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The ability to design molecules while preserving similarity to a target molecule and/or property is crucial for various applications in drug discovery, chemical design, and biology. We introduce in this paper an efficient training-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiri Navratil , Jarret Ross , Payel Das , Youssef Mroueh , Samuel C Hoffman , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Brian Belgodere

Recent advancements in large language models have opened new possibilities for generative molecular drug design. We present Chemlactica and Chemma, two language models fine-tuned on a novel corpus of 110M molecules with computed properties,…

In the majority of molecular optimization tasks, predictive machine learning (ML) models are limited due to the unavailability and cost of generating big experimental datasets on the specific task. To circumvent this limitation, ML models…

Molecular optimization is a fundamental goal in the chemical sciences and is of central interest to drug and material design. In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various aspects of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenhao Gao , Tianfan Fu , Jimeng Sun , Connor W. Coley

Generative molecular optimization aims to design molecules with properties surpassing those of existing compounds. However, such candidates are rare and expensive to evaluate, yielding sample efficiency essential. Additionally, surrogate…

We present an approach to make molecular optimization more efficient. We infer a hypergraph replacement grammar from the ChEMBL database, count the frequencies of particular rules being used to expand particular nonterminals in other rules,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Egor Kraev , Mark Harley

In drug discovery, molecular optimization aims to iteratively refine a lead compound to improve molecular properties while preserving structural similarity to the original molecule. However, each oracle evaluation is expensive, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Ziqing Wang , Yibo Wen , Abhishek Pandy , Han Liu , Kaize Ding

The field of bioinformatics has seen significant progress, making the cross-modal text-molecule retrieval task increasingly vital. This task focuses on accurately retrieving molecule structures based on textual descriptions, by effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zijun Min , Bingshuai Liu , Liang Zhang , Jia Song , Jinsong Su , Song He , Xiaochen Bo

Pretrained multilingual encoder models can directly perform zero-shot multilingual tasks or linguistic probing by reformulating the input examples into cloze-style prompts. This is accomplished by predicting the probabilities of the label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ercong Nie , Helmut Schmid , Hinrich Schütze

Previous works in prompt engineering for large language models have introduced different gradient-free probability-based prompt selection methods that aim to choose the optimal prompt among the candidates for a given task but have failed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Sohee Yang , Jonghyeon Kim , Joel Jang , Seonghyeon Ye , Hyunji Lee , Minjoon Seo

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) has been widely used to efficiently optimize expensive black-box functions with limited evaluations. In this paper, we investigate the use of BO for prompt engineering to enhance text classification with Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Adam Ballew , Jingbo Wang , Shaogang Ren

Molecular optimization is a crucial yet complex and time-intensive process that often acts as a bottleneck for drug development. Traditional methods rely heavily on trial and error, making multi-objective optimization both time-consuming…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-06 Jiajun Yu , Yizhen Zheng , Huan Yee Koh , Shirui Pan , Tianyue Wang , Haishuai Wang

In this paper, we introduce, MultiGA, an optimization framework which applies genetic algorithm principles to address complex natural language tasks and reasoning problems by sampling from a diverse population of LLMs to initialize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Isabelle Diana May-Xin Ng , Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Haitao Zhu , Wei Wei

Optimizing complex systems, ranging from LLM prompts to multi-turn agents, traditionally requires labor-intensive manual iteration. We formalize this challenge as a stochastic generative optimization problem where a generative language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xuanfei Ren , Allen Nie , Tengyang Xie , Ching-An Cheng

Molecular editing and optimization are multi-step problems that require iteratively improving properties while keeping molecules chemically valid and structurally similar. We frame both tasks as sequential, tool-guided decisions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhuo Yang , Yeyun Chen , Jiaqing Xie , Ben Gao , Shuaike Shen , Wanhao Liu , Liujia Yang , Beilun Wang , Tianfan Fu , Yuqiang Li

In recent years, the use of machine learning-based surrogate models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations has emerged as a promising technique for reducing the computational cost associated with engine design optimization.…

Prompt engineering has proven to be a crucial step in leveraging pretrained large language models (LLMs) in solving various real-world tasks. Numerous solutions have been proposed that seek to automate prompt engineering by using the model…

In many global Optimization Problems, it is required to evaluate a global point (min or max) in large space that calculation effort is very high. In this paper is presented new approach for optimization problem with subdivision labeling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Masoumeh Vali

Multi-objective optimization is a common problem in practical applications, and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is considered as one of the effective methods to solve these problems. However, their randomness sometimes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wanyi Liu , Long Chen , Zhenzhou Tang
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