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This tutorial provides an in-depth guide on inference-time guidance and alignment methods for optimizing downstream reward functions in diffusion models. While diffusion models are renowned for their generative modeling capabilities,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Masatoshi Uehara , Yulai Zhao , Chenyu Wang , Xiner Li , Aviv Regev , Sergey Levine , Tommaso Biancalani

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, achieving state-of-the-art results in continuous data domains such as image and video generation. Their core mechanism involves a forward diffusion process that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ashen Weligalle

Designing protein sequences with specific biological functions and structural stability is crucial in biology and chemistry. Generative models already demonstrated their capabilities for reliable protein design. However, previous models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lin Zongying , Li Hao , Lv Liuzhenghao , Lin Bin , Zhang Junwu , Chen Calvin Yu-Chian , Yuan Li , Tian Yonghong

Understanding and predicting the diverse conformational states of molecules is crucial for advancing fields such as chemistry, material science, and drug development. Despite significant progress in generative models, accurately generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhejun Zhang , Yuanping Chen , Shibing Chu

Nature creates diverse proteins through a 'divide and assembly' strategy. Inspired by this idea, we introduce ProteinWeaver, a two-stage framework for protein backbone design. Our method first generates individual protein domains and then…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-28 Yiming Ma , Fei Ye , Yi Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Dongyu Xue , Quanquan Gu

The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Axel Levy , Eric R. Chan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Frédéric Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong , Gordon Wetzstein

Generative models have shown great promise in generating 3D geometric systems, which is a fundamental problem in many natural science domains such as molecule and protein design. However, existing approaches only operate on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Aaron Lou , Haotian Ye , Stefano Ermon

Due to the high complexity and technical requirements of industrial production processes, surface defects will inevitably appear, which seriously affects the quality of products. Although existing lightweight detection networks are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xuyi Yu

Diffusion models have become a new SOTA generative modeling method in various fields, for which there are multiple survey works that provide an overall survey. With the number of articles on diffusion models increasing exponentially in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Mengchun Zhang , Maryam Qamar , Taegoo Kang , Yuna Jung , Chenshuang Zhang , Sung-Ho Bae , Chaoning Zhang

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to design small-molecule ligands that bind with high affinity and specificity to pre-determined protein targets. Generative SBDD methods leverage structural data of drugs in complex with their protein…

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) are a very popular class of deep generative model that have been successfully applied to a diverse range of problems including image and video generation, protein and material synthesis,…

Proteins are shaped by gradual evolution under biophysical and functional constraints. Protein language models learn rich evolutionary constraints from large-scale sequences, and discrete diffusion-based protein language models~(\eg, DPLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xinyou Wang , Liang Hong , Jiasheng Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Yu Li , Shujian Huang , Quanquan Gu

This Letter introduces an approach for precisely designing surface friction properties using a conditional generative machine learning model, specifically a diffusion denoising probabilistic model (DDPM). We created a dataset of synthetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Even Marius Nordhagen , Henrik Andersen Sveinsson , Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

There has been a longstanding belief that generation can facilitate a true understanding of visual data. In line with this, we revisit generatively pre-training visual representations in light of recent interest in denoising diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chen Wei , Karttikeya Mangalam , Po-Yao Huang , Yanghao Li , Haoqi Fan , Hu Xu , Huiyu Wang , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Stan Z. Li

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective function takes the form of a simulator that predicts how the…

We present a concise, self-contained derivation of diffusion-based generative models. Starting from basic properties of Gaussian distributions (densities, quadratic expectations, re-parameterisation, products, and KL divergences), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sepehr Maleki , Negar Pourmoazemi

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuyan Ni , Shikun Feng , Haohan Chi , Bowen Zheng , Huan-ang Gao , Wei-Ying Ma , Zhi-Ming Ma , Yanyan Lan

Many crucial biological processes rely on networks of protein-protein interactions. Predicting the effect of amino acid mutations on protein-protein binding is vital in protein engineering and therapeutic discovery. However, the scarcity of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-01 Shiwei Liu , Tian Zhu , Milong Ren , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu , Haicang Zhang