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Predictive models can be particularly helpful for robots to effectively manipulate terrains in construction sites and extraterrestrial surfaces. However, terrain state representations become extremely high-dimensional especially to capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chaoqi Liu , Yunzhu Li , Kris Hauser

Document binarization is a key pre-processing step for many document analysis tasks. However, existing methods can not extract stroke edges finely, mainly due to the fair-treatment nature of vanilla convolutions and the extraction of stroke…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zongyuan Yang , Yongping Xiong , Guibin Wu

Automated grading of diabetic retinopathy (DR) faces several critical challenges: subtle inter-grade visual distinctions in fine-grained lesion patterns, distributional discrepancies induced by heterogeneous imaging devices and acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yiqun Wang

Prediction of a molecule's 3D conformer ensemble from the molecular graph holds a key role in areas of cheminformatics and drug discovery. Existing generative models have several drawbacks including lack of modeling important molecular…

Understanding the structure of the protein-ligand complex is crucial to drug development. Existing virtual structure measurement and screening methods are dominated by docking and its derived methods combined with deep learning. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Kelei He , Tiejun Dong , Jinhui Wu , Junfeng Zhang

Recent works have shown the promise of inference-time search over action samples for improving generative robot policies. In particular, optimizing cross-chunk coherence via bidirectional decoding has proven effective in boosting the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rhea Malhotra , Yuejiang Liu , Chelsea Finn

In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have emerged as promising alternatives for molecular docking, offering the potential for high accuracy without incurring prohibitive computational costs. However, recent studies have indicated…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Eric Alcaide , Zhifeng Gao , Guolin Ke , Yaqi Li , Linfeng Zhang , Hang Zheng , Gengmo Zhou

Deep learning (DL) has successfully automated dose distribution prediction in radiotherapy planning, enhancing both efficiency and quality. However, existing methods suffer from the over-smoothing problem for their commonly used L1 or L2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zhenghao Feng , Lu Wen , Jianghong Xiao , Yuanyuan Xu , Xi Wu , Jiliu Zhou , Xingchen Peng , Yan Wang

Diffusion-based voxel prior modelling is challenging for the reconstruction of large-scale 3D porous microstructures. Due to the demanding requirements for simultaneously modelling both the continuous pore morphology and the discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yue Shi , Peng Wang , Mingzhe Yu , Yunlong Zhao , Li Liu , Gareth D Hatton , Yan Lyu , Liangxiu Han

Designing 3D ligands within a target binding site is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Existing structured-based drug design methods treat all ligand atoms equally, which ignores different roles of atoms in the ligand for drug design…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-14 Jiaqi Guan , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

Machine learning models struggle with generalization when encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) samples with unexpected distribution shifts. For vision tasks, recent studies have shown that test-time adaptation employing diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yun-Yun Tsai , Fu-Chen Chen , Albert Y. C. Chen , Junfeng Yang , Che-Chun Su , Min Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo

Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains highly challenging in cluttered or occluded scenes. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Tang , Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Jiewen Lai , Chi Kit Ng , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Drug development is a critical but notoriously resource- and time-consuming process. In this manuscript, we develop a novel generative artificial intelligence (genAI) method DiffSMol to facilitate drug development. DiffSmol generates 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ziqi Chen , Bo Peng , Tianhua Zhai , Daniel Adu-Ampratwum , Xia Ning

Machine learning approaches to Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) have proven quite fertile over the last few years. In particular, diffusion-based approaches to SBDD have shown great promise. We present a technique which expands on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Matan Halfon , Eyal Rozenberg , Ehud Rivlin , Daniel Freedman

The generation of 3D molecules requires simultaneously deciding the categorical features~(atom types) and continuous features~(atom coordinates). Deep generative models, especially Diffusion Models (DMs), have demonstrated effectiveness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yuxuan Song , Jingjing Gong , Minkai Xu , Ziyao Cao , Yanyan Lan , Stefano Ermon , Hao Zhou , Wei-Ying Ma

Predictive Coding (PC) is a theoretical framework in cognitive science suggesting that the human brain processes cognition through spatiotemporal prediction of the visual world. Existing studies have developed spatiotemporal prediction…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kaiyuan Chen , Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

The real-time process of directional changes while drilling, known as geosteering, is crucial for hydrocarbon extraction and emerging directional drilling applications such as geothermal energy, civil infrastructure, and CO2 storage. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sergey Alyaev , Kristian Fossum , Hibat Errahmen Djecta , Jan Tveranger , Ahmed H. Elsheikh

The knowledge of potentially druggable binding sites on proteins is an important preliminary step towards the discovery of novel drugs. The computational prediction of such areas can be boosted by following the recent major advances in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-17 Stelios K. Mylonas , Apostolos Axenopoulos , Petros Daras

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on fine spatio-temporal scales for high-fidelity solutions is critical for numerous scientific breakthroughs. Yet, this process can be prohibitively expensive, owing to the inherent complexities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yulong Lu , Wuzhe Xu

During a geosteering operation the well path is intentionally adjusted in response to the new data acquired while drilling. To achieve consistent high-quality decisions, especially when drilling in complex environments, decision support…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Kristian Fossum , Sergey Alyaev , Jan Tveranger , Ahmed Elsheikh