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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is emerging as a promising approach to generate adaptive behaviors for robotic platforms. However, a major drawback of using DRL is the data-hungry training regime that requires millions of trial and error…

Conformation Generation is a fundamental problem in drug discovery and cheminformatics. And organic molecule conformation generation, particularly in vacuum and protein pocket environments, is most relevant to drug design. Recently, with…

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Column generation (CG) is one of the most successful approaches for solving large-scale linear programming (LP) problems. Given an LP with a prohibitively large number of variables (i.e., columns), the idea of CG is to explicitly consider…

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Although generative models hold promise for discovering molecules with optimized desired properties, they often fail to suggest synthesizable molecules that improve upon the known molecules seen in training. We find that a key limitation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Evan R. Antoniuk , Peggy Li , Nathan Keilbart , Stephen Weitzner , Bhavya Kailkhura , Anna M. Hiszpanski

With Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) being increasingly considered for the control of real-world systems, the lack of transparency of the neural network at the core of RL becomes a concern. Programmatic Reinforcement Learning (PRL) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Senne Deproost , Denis Steckelmacher , Ann Nowé

This study introduces the P5 model - a foundational method that utilizes reinforcement learning (RL) to augment control, effectiveness, and scalability in molecular dynamics simulations (MD). Our innovative strategy optimizes the sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas , Andrew Emmel , Luis Martinez , Neil Malur , Gregory Rutledge

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for 3D medical image generation, yet bridging the gap between standard training objectives and clinical relevance remains a challenge. This paper presents a method to enhance 3D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yueying Tian , Xudong Han , Meng Zhou , Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa , Rupert Young , Philip Birch

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely used in text generation to alleviate the exposure bias issue or to utilize non-parallel datasets. The reward function plays an important role in making RL training successful. However, previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yongchang Hao , Yuxin Liu , Lili Mou

Text generation is a crucial task in NLP. Recently, several adversarial generative models have been proposed to improve the exposure bias problem in text generation. Though these models gain great success, they still suffer from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Zhan Shi , Xinchi Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

The advent of large pre-trained language models in the domain of Code Synthesis has shown remarkable performance on various benchmarks, treating the problem of Code Generation in a fashion similar to Natural Language Generation, trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Philip John Gorinski , Matthieu Zimmer , Gerasimos Lampouras , Derrick Goh Xin Deik , Ignacio Iacobacci

Effective generation of molecular structures, or new chemical entities, that bind to target proteins is crucial for lead identification and optimization in drug discovery. Despite advancements in atom- and motif-wise deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Guanlue Li , Chenran Jiang , Ziqi Gao , Yu Liu , Chenyang Liu , Jiean Chen , Yong Huang , Jia Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning which is employed to solve various sequential decision making problems without proper supervision. Due to the recent advancement of deep learning, the newly proposed Deep-RL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Dhruv Ramani

A key barrier to using reinforcement learning (RL) in many real-world applications is the requirement of a large number of system interactions to learn a good control policy. Off-policy and Offline RL methods have been proposed to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Wenqi Cui , Linbin Huang , Weiwei Yang , Baosen Zhang

A major challenge in the pharmaceutical industry is to design novel molecules with specific desired properties, especially when the property evaluation is costly. Here, we propose MNCE-RL, a graph convolutional policy network for molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Chencheng Xu , Qiao Liu , Minlie Huang , Tao Jiang

Context: Machine learning (ML) may enable effective automated test generation. Objective: We characterize emerging research, examining testing practices, researcher goals, ML techniques applied, evaluation, and challenges. Methods: We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Afonso Fontes , Gregory Gay

Drug discovery using deep learning has attracted a lot of attention of late as it has obvious advantages like higher efficiency, less manual guessing and faster process time. In this paper, we present a novel neural network for generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-08 Abhinav Sagar

Model-free reinforcement learning methods lack an inherent mechanism to impose behavioural constraints on the trained policies. Although certain extensions exist, they remain limited to specific types of constraints, such as value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Bram De Cooman , Johan Suykens

Automated game design (AGD), the study of automatically generating game rules, has a long history in technical games research. AGD approaches generally rely on approximations of human play, either objective functions or AI agents. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Johor Jara Gonzalez , Seth Cooper , Matthew Guzdial

Proteins in complex with small molecule ligands represent the core of structure-based drug discovery. However, three-dimensional representations are absent from most deep-learning-based generative models. We here present a graph-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-07 Seung-gu Kang , Jeffrey K. Weber , Joseph A. Morrone , Leili Zhang , Tien Huynh , Wendy D. Cornell

In drug discovery, molecular optimization aims to iteratively refine a lead compound to improve molecular properties while preserving structural similarity to the original molecule. However, each oracle evaluation is expensive, making…

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