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Learning, taking into account full distribution of the data, referred to as generative, is not feasible with deep neural networks (DNNs) because they model only the conditional distribution of the outputs given the inputs. Current solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Boris Flach , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Ondrej Fikar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) play a crucial role in various fields. However, most existing deep graph learning frameworks assume pre-stored static graphs and do not support training on graph streams. In contrast, many real-world graphs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yuchen Zhong , Guangming Sheng , Tianzuo Qin , Minjie Wang , Quan Gan , Chuan Wu

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

Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scenarios. The majority of existing research efforts primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yejing Wang , Shengyu Zhou , Jinyu Lu , Qidong Liu , Xinhang Li , Wenlin Zhang , Feng Li , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Generative flow networks utilize a flow-matching loss to learn a stochastic policy for generating objects from a sequence of actions, such that the probability of generating a pattern can be proportional to the corresponding given reward.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Leo Maxime Brunswic , Haozhi Wang , Shuang Luo , Jianye Hao , Amir Rasouli , Yinchuan Li

In this paper, we review recent developments and the role of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in computational drug discovery, including molecule generation, molecular property prediction, and drug-drug interaction prediction. By summarizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhengyu Fang , Xiaoge Zhang , Anyin Zhao , Xiao Li , Huiyuan Chen , Jing Li

Deep generative modeling has seen impressive advances in recent years, to the point where it is now commonplace to see simulated samples (e.g., images) that closely resemble real-world data. However, generation quality is generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Ming Liang Ang , Harold Soh

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) enable structured generation with inherent diversity, but existing sampling strategies often rely on weak guided exploration, slowing early discovery of high-reward candidates. In tasks such as molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rui Zhu , Yudong Zhang , Xuan Yu , Chen Zhang , Xu Wang , Yang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained traction in the complex domain of drug discovery because of their ability to process graph-structured data such as drug molecule models. This approach has resulted in a myriad of methods and models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Katherine Berry , Liang Cheng

We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent sampling-based approaches that leverage controlled stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Cheng-Hao Liu , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been shown effective to generate combinatorial objects with desired properties. We here propose a new GFlowNet training framework, with policy-dependent rewards, that bridges keeping flow balance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Puhua Niu , Shili Wu , Mingzhou Fan , Xiaoning Qian

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates with probabilities proportional to a given reward. However, GFlowNets can only be used with a predefined scalar reward, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yihang Chen , Lukas Mauch

New technology for energy storage is necessary for the large-scale adoption of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. The ability to discover suitable catalysts is crucial for making energy storage more cost-effective and scalable.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Patrick Geitner

The rise of cost involved with drug discovery and current speed of which they are discover, underscore the need for more efficient structure-based drug design (SBDD) methods. We employ Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Grayson Lee , Tony Shen , Martin Ester

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have demonstrated significant performance improvements for generating diverse discrete objects $x$ given a reward function $R(x)$, indicating the utility of the object and trained independently from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Chanakya Ekbote , Moksh Jain , Payel Das , Yoshua Bengio

Traditional drug discovery programs are being transformed by the advent of machine learning methods. Among these, Generative AI methods (GM) have gained attention due to their ability to design new molecules and enhance specific properties…

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) were developed to learn policies for efficiently sampling combinatorial candidates by interpreting their generative processes as trajectories in directed acyclic graphs. In the value-based training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Puhua Niu , Shili Wu , Xiaoning Qian

The task of deducing three-dimensional molecular configurations from their two-dimensional graph representations holds paramount importance in the fields of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical development. The rapid advancement of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Bobin Yang , Jie Deng , Zhenghan Chen , Ruoxue Wu

One of the grand challenges of cell biology is inferring the gene regulatory network (GRN) which describes interactions between genes and their products that control gene expression and cellular function. We can treat this as a causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lazar Atanackovic , Alexander Tong , Bo Wang , Leo J. Lee , Yoshua Bengio , Jason Hartford