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Designing molecules with desirable physiochemical properties and functionalities is a long-standing challenge in chemistry, material science, and drug discovery. Recently, machine learning-based generative models have emerged as promising…

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Many inverse problems are ill-posed and need to be complemented by prior information that restricts the class of admissible models. Bayesian approaches encode this information as prior distributions that impose generic properties on the…

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Drug discovery is a complex, resource-intensive process requiring significant time and cost to bring new medicines to patients. Many generative models aim to accelerate drug discovery, but few produce synthetically accessible molecules.…

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Advanced generative model (e.g., diffusion model) derived from simplified continuity assumptions of data distribution, though showing promising progress, has been difficult to apply directly to geometry generation applications due to the…

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Graph-structured data jointly contain discrete topology and continuous geometry, which poses fundamental challenges for generative modeling due to heterogeneous distributions, incompatible noise dynamics, and the need for equivariant…

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Generating 3D images of complex objects conditionally from a few 2D views is a difficult synthesis problem, compounded by issues such as domain gap and geometric misalignment. For instance, a unified framework such as Generative Adversarial…

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Deep learning has proven to yield fast and accurate predictions of quantum-chemical properties to accelerate the discovery of novel molecules and materials. As an exhaustive exploration of the vast chemical space is still infeasible, we…

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Developing bioactive molecules remains a central, time- and cost-heavy challenge in drug discovery, particularly for novel targets lacking structural or functional data. Pharmacophore modeling presents an alternative for capturing the key…

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Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a novel Straight-Line Diffusion Model (SLDM) to tackle this…

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Document dewarping aims to rectify deformations in photographic document images, thus improving text readability, which has attracted much attention and made great progress, but it is still challenging to preserve document structures. Given…

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Molecular structure generation is a fundamental problem that involves determining the 3D positions of molecules' constituents. It has crucial biological applications, such as molecular docking, protein folding, and molecular design. Recent…

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We present an investigation into diffusion models for molecular generation, with the aim of better understanding how their predictions compare to the results of physics-based calculations. The investigation into these models is driven by…

We present Surf-D, a novel method for generating high-quality 3D shapes as Surfaces with arbitrary topologies using Diffusion models. Previous methods explored shape generation with different representations and they suffer from limited…

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Many generative tasks in chemistry and science involve distributions invariant to group symmetries (e.g., permutation and rotation). A common strategy enforces invariance and equivariance through architectural constraints such as…

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Recent advances in molecular generative models have demonstrated great promise for accelerating scientific discovery, particularly in drug design. However, these models often struggle to generate high-quality molecules, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zian Li , Cai Zhou , Xiyuan Wang , Xingang Peng , Muhan Zhang

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

The vast applications of deep generative models are anchored in three core capabilities -- generating new instances, reconstructing inputs, and learning compact representations -- across various data types, such as discrete text/protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Guangyi Liu , Yu Wang , Zeyu Feng , Qiyu Wu , Liping Tang , Yuan Gao , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui , Julian McAuley , Zichao Yang , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Ground-state 3D geometries of molecules are essential for many molecular analysis tasks. Modern quantum mechanical methods can compute accurate 3D geometries but are computationally prohibitive. Currently, an efficient alternative to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Zhao Xu , Yaochen Xie , Youzhi Luo , Xuan Zhang , Xinyi Xu , Meng Liu , Kaleb Dickerson , Cheng Deng , Maho Nakata , Shuiwang Ji

De novo molecular generation from tandem mass spectra is a challenging inverse problem whose core difficulty lies in the circular dependency between atom-level and bond-level reasoning: determining a bond's type requires knowing its…

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Generating diverse, all-atom conformational ensembles of dynamic proteins such as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is critical for understanding their function, yet most generative models simplify atomic detail or ignore conformational…

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