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Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a family of probabilistic generative models that learn to sample compositional objects proportional to their rewards. One big challenge of GFlowNets is training them effectively when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zarif Ikram , Ling Pan , Dianbo Liu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a class of generative models have recently emerged as a suitable framework for generating diverse and high-quality molecular structures by learning from unnormalized reward distributions. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohit Pandey , Gopeshh Subbaraj , Emmanuel Bengio

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a new family of probabilistic samplers where an agent learns a stochastic policy for generating complex combinatorial structure through a series of decision-making steps. Despite being inspired from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Dinghuai Zhang , Ling Pan , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

This paper builds bridges between two families of probabilistic algorithms: (hierarchical) variational inference (VI), which is typically used to model distributions over continuous spaces, and generative flow networks (GFlowNets), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Nikolay Malkin , Salem Lahlou , Tristan Deleu , Xu Ji , Edward Hu , Katie Everett , Dinghuai Zhang , Yoshua Bengio

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

Building predictive models for tabular data presents fundamental challenges, notably in scaling consistently, i.e., more resources translating to better performance, and generalizing systematically beyond the training data distribution.…

The performance of sensor arrays in sensing and wireless communications improves with more elements, but this comes at the cost of increased energy consumption and hardware expense. This work addresses the challenge of selecting $k$ sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Spilios Evmorfos , Zhaoyi Xu , Athina Petropulu

In the last decades, the capacity to generate large amounts of data in science and engineering applications has been growing steadily. Meanwhile, machine learning has progressed to become a suitable tool to process and utilise the available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Nikita Saxena , Moksh Jain , Cheng-Hao Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Investigating conformational landscapes of proteins is a crucial way to understand their biological functions and properties. AlphaFlow stands out as a sequence-conditioned generative model that introduces flexibility into structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Shaoning Li , Mingyu Li , Yusong Wang , Xinheng He , Nanning Zheng , Jian Zhang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Phylogenetics is a branch of computational biology that studies the evolutionary relationships among biological entities. Its long history and numerous applications notwithstanding, inference of phylogenetic trees from sequence data remains…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-26 Mingyang Zhou , Zichao Yan , Elliot Layne , Nikolay Malkin , Dinghuai Zhang , Moksh Jain , Mathieu Blanchette , Yoshua Bengio

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) is currently the method of choice both for generative, as well as for discriminative learning in computer vision and machine learning. The success of DCNNs can be attributed to the careful…

Deep Learning Library (DLL) is a new library for machine learning with deep neural networks that focuses on speed. It supports feed-forward neural networks such as fully-connected Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Convolutional Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-15 Baptiste Wicht , Jean Hennebert , Andreas Fischer

Biological machine learning is often bottlenecked by a lack of scaled data. One promising route to relieving data bottlenecks is through high throughput screens, which can experimentally test the activity of $10^6-10^{12}$ protein sequences…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Eli N. Weinstein , Andrei Slabodkin , Mattia G. Gollub , Elizabeth B. Wood

Generative Flow Networks (or GFlowNets for short) are a family of probabilistic agents that learn to sample complex combinatorial structures through the lens of "inference as control". They have shown great potential in generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ling Pan , Dinghuai Zhang , Moksh Jain , Longbo Huang , Yoshua Bengio

A fundamental challenge in protein design is the trade-off between generating structural diversity while preserving motif biological function. Current state-of-the-art methods, such as partial diffusion in RFdiffusion, often fail to resolve…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-22 Kevin Michalewicz , Chen Jin , Philip Alexander Teare , Tom Diethe , Mauricio Barahona , Barbara Bravi , Asher Mullokandov

Tackling the most pressing problems for humanity, such as the climate crisis and the threat of global pandemics, requires accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. While science has traditionally relied on trial and error and even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Moksh Jain , Tristan Deleu , Jason Hartford , Cheng-Hao Liu , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Yoshua Bengio

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms for training a sequential sampler of discrete objects under an unnormalized target density and have been successfully used for various probabilistic modeling tasks. Existing…

DNA-encoded library (DEL) screening and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling are two techniques used in drug discovery to find small molecules that bind a protein target. Applying QSAR modeling to DEL data can…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-29 Katherine S. Lim , Andrew G. Reidenbach , Bruce K. Hua , Jeremy W. Mason , Christopher J. Gerry , Paul A. Clemons , Connor W. Coley

Powerful generative AI models of protein-ligand structure have recently been proposed, but few of these methods support both flexible protein-ligand docking and affinity estimation. Of those that do, none can directly model multiple binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alex Morehead , Jianlin Cheng