica Bianchini , Franco Scarselli

Molecular conformation generation (MCG) is a fundamental and important problem in drug discovery. Many traditional methods have been developed to solve the MCG problem, such as systematic searching, model-building, random searching,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gengmo Zhou , Zhifeng Gao , Zhewei Wei , Hang Zheng , Guolin Ke

Generating molecular structures with desired properties is a critical task with broad applications in drug discovery and materials design. We propose 3M-Diffusion, a novel multi-modal molecular graph generation method, to generate diverse,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Huaisheng Zhu , Teng Xiao , Vasant G Honavar

Current genomic foundation models (GFMs) rely on extensive neural computation to implicitly approximate conserved biological motifs from single-nucleotide inputs. We propose Gengram, a conditional memory module that introduces an explicit…

Graph neural networks (GNNs), as topology/structure-aware models within deep learning, have emerged as powerful tools for AI-aided drug discovery (AIDD). By directly operating on molecular graphs, GNNs offer an intuitive and expressive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Odin Zhang , Haitao Lin , Xujun Zhang , Xiaorui Wang , Zhenxing Wu , Qing Ye , Weibo Zhao , Jike Wang , Kejun Ying , Yu Kang , Chang-yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou

The development of novel pharmaceuticals represents a significant challenge in modern science, with substantial costs and time investments. Deep generative models have emerged as promising tools for accelerating drug discovery by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Adarsh Singh

The ability to design molecules while preserving similarity to a target molecule and/or property is crucial for various applications in drug discovery, chemical design, and biology. We introduce in this paper an efficient training-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiri Navratil , Jarret Ross , Payel Das , Youssef Mroueh , Samuel C Hoffman , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Brian Belgodere

Discovering new materials better suited to specific purposes is an important issue in improving the quality of human life. Here, a neural network that creates molecules that meet some desired conditions based on a deep understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hyunseung Kim , Jonggeol Na , Won Bo Lee

Discovering functional crystalline materials entails navigating an immense combinatorial design space. While recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the sampling of chemically plausible compositions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hyunsoo Park , Aron Walsh

We present a modular framework powered by large language models (LLMs) that automates and streamlines key tasks across the early-stage computational drug discovery pipeline. By combining LLM reasoning with domain-specific tools, the…

Property prediction on molecular graphs is an important application of Graph Neural Networks. Recently, unlabeled molecular data has become abundant, which facilitates the rapid development of self-supervised learning for GNNs in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kha-Dinh Luong , Ambuj Singh

In recent years, AI models that mine intrinsic patterns from molecular structures and protein sequences have shown promise in accelerating drug discovery. However, these methods partly lag behind real-world pharmaceutical approaches of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yizhen Luo , Xing Yi Liu , Kai Yang , Kui Huang , Massimo Hong , Jiahuan Zhang , Yushuai Wu , Zaiqing Nie

While generative models have recently become ubiquitous in many scientific areas, less attention has been paid to their evaluation. For molecular generative models, the state-of-the-art examines their output in isolation or in relation to…

"How to evaluate the de novo designs proposed by a generative model?" Despite the transformative potential of generative deep learning in drug discovery, this seemingly simple question has no clear answer. The absence of standardized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-14 Rıza Özçelik , Francesca Grisoni

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained traction in Graph-based Machine Learning as a Service (GMLaaS) platforms, yet they remain vulnerable to graph-based model extraction attacks (MEAs), where adversaries reconstruct surrogate models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Zhan Cheng , Bolin Shen , Tianming Sha , Yuan Gao , Shibo Li , Yushun Dong

Designing molecular structures with desired chemical properties is an essential task in drug discovery and material design. However, finding molecules with the optimized desired properties is still a challenging task due to combinatorial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-02 Masatsugu Yamada , Mahito Sugiyama

The discovery of functional molecules is an expensive and time-consuming process, exemplified by the rising costs of small molecule therapeutic discovery. One class of techniques of growing interest for early-stage drug discovery is de novo…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley