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Despite the prevalence and many successes of deep learning applications in de novo molecular design, the problem of peptide generation targeting specific proteins remains unsolved. A main barrier for this is the scarcity of the high-quality…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Tong Lin , Sijie Chen , Ruchira Basu , Dehu Pei , Xiaolin Cheng , Levent Burak Kara

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to design small-molecule ligands that bind with high affinity and specificity to pre-determined protein targets. Generative SBDD methods leverage structural data of drugs in complex with their protein…

Latent-space modeling has been the standard for Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). However, it relies on a two-stage pipeline where the pretrained autoencoder introduces lossy reconstruction, leading to error accumulation while hindering joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yongsheng Yu , Wei Xiong , Weili Nie , Yichen Sheng , Shiqiu Liu , Jiebo Luo

Many modern ViT backbones adopt spatial architectural designs, such as window attention, decomposed relative positional embeddings in SAM, and RoPE in DINOv3. Such architectures impose new challenges on token reduction, as the vast majority…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenyi Gong , Mieszko Lis

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Recent breakthroughs in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have revolutionized the field of visual synthesis due to their superior scalability. To facilitate DiTs' capability of capturing meaningful internal representations, recent works such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mengping Yang , Zhiyu Tan , Binglei Li , Xiaomeng Yang , Hesen Chen , Hao Li

Protein structure generative models have seen a recent surge of interest, but meaningfully evaluating them computationally is an active area of research. While current metrics have driven useful progress, they do not capture how well models…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-25 Felix Faltings , Hannes Stark , Tommi Jaakkola , Regina Barzilay

Diffusion models offer a powerful means of capturing the manifold of realistic protein structures, enabling rapid design for protein engineering tasks. However, existing approaches observe critical failure modes when precise constraints are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Jacob K. Christopher , Austin Seamann , Jingyi Cui , Sagar Khare , Ferdinando Fioretto

Genome sequence analysis, which examines the DNA sequences of organisms, drives advances in many critical medical and biotechnological fields. Given its importance and the exponentially growing volumes of genomic sequence data, there are…

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have attracted significant attention in research. However, they suffer from a slow convergence rate. In this paper, we aim to accelerate DiT training without any architectural modification. We identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jingfeng Yao , Wang Cheng , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

We investigate the statistical and computational limits of latent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) under the low-dimensional linear latent space assumption. Statistically, we study the universal approximation and sample complexity of the DiTs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Weimin Wu , Zhao Song , Han Liu

Over the past few years, vision transformers (ViTs) have consistently demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual recognition tasks. However, attempts to enhance their robustness have yielded limited success, mainly focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Nick Nikzad , Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou

We propose a hierarchical protein backbone generative model that separates coarse and fine-grained details. Our approach called LSD consists of two stages: sampling latents which are decoded into a contact map then sampling atomic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-15 Jason Yim , Marouane Jaakik , Ge Liu , Jacob Gershon , Karsten Kreis , David Baker , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Kinship face synthesis is a challenging problem due to the scarcity and low quality of the available kinship data. Existing methods often struggle to generate descendants with both high diversity and fidelity while precisely controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Pin-Yen Chiu , Dai-Jie Wu , Po-Hsun Chu , Chia-Hsuan Hsu , Hsiang-Chen Chiu , Chih-Yu Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen

The scarcity of experimental protein-ligand complexes poses a significant challenge for training robust deep learning models for molecular docking. Given the prohibitive cost and time constraints associated with experimental structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Sofiene Khiari , Matthew R. Masters , Amr H. Mahmoud , Markus A. Lill

While the diffusion transformer (DiT) has become a focal point of interest in recent years, its application in low-light image enhancement remains a blank area for exploration. Current methods recover the details from low-light images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Longtao Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiao Sun , Zhi Liu , Xun Yang

Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Akash Haridas , Utkarsh Saxena , Parsa Ashrafi Fashi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Vikram Appia , Emad Barsoum

Traditional drug discovery relies on rounds of screening millions of candidate molecules with low success rates, making drug discovery time and resource intensive. To overcome this screening bottleneck, we introduce Latent-X, an all-atom…

Recently, Transformers have emerged as the go-to architecture for both vision and language modeling tasks, but their computational efficiency is limited by the length of the input sequence. To address this, several efficient variants of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Hao Zheng , Jinbao Wang , Xiantong Zhen , Hong Chen , Jingkuan Song , Feng Zheng

Have you ever been troubled by the complexity and computational cost of SE(3) protein structure modeling and been amazed by the simplicity and power of language modeling? Recent work has shown promise in simplifying protein structures as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-25 Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li