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Efficient design and discovery of target-driven molecules is a critical step in facilitating lead optimization in drug discovery. Current approaches to develop molecules for a target protein are intuition-driven, hampered by slow iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Andrew D. McNaughton , Mridula S. Bontha , Carter R. Knutson , Jenna A. Pope , Neeraj Kumar

Recent advances in deep learning have accelerated its use in various applications, such as cellular image analysis and molecular discovery. In molecular discovery, a generative adversarial network (GAN), which comprises a discriminator to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Daniel Manu , Jingjing Yao , Wuji Liu , Xiang Sun

Deep generative models, such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), are pivotal in discovering novel drug-like candidates via de novo molecular generation. However, traditional character-wise tokenizers often struggle with identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Huidong Tang , Chen Li , Yasuhiko Morimoto

Traditional drug design faces significant challenges due to inherent chemical and biological complexities, often resulting in high failure rates in clinical trials. Deep learning advancements, particularly generative models, offer potential…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Mahsa Sheikholeslami , Navid Mazrouei , Yousof Gheisari , Afshin Fasihi , Matin Irajpour , Ali Motahharynia

Developing new drugs is laborious and costly, demanding extensive time investment. In this paper, we introduce a de-novo drug design strategy, which harnesses the capabilities of language models to devise targeted drugs for specific…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-20 Salma J. Ahmed , Emad A. Mohammed

In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful tool for solving a wide range of problems, including decision-making and genomics. The exponential growth of raw genomic data over the past two decades has exceeded the…

In this work, we introduce a method to fine-tune a Transformer-based generative model for molecular de novo design. Leveraging the superior sequence learning capacity of Transformers over Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), our model can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Pengcheng Xu , Tao Feng , Tianfan Fu , Siddhartha Laghuvarapu , Jimeng Sun

Designing de-novo molecules with desired property profiles requires efficient exploration of the vast chemical space ranging from $10^{23}$ to $10^{60}$ possible synthesizable candidates. While various deep generative models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kamran Chitsaz , Roshan Balaji , Quentin Fournier , Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt , Sarath Chandar

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) struggle to generate structured objects like molecules and game maps. The issue is that structured objects must satisfy hard requirements (e.g., molecules must be chemically valid) that are difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Luca Di Liello , Pierfrancesco Ardino , Jacopo Gobbi , Paolo Morettin , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

Training regimes based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) suffer from known limitations, often leading to poorly generated text sequences. At the root of these limitations is the mismatch between training and inference, i.e. the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Thomas Scialom , Paul-Alexis Dray , Sylvain Lamprier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Jacopo Staiano

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most widely used generative models. GANs can learn complex multi-modal distributions, and generate real-like samples. Despite the major success of GANs in generating synthetic data, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sanaz Mohammadjafari , Mucahit Cevik , Ayse Basar

Molecular conformation generation (MCG) is a fundamental and important problem in drug discovery. Many traditional methods have been developed to solve the MCG problem, such as systematic searching, model-building, random searching,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Gengmo Zhou , Zhifeng Gao , Zhewei Wei , Hang Zheng , Guolin Ke

In molecular research, the modelling and analysis of molecules through simulation is an important part that has a direct influence on medical development, material science and drug discovery. The processing power required to design protein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Prateek Jain , Param Pathak , Krishna Bhatia , Shalini Devendrababu , Srinjoy Ganguly

The fundamental goal of generative drug design is to propose optimized molecules that meet predefined activity, selectivity, and pharmacokinetic criteria. Despite recent progress, we argue that existing generative methods are limited in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Julien Horwood , Emmanuel Noutahi

Designing a molecule with desired properties is one of the biggest challenges in drug development, as it requires optimization of chemical compound structures with respect to many complex properties. To augment the compound design process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Łukasz Maziarka , Agnieszka Pocha , Jan Kaczmarczyk , Krzysztof Rataj , Michał Warchoł

Our main motivation is to propose an efficient approach to generate novel multi-element stable chemical compounds that can be used in real world applications. This task can be formulated as a combinatorial problem, and it takes many hours…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Asma Nouira , Nataliya Sokolovska , Jean-Claude Crivello

Anomaly detection is often considered a challenging field of machine learning due to the difficulty of obtaining anomalous samples for training and the need to obtain a sufficient amount of training data. In recent years, autoencoders have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yotam Intrator , Gilad Katz , Asaf Shabtai

In this paper, we introduce Logic Tensor Network-Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network (LTN-GAN), a novel framework that enhances Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) by incorporating Logic Tensor Networks (LTNs) to enforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

The utility of machine learning (ML) techniques in materials science has accelerated materials design and discovery. However, the accuracy of ML models - particularly deep neural networks - heavily relies on the quality and quantity of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Marzie Ghorbani , Zhipeng Li , Nick Birbilis

Traditional drug discovery programs are being transformed by the advent of machine learning methods. Among these, Generative AI methods (GM) have gained attention due to their ability to design new molecules and enhance specific properties…