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Significant progress in computer hardware and software have enabled molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to model complex biological phenomena such as protein folding. However, enabling MD simulations to access biologically relevant…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-02 Heng Ma , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Hyungro Lee , Matteo Turilli , Michael T. Young , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan

Deep generative models that produce novel molecular structures have the potential to facilitate chemical discovery. Flow matching is a recently proposed generative modeling framework that has achieved impressive performance on a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ian Dunn , David R. Koes

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are powerful samplers for compositional objects that, by design, sample proportionally to a given non-negative reward. Nonetheless, in practice, they often struggle to explore the reward landscape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pedro Dall'Antonia , Tiago da Silva , Daniel Augusto de Souza , César Lincoln C. Mattos , Diego Mesquita

Discrete diffusion and flow matching models capture complex, non-additive and non-autoregressive structure in high-dimensional objective landscapes through parallel, iterative refinement. However, their implicit generative nature precludes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yashvir S. Grewal , Daniel M. Steinberg , Thang D. Bui , Cheng Soon Ong , Edwin V. Bonilla

A generalized understanding of protein dynamics is an unsolved scientific problem, the solution of which is critical to the interpretation of the structure-function relationships that govern essential biological processes. Here, we approach…

Flow Matching (FM) is an effective framework for training a model to learn a vector field that transports samples from a source distribution to a target distribution. To train the model, early FM methods use random couplings, which often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yexiong Lin , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Binh Nguyen , Anh Tran

In a recent paper, J. Chem. Phys. 162, 214101 (2025), a novel approach for the rigidification of a molecular cluster was proposed, in which starting with an all-atom (AA) potential, a coarse-grained (CG) potential for the associated cluster…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 João V. M. Pimentel , Vladimir A. Mandelshtam

In recent years, hybrid design strategies combining machine learning (ML) with electromagnetic optimization algorithms have emerged as a new paradigm for the inverse design of photonic structures and devices. While a trained, data-driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Christopher Yeung , Benjamin Pham , Ryan Tsai , Katherine T. Fountaine , Aaswath P. Raman

Data-driven modeling of constrained multibody dynamics remains challenged by (i) the training cost of Neural ODEs, which typically require backpropagation through an ODE solver, and (ii) error accumulation in rollout predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Dan Negrut

Attenuation correction (AC) is necessary for accurate activity quantification in positron emission tomography (PET). Conventional reconstruction methods typically rely on attenuation maps derived from a co-registered computed tomography…

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Aditya Sengar , Ali Hariri , Daniel Probst , Patrick Barth , Pierre Vandergheynst

Current all-atom potential based molecular dynamics (MD) allow the identification of a protein's functional motions on a wide-range of time-scales, up to few tens of ns. However, functional large scale motions of proteins may occur on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristian Micheletti , Paolo Carloni , Amos Maritan

Complementarity Determining Regions (CDRs) are critical segments of an antibody that facilitate binding to specific antigens. Current computational methods for CDR design utilize reconstruction losses and do not jointly optimize binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Abrar Rahman Abir , Haz Sameen Shahgir , Md Rownok Zahan Ratul , Md Toki Tahmid , Greg Ver Steeg , Yue Dong

Proteins typically exist in complexes, interacting with other proteins or biomolecules to perform their specific biological roles. Research on single-chain protein modeling has been extensively and deeply explored, with advancements seen in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ruizhe Chen , Dongyu Xue , Xiangxin Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Xiangxiang Zeng , Quanquan Gu

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a class of generative models have recently emerged as a suitable framework for generating diverse and high-quality molecular structures by learning from unnormalized reward distributions. Previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mohit Pandey , Gopeshh Subbaraj , Emmanuel Bengio

Boltzmann Generators have emerged as a promising machine learning tool for generating samples from equilibrium distributions of molecular systems using Normalizing Flows and importance weighting. Recently, Flow Matching has helped speed up…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Lorenz Vaitl , Leon Klein

Dense and versatile image representations underpin the success of virtually all computer vision applications. However, state-of-the-art networks, such as transformers, produce low-resolution feature grids, which are suboptimal for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Anna Sonnweber , Daniel Cremers

Peptides, short chains of amino acid residues, play a vital role in numerous biological processes by interacting with other target molecules, offering substantial potential in drug discovery. In this work, we present PepFlow, the first…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-04 Jiahan Li , Chaoran Cheng , Zuofan Wu , Ruihan Guo , Shitong Luo , Zhizhou Ren , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

The design of \emph{de novo} functional proteins that bind specific ligand molecules is paramount in therapeutics and bio-engineering. A critical yet formidable task in this endeavor is the design of the protein pocket, which is the cavity…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-23 Zaixi Zhang , Zepu Lu , Zhongkai Hao , Marinka Zitnik , Qi Liu