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The increasing penetration of renewable generation introduces uncertainty into power systems, challenging traditional deterministic optimization methods. Chance-constrained optimization offers an approach to balancing cost and risk;…

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Data-driven evolutionary optimization has witnessed great success in solving complex real-world optimization problems. However, existing data-driven optimization algorithms require that all data are centrally stored, which is not always…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jinjin Xu , Yaochu Jin , Wenli Du , Sai Gu

Molecular generation and molecular property prediction are both crucial for drug discovery, but they are often developed independently. Inspired by recent studies, which demonstrate that diffusion model, a prominent generative approach, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shikun Feng , Yuyan Ni , Yan Lu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

In this paper, a new sequential surrogate-based optimization (SSBO) algorithm is developed, which aims to improve the global search ability and local search efficiency for the global optimization of expensive black-box models. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Chunlin Gong , Xu Li , Hua Su , Jinlei Guo , Liangxian Gu

Molecule optimization is a fundamental task for accelerating drug discovery, with the goal of generating new valid molecules that maximize multiple drug properties while maintaining similarity to the input molecule. Existing generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Tianfan Fu , Cao Xiao , Xinhao Li , Lucas M. Glass , Jimeng Sun

Diffusion models suffer from slow sample generation at inference time. Therefore, developing a principled framework for fast deterministic/stochastic sampling for a broader class of diffusion models is a promising direction. We propose two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Kushagra Pandey , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

While generative models have recently become ubiquitous in many scientific areas, less attention has been paid to their evaluation. For molecular generative models, the state-of-the-art examines their output in isolation or in relation to…

The fundamental goal of generative drug design is to propose optimized molecules that meet predefined activity, selectivity, and pharmacokinetic criteria. Despite recent progress, we argue that existing generative methods are limited in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Julien Horwood , Emmanuel Noutahi

Generation of molecules with desired chemical and biological properties such as high drug-likeness, high binding affinity to target proteins, is critical for drug discovery. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic generative model to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-12 Deqian Kong , Bo Pang , Tian Han , Ying Nian Wu

Quantification and minimization of uncertainty is an important task in the design of electromagnetic devices, which comes with high computational effort. We propose a hybrid approach combining the reliability and accuracy of a Monte Carlo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Mona Fuhrländer , Sebastian Schöps

A genetic algorithm is suitable for exploring large search spaces as it finds an approximate solution. Because of this advantage, genetic algorithm is effective in exploring vast and unknown space such as molecular search space. Though the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yurim Lee , Gydam Choi , Minsung Yoon , Cheongwon Kim

Drug discovery aims to find novel compounds with specified chemical property profiles. In terms of generative modeling, the goal is to learn to sample molecules in the intersection of multiple property constraints. This task becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Wengong Jin , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Optimization problems involving mixed variables (i.e., variables of numerical and categorical nature) can be challenging to solve, especially in the presence of mixed-variable constraints. Moreover, when the objective function is the result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Mengjia Zhu , Alberto Bemporad

Bayesian Optimization is a popular tool for tuning algorithms in automatic machine learning (AutoML) systems. Current state-of-the-art methods leverage Random Forests or Gaussian processes to build a surrogate model that predicts algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Jeroen van Hoof , Joaquin Vanschoren

With the recent advances in machine learning for quantum chemistry, it is now possible to predict the chemical properties of compounds and to generate novel molecules. Existing generative models mostly use a string- or graph-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-14 Vitali Nesterov , Mario Wieser , Volker Roth

We develop a stochastic algorithm for independent component analysis that incorporates multi-trial supervision, which is available in many scientific contexts. The method blends a proximal gradient-type algorithm in the space of invertible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ronak Mehta , Mateus Piovezan Otto , Noah Stanis , Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad , Zaid Harchaoui

Decades of progress in simulation-based surrogate-assisted optimization and unprecedented growth in computational power have enabled researchers and practitioners to optimize previously intractable complex engineering problems. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Qi Huang , Roy de Winter , Bas van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

We study sample-efficient molecular optimization under a limited budget of oracle evaluations. We propose MolLIBRA (MultimOdaLity and Language Integrated Bayesian and evolutionaRy optimizAtion), a genetic algorithm based framework that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Masahi Okada , Kazuki Sakai , Hiroaki Yoshida , Masaki Okoshi , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Lead optimization is a pivotal task in the drug design phase within the drug discovery lifecycle. The primary objective is to refine the lead compound to meet specific molecular properties for progression to the subsequent phase of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-22 Siddartha Reddy N , Sai Prakash MV , Varun V , Vishal Vaddina , Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan

The training of molecular models of quantum mechanical properties based on statistical machine learning requires large datasets which exemplify the map from chemical structure to molecular property. Intelligent a priori selection of…