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Recent advances in machine learning have enabled generative models for both optimization and de novo generation of drug candidates with desired properties. Previous generative models have focused on producing SMILES strings or 2D molecular…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-25 Michael Arcidiacono , David Ryan Koes

We introduce 3DShape2VecSet, a novel shape representation for neural fields designed for generative diffusion models. Our shape representation can encode 3D shapes given as surface models or point clouds, and represents them as neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Biao Zhang , Jiapeng Tang , Matthias Niessner , Peter Wonka

We present LATTICE, a new framework for high-fidelity 3D asset generation that bridges the quality and scalability gap between 3D and 2D generative models. While 2D image synthesis benefits from fixed spatial grids and well-established…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zeqiang Lai , Yunfei Zhao , Zibo Zhao , Haolin Liu , Qingxiang Lin , Jingwei Huang , Chunchao Guo , Xiangyu Yue

Inspired by generative paradigms in image and video, 3D shape generation has made notable progress, enabling the rapid synthesis of high-fidelity 3D assets from a single image. However, current methods still face challenges, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yangguang Li , Xianglong He , Zi-Xin Zou , Zexiang Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Ding Liang , Yan-Pei Cao

Generating molecules that bind to specific proteins is an important but challenging task in drug discovery. Previous works usually generate atoms in an auto-regressive way, where element types and 3D coordinates of atoms are generated one…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Siqi Ma , Meng Liu , Xuanjing Li , Lirong Wu , Jishui Wang , Tingjun Hou , Stan Z. Li

Recent advancements in 3D generative modeling have significantly improved the generation realism, yet the field is still hampered by existing representations, which struggle to capture assets with complex topologies and detailed appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jianfeng Xiang , Xiaoxue Chen , Sicheng Xu , Ruicheng Wang , Zelong Lv , Yu Deng , Hongyuan Zhu , Yue Dong , Hao Zhao , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Jiaolong Yang

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

Despite the latest remarkable advances in generative modeling, efficient generation of high-quality 3D assets from textual prompts remains a difficult task. A key challenge lies in data scarcity: the most extensive 3D datasets encompass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Antoine Mercier , Ramin Nakhli , Mahesh Reddy , Rajeev Yasarla , Hong Cai , Fatih Porikli , Guillaume Berger

Much scientific enquiry across disciplines is founded upon a mechanistic treatment of dynamic systems that ties form to function. A highly visible instance of this is in molecular biology, where an important goal is to determine…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-17 Xiaojie Guo , Yuanqi Du , Sivani Tadepalli , Liang Zhao , Amarda Shehu

Designing novel protein sequences for a desired 3D topological fold is a fundamental yet non-trivial task in protein engineering. Challenges exist due to the complex sequence--fold relationship, as well as the difficulties to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yue Cao , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Pin-Yu Chen , Igor Melnyk , Yang Shen

Designing new protein structures is fundamental to computational biology, enabling advances in therapeutic molecule discovery and enzyme engineering. Existing diffusion-based generative models typically operate in Cartesian coordinate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Lakshaditya Singh , Adwait Shelke , Divyansh Agrawal

This paper presents a novel latent 3D diffusion model for the generation of neural voxel fields, aiming to achieve accurate part-aware structures. Compared to existing methods, there are two key designs to ensure high-quality and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yuhang Huang , SHilong Zou , Xinwang Liu , Kai Xu

Evaluating code generation models for 3D spatial reasoning requires executing generated code in realistic environments and assessing outputs beyond surface-level correctness. We introduce a platform VoxelCode, for analyzing code generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yan Zheng , Florian Bordes

Modern generative models achieve excellent quality in a variety of tasks including image or text generation and chemical molecule modeling. However, existing methods often lack the essential ability to generate examples with requested…

Proteins are dynamic, adopting ensembles of conformations. The nature of this conformational heterogenity is imprinted in the raw electron density measurements obtained from X-ray crystallography experiments. Fitting an ensemble of protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-19 Sai Advaith Maddipatla , Nadav Bojan Sellam , Sanketh Vedula , Ailie Marx , Alex Bronstein

This paper presents a new approach for 3D shape generation, enabling direct generative modeling on a continuous implicit representation in wavelet domain. Specifically, we propose a compact wavelet representation with a pair of coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Ka-Hei Hui , Ruihui Li , Jingyu Hu , Chi-Wing Fu

The conditional generation of proteins with desired functions is a key goal for generative models. Existing methods based on prompting of protein language models (PLMs) can generate proteins conditioned on a target functionality, such as a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Jason Yang , Aadyot Bhatnagar , Jeffrey A. Ruffolo , Ali Madani

Structure-based drug design, i.e., finding molecules with high affinities to the target protein pocket, is one of the most critical tasks in drug discovery. Traditional solutions, like virtual screening, require exhaustively searching on a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-16 Shuqi Lu , Lin Yao , Xi Chen , Hang Zheng , Di He , Guolin Ke

Deep generative models of 3D shapes have received a great deal of research interest. Yet, almost all of them generate discrete shape representations, such as voxels, point clouds, and polygon meshes. We present the first 3D generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Rundi Wu , Chang Xiao , Changxi Zheng

Significant progress has been made in training large generative models for natural language and images. Yet, the advancement of 3D generative models is hindered by their substantial resource demands for training, along with inefficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ka-Hei Hui , Aditya Sanghi , Arianna Rampini , Kamal Rahimi Malekshan , Zhengzhe Liu , Hooman Shayani , Chi-Wing Fu