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Generating molecules with desired chemical properties presents a critical challenge in fields such as chemical synthesis and drug discovery. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning have significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chen Li , Huidong Tang , Ye Zhu , Yoshihiro Yamanishi

Models that accurately predict properties based on chemical structure are valuable tools in drug discovery. However, for many properties, public and private training sets are typically small, and it is difficult for the models to generalize…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-08 Oscar Méndez-Lucio , Christos Nicolaou , Berton Earnshaw

De novo 3D molecule generation is a pivotal task in drug discovery. However, many recent geometric generative models struggle to produce high-quality 3D structures, even if they maintain 2D validity and topological stability. To tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Danny Reidenbach , Filipp Nikitin , Olexandr Isayev , Saee Paliwal

Synthesizable molecular design (also known as synthesizable molecular optimization) is a fundamental problem in drug discovery, and involves designing novel molecular structures to improve their properties according to drug-relevant oracle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Dannong Wang , Jintai Chen , Yingzhou Lu , Minjie Shen , Lulu Chen , Zhiding Liang , Tianfan Fu , Xiao-Yang Liu

In recent years, deep generative models have been successfully adopted for various molecular design tasks, particularly in the life and material sciences. A critical challenge for pre-trained generative molecular design (GMD) models is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 A N M Nafiz Abeer , Sanket Jantre , Nathan M Urban , Byung-Jun Yoon

In this paper, we propose a deep evolutionary learning (DEL) process that integrates fragment-based deep generative model and multi-objective evolutionary computation for molecular design. Our approach enables (1) evolutionary operations in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yifeng Li , Hsu Kiang Ooi , Alain Tchagang

In recent years the scientific community has devoted much effort in the development of deep learning models for the generation of new molecules with desirable properties (i.e. drugs). This has produced many proposals in literature. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Davide Rigoni , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

Designing molecules with specific properties is a long-lasting research problem and is central to advancing crucial domains such as drug discovery and material science. Recent advances in deep graph generative models treat molecule design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuanqi Du , Xiaojie Guo , Amarda Shehu , Liang Zhao

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the field of drug discovery has been a growing area of interdisciplinary scientific research. However, conventional AI models are heavily limited in handling complex biomedical structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhiqiang Zhong , Anastasia Barkova , Davide Mottin

Domain-aware machine learning (ML) models have been increasingly adopted for accelerating small molecule therapeutic design in the recent years. These models have been enabled by significant advancement in state-of-the-art artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Rajendra P. Joshi , Neeraj Kumar

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) remains a clinical challenge due to its extreme molecular heterogeneity and high relapse rates. While precision medicine has introduced mutation-specific therapies, many patients still lack effective,…

Geometric deep learning (GDL), which is based on neural network architectures that incorporate and process symmetry information, has emerged as a recent paradigm in artificial intelligence. GDL bears particular promise in molecular modeling…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Kenneth Atz , Francesca Grisoni , Gisbert Schneider

Recently, 3D generative models have shown promising performances in structure-based drug design by learning to generate ligands given target binding sites. However, only modeling the target-ligand distribution can hardly fulfill one of the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-22 Xiangxin Zhou , Xiwei Cheng , Yuwei Yang , Yu Bao , Liang Wang , Quanquan Gu

Large Language Models (LLMs) employ three popular training approaches: Masked Language Models (MLM), Causal Language Models (CLM), and Sequence-to-Sequence Models (seq2seq). However, each approach has its strengths and limitations, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xuefeng Liu , Songhao Jiang , Bo Li , Rick Stevens

Machine learning (ML) is a promising approach for predicting small molecule properties in drug discovery. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of various ML methods introduced for this purpose in recent years. We review a wide range of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-25 Nikolai Schapin , Maciej Majewski , Alejandro Varela , Carlos Arroniz , Gianni De Fabritiis

The precise prediction of molecular properties is essential for advancements in drug development, particularly in virtual screening and compound optimization. The recent introduction of numerous deep learning-based methods has shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Taojie Kuang , Pengfei Liu , Zhixiang Ren

A proof-of-concept framework for identifying molecules of unknown elemental composition and structure using experimental rotational data and probabilistic deep learning is presented. Using a minimal set of input data determined…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Michael C. McCarthy , Kin Long Kelvin Lee

In the majority of molecular optimization tasks, predictive machine learning (ML) models are limited due to the unavailability and cost of generating big experimental datasets on the specific task. To circumvent this limitation, ML models…

Machine learning (ML) has been playing important roles in drug discovery in the past years by providing (pre-)screening tools for prioritising chemical compounds to pass through wet lab experiments. One of the main ML tasks in drug…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-25 Alex G. C. de Sá , David B. Ascher

Molecular optimization (MO) is a crucial stage in drug discovery in which task-oriented generated molecules are optimized to meet practical industrial requirements. Existing mainstream MO approaches primarily utilize external property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yida Xiong , Kun Li , Jiameng Chen , Hongzhi Zhang , Di Lin , Yan Che , Wenbin Hu