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Methods for jointly generating molecular graphs along with their 3D conformations have gained prominence recently due to their potential impact on structure-based drug design. Current approaches, however, often suffer from very slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Ross Irwin , Alessandro Tibo , Jon Paul Janet , Simon Olsson

3D generative models have shown significant promise in structure-based drug design (SBDD), particularly in discovering ligands tailored to specific target binding sites. Existing algorithms often focus primarily on ligand-target binding,…

Molecule generation is a very important practical problem, with uses in drug discovery and material design, and AI methods promise to provide useful solutions. However, existing methods for molecule generation focus either on 2D graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Chenqing Hua , Sitao Luan , Minkai Xu , Rex Ying , Jie Fu , Stefano Ermon , Doina Precup

Discovery of atomistic systems with desirable properties is a major challenge in chemistry and material science. Here we introduce a novel, autoregressive, convolutional deep neural network architecture that generates molecular equilibrium…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-29 Niklas W. A. Gebauer , Michael Gastegger , Kristof T. Schütt

We consider the conditional generation of 3D drug-like molecules with \textit{explicit control} over molecular properties such as drug-like properties (e.g., Quantitative Estimate of Druglikeness or Synthetic Accessibility score) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Haoran Liu , Youzhi Luo , Tianxiao Li , James Caverlee , Martin Renqiang Min

The de novo generation of molecules with targeted properties is crucial in biology, chemistry, and drug discovery. Current generative models are limited to using single property values as conditions, struggling with complex customizations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yanchen Luo , Junfeng Fang , Sihang Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Jiancan Wu , An Zhang , Wenjie Du , Xiang Wang

Molecular conformation generation aims to generate three-dimensional coordinates of all the atoms in a molecule and is an important task in bioinformatics and pharmacology. Previous methods usually first predict the interatomic distances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Chang Liu , Lijun Wu , Shufang Xie , Yusong Wang , Tong Wang , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Haiguang Liu , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent advances in fast sampling methods for diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential to accelerate generation on image modalities. We apply these methods to 3-dimensional molecular conformations by building on the recently…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Romain Lacombe , Neal Vaidya

Transformer-based autoregressive models have emerged as a unifying paradigm across modalities such as text and images, but their extension to 3D molecule generation remains underexplored. The gap stems from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haorui Li , Weitao Du , Yuqiang Li , Hongyu Guo , Shengchao Liu

Molecular conformation generation, a critical aspect of computational chemistry, involves producing the three-dimensional conformer geometry for a given molecule. Generating molecular conformation via diffusion requires learning to reverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Chaolong Ying , Ruimao Zhang , Tianshu Yu

Deep generative models have emerged as a powerful tool for learning useful molecular representations and designing novel molecules with desired properties, with applications in drug discovery and material design. However, most existing deep…

Structure-based drug design involves finding ligand molecules that exhibit structural and chemical complementarity to protein pockets. Deep generative methods have shown promise in proposing novel molecules from scratch (de-novo design),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-09 Pavol Drotár , Arian Rokkum Jamasb , Ben Day , Cătălina Cangea , Pietro Liò

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Song , Jingjing Gong , Yanru Qu , Hao Zhou , Mingyue Zheng , Jingjing Liu , Wei-Ying Ma

Recent methods for molecular generation face a trade-off: they either enforce strict equivariance with costly architectures or relax it to gain scalability and flexibility. We propose a frame-based diffusion paradigm that achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohan Guo , Cong Liu , Patrick Forré

This work introduces a diffusion model for molecule generation in 3D that is equivariant to Euclidean transformations. Our E(3) Equivariant Diffusion Model (EDM) learns to denoise a diffusion process with an equivariant network that jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Emiel Hoogeboom , Victor Garcia Satorras , Clément Vignac , Max Welling

3D molecule generation is crucial for drug discovery and material science, requiring models to process complex multi-modalities, including atom types, chemical bonds, and 3D coordinates. A key challenge is integrating these modalities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanchen Luo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yi Zhao , Sihang Li , Hengxing Cai , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua , Yang Zhang , Xiang Wang

The design of target-specific molecules such as small molecules, peptides, and antibodies is vital for biological research and drug discovery. Existing generative methods are restricted to single-domain molecules, failing to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiangzhe Kong , Zishen Zhang , Ziting Zhang , Rui Jiao , Jianzhu Ma , Wenbing Huang , Kai Liu , Yang Liu

n this work, we propose a latent molecular diffusion model that can make the generated 3D molecules rich in diversity and maintain rich geometric features. The model captures the information of the forces and local constraints between atoms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Xiang Chen

Generative models have achieved impressive results in many domains including image and text generation. In the natural sciences, generative models have led to rapid progress in automated drug discovery. Many of the current methods focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jordan Hoffmann , Louis Maestrati , Yoshihide Sawada , Jian Tang , Jean Michel Sellier , Yoshua Bengio

Generative models for molecules based on sequential line notation (e.g. SMILES) or graph representation have attracted an increasing interest in the field of structure-based drug design, but they struggle to capture important 3D spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Wei Feng , Lvwei Wang , Zaiyun Lin , Yanhao Zhu , Han Wang , Jianqiang Dong , Rong Bai , Huting Wang , Jielong Zhou , Wei Peng , Bo Huang , Wenbiao Zhou