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Diffusion models have become prevalent in generative modeling due to their ability to sample from complex distributions. To improve the quality of generated samples and their compliance with user requirements, two commonly used methods are:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shervin Khalafi , Ignacio Hounie , Dongsheng Ding , Alejandro Ribeiro

Synthesizing fully developed three-dimensional turbulent velocity fields remains a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics and an open challenge for generative modeling. The difficulty arises from the coexistence of extreme dimensionality,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Tianyi Li , Michele Buzzicotti , Fabio Bonaccorso , Luca Biferale

We study a fundamental problem in structure-based drug design -- generating molecules that bind to specific protein binding sites. While we have witnessed the great success of deep generative models in drug design, the existing methods are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Shitong Luo , Jiaqi Guan , Jianzhu Ma , Jian Peng

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) faces a fundamental scaling fidelity dilemma: rich pocket-aware conditioning captures interaction geometry but can be costly, often scales quadratically ($O(L^2)$) or worse with protein length ($L$), while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Samyak Sanghvi , Nishant Ranjan , Tarak Karmakar

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have demonstrated significant potential in 3D medical image segmentation tasks. However, their high computational cost and inability to fully capture global 3D contextual information limit their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Kangbo Ma

Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Qizhi Pei , Kaiyuan Gao , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Kun He , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Protein engineering is experiencing a paradigmatic shift through the integration of geometric deep learning into computational design workflows. While traditional strategies, such as rational design and directed evolution, have enabled…

This paper investigates score-based diffusion models when the underlying target distribution is concentrated on or near low-dimensional manifolds within the higher-dimensional space in which they formally reside, a common characteristic of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Gen Li , Yuling Yan

Diffusion models excel at creating visually-convincing images, but they often struggle to meet subtle constraints inherent in the training data. Such constraints could be physics-based (e.g., satisfying a PDE), geometric (e.g., respecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Berthy T. Feng , Ricardo Baptista , Katherine L. Bouman

Many real-world machine learning tasks require outputs that satisfy hard constraints, such as physical conservation laws, structured dependencies in graphs, or column-level relationships in tabular data. Existing approaches rely either on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pantelis Dogoulis , Fabien Bernier , Félix Fourreau , Karim Tit , Maxime Cordy

Deep learning models can predict protein properties with unprecedented accuracy but rarely offer mechanistic insight or actionable guidance for engineering improved variants. When a model flags an antibody as unstable, the protein engineer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Weronika Kłos , Sidney Bender , Lukas Kades

We propose and discuss a novel strategy for protein design. The method is based on recent theoretical advancements which showed the importance to treat carefully the conformational free energy of designed sequences. In this work we show how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Rossi , A. Maritan , C. Micheletti

Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in text-guided and image-conditioned image generation. However, existing diffusion models cannot simultaneously generate an image and a panoptic segmentation of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yinghan Long , Kaushik Roy

Machine learning approaches to Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) have proven quite fertile over the last few years. In particular, diffusion-based approaches to SBDD have shown great promise. We present a technique which expands on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Matan Halfon , Eyal Rozenberg , Ehud Rivlin , Daniel Freedman

AI-assisted protein design has emerged as a critical tool for advancing biotechnology, as deep generative models have demonstrated their reliability in this domain. However, most existing models primarily utilize protein sequence or…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Changjian Zhou , Yuexi Qiu , Jia Song

The intricate three-dimensional geometries of protein tertiary structures underlie protein function and emerge through a folding process from one-dimensional chains of amino acids. The exact spatial sequence and configuration of amino…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-24 Nora Molkenthin , Steffen Mühle , Antonia S J S Mey , Marc Timme

Diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities in generating high-fidelity data across modalities such as images, audio, and video. However, their computational intensity makes deployment on edge devices a significant challenge. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dongqi Zheng

Proteins power a vast array of functional processes in living cells. The capability to create new proteins with designed structures and functions would thus enable the engineering of cellular behavior and development of protein-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-08 Yeqing Lin , Mohammed AlQuraishi

We introduce a framework for automatically defining and learning deep generative models with problem-specific structure. We tackle problem domains that are more traditionally solved by algorithms such as sorting, constraint satisfaction for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Christian Weilbach , William Harvey , Frank Wood

Generating protein sequences that fold into a intended 3D structure is a fundamental step in de novo protein design. De facto methods utilize autoregressive generation, but this eschews higher order interactions that could be exploited to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-06 John J. Yang , Jason Yim , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola