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We study a fundamental problem in computational chemistry known as molecular conformation generation, trying to predict stable 3D structures from 2D molecular graphs. Existing machine learning approaches usually first predict distances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Chence Shi , Shitong Luo , Minkai Xu , Jian Tang

Molecular conformation generation, a critical aspect of computational chemistry, involves producing the three-dimensional conformer geometry for a given molecule. Generating molecular conformation via diffusion requires learning to reverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Chaolong Ying , Ruimao Zhang , Tianshu Yu

We introduce HyperDiffusionFields (HyDiF), a framework that models 3D molecular conformers as continuous fields rather than discrete atomic coordinates or graphs. At the core of our approach is the Molecular Directional Field (MDF), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sudarshan Babu , Phillip Lo , Xiao Zhang , Aadi Srivastava , Ali Davariashtiyani , Jason Perera , Michael Maire , Aly A. Khan

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

Structure-based molecular ML (SBML) models can be highly sensitive to input geometries and give predictions with large variance. We present an approach to mitigate the challenge of selecting conformations for such models by generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Michael Maser , Natasa Tagasovska , Jae Hyeon Lee , Andrew Watkins

Since its foundations, more than one hundred years ago, the field of structural biology has strived to understand and analyze the properties of molecules and their interactions by studying the structure that they take in 3D space. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Gabriele Corso

We present a diffusion-based, generative model for conformer generation. Our model is focused on the reproduction of bonded structure and is constructed from the associated terms traditionally found in classical force fields to ensure a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-18 David C. Williams , Neil Inala

Molecular conformer generation is a fundamental task in computational chemistry. Several machine learning approaches have been developed, but none have outperformed state-of-the-art cheminformatics methods. We propose torsional diffusion, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Bowen Jing , Gabriele Corso , Jeffrey Chang , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Molecular conformer generation (MCG) is an important task in cheminformatics and drug discovery. The ability to efficiently generate low-energy 3D structures can avoid expensive quantum mechanical simulations, leading to accelerated virtual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Danny Reidenbach , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan

Estimating three-dimensional conformations of a molecular graph allows insight into the molecule's biological and chemical functions. Fast generation of valid conformations is thus central to molecular modeling. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sohil Atul Shah , Vladlen Koltun

Obtaining 3D conformations of realistic polyatomic molecules at the quantum chemistry level remains challenging, and although recent machine learning advances offer promise, predicting large-molecule structures still requires substantial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yifei Zhu , Jiahui Zhang , Jiawei Peng , Mengge Li , Chao Xu , Zhenggang Lan

We study how to generate molecule conformations (i.e., 3D structures) from a molecular graph. Traditional methods, such as molecular dynamics, sample conformations via computationally expensive simulations. Recently, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Minkai Xu , Shitong Luo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Peng , Jian Tang

Highly accurate biomolecular structure prediction is a key component of developing biomolecular foundation models, and one of the most critical aspects of building foundation models is identifying the recipes for scaling the model. In this…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-02 Yi Zhou , Chan Lu , Yiming Ma , Wei Qu , Fei Ye , Kexin Zhang , Lan Wang , Minrui Gui , Quanquan Gu

Molecule generation is a very important practical problem, with uses in drug discovery and material design, and AI methods promise to provide useful solutions. However, existing methods for molecule generation focus either on 2D graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Chenqing Hua , Sitao Luan , Minkai Xu , Rex Ying , Jie Fu , Stefano Ermon , Doina Precup

Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable promise for solving the trajectory generation problem and in paving the way for online use of trajectory optimization for resource-constrained spacecraft. However, a key shortcoming in current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Julia Briden , Breanna Johnson , Richard Linares , Abhishek Cauligi

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated strong performance in generative modeling, particularly in image synthesis, making them a compelling choice for molecular conformer generation. However, applying DiTs to molecules introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 J. Thorben Frank , Winfried Ripken , Gregor Lied , Klaus-Robert Müller , Oliver T. Unke , Stefan Chmiela

Fast and accurate generation of molecular conformers is desired for downstream computational chemistry and drug discovery tasks. Currently, training and sampling state-of-the-art diffusion or flow-based models for conformer generation…

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 physically realistic 3D molecular structures remains a core challenge in molecular generative modeling. While diffusion models equipped with equivariant neural networks have made progress in capturing molecular geometries, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zhijian Zhou , Junyi An , Zongkai Liu , Yunfei Shi , Xuan Zhang , Fenglei Cao , Chao Qu , Yuan Qi

Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

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