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Generating molecules with desired biological activities has attracted growing attention in drug discovery. Previous molecular generation models are designed as chemocentric methods that hardly consider the drug-target interaction, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Stan Z. Li

Deep generative modeling to stochastically design small molecules is an emerging technology for accelerating drug discovery and development. However, one major issue in molecular generative models is their lower frequency of drug-like…

We present energy-based generative flow networks (EB-GFN), a novel probabilistic modeling algorithm for high-dimensional discrete data. Building upon the theory of generative flow networks (GFlowNets), we model the generation process by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Dinghuai Zhang , Nikolay Malkin , Zhen Liu , Alexandra Volokhova , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

In recent years, deep learning has demonstrated promising results in de novo drug design. However, the proposed techniques still lack an efficient exploration of the large chemical space. Most of these methods explore a small fragment of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-17 Mohamed-Amine Chadi , Hajar Mousannif , Ahmed Aamouche

Molecular circuits capable of autonomous learning could unlock novel applications in fields such as bioengineering and synthetic biology. To this end, existing chemical implementations of neural computing have mainly relied on emulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Rajiv Teja Nagipogu , John H. Reif

Effectively designing molecular geometries is essential to advancing pharmaceutical innovations, a domain, which has experienced great attention through the success of generative models and, in particular, diffusion models. However, current…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-07 Sirine Ayadi , Leon Hetzel , Johanna Sommer , Fabian Theis , Stephan Günnemann

Understanding molecular structure, dynamics, and reactivity requires bridging processes that occur across widely separated time scales. Conventional molecular dynamics simulations provide atomistic resolution, but their femtosecond time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Juan Viguera Diez , Mathias Schreiner , Simon Olsson

Generating molecular graphs is a challenging task due to their discrete nature and the competitive objectives involved. Diffusion models have emerged as SOTA approaches in data generation across various modalities. For molecular graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Prashanth Pombala , Gerrit Grossmann , Verena Wolf

The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…

This paper is about the problem of learning a stochastic policy for generating an object (like a molecular graph) from a sequence of actions, such that the probability of generating an object is proportional to a given positive reward for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Emmanuel Bengio , Moksh Jain , Maksym Korablyov , Doina Precup , Yoshua Bengio

Molecular property prediction and generative design via deep learning models has been the subject of intense research given its potential to accelerate development of new, high-performance materials. More recently, these workflows have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Nathaniel H. Park , Tiffany J. Callahan , James L. Hedrick , Tim Erdmann , Sara Capponi

We develop a symbolic regression framework for extracting the governing mathematical expressions from observed data. The evolutionary approach, faiGP, is designed to leverage the properties of a function algebra that have been encoded into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Shahab Razavi , Eric R. Gamazon

A major challenge in computational chemistry is the generation of novel molecular structures with desirable pharmacological and physiochemical properties. In this work, we investigate the potential use of autoencoder, a deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Thomas Blaschke , Marcus Olivecrona , Ola Engkvist , Jürgen Bajorath , Hongming Chen

What visual information is encoded in individual brain regions, and how do distributed patterns combine to create their neural representations? Prior work has used generative models to replicate known category selectivity in isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haomiao Chen , Keith W Jamison , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

Tackling the most pressing problems for humanity, such as the climate crisis and the threat of global pandemics, requires accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. While science has traditionally relied on trial and error and even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Moksh Jain , Tristan Deleu , Jason Hartford , Cheng-Hao Liu , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Yoshua Bengio

It remains a challenging task to generate a vast variety of novel compounds with desirable pharmacological properties. In this work, a generative network complex (GNC) is proposed as a new platform for designing novel compounds, predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-01 Christopher Grow , Kaifu Gao , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

Typical parametric approaches restrict the exploration of diverse designs by generating variations based on a baseline design. In contrast, generative models provide a solution by leveraging existing designs to create compact yet diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Shahroz Khan , Panagiotis Kaklis , Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been used extensively for addressing problems in drug design and discovery. Both ligand and target molecules are represented as graphs with node and edge features encoding information about atomic elements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Dhananjay Bhaskar , Jackson D. Grady , Michael A. Perlmutter , Smita Krishnaswamy

The challenge of discovering new molecules with desired properties is crucial in domains like drug discovery and material design. Recent advances in deep learning-based generative methods have shown promise but face the issue of sample…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Hyeonah Kim , Minsu Kim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jinkyoo Park

Generative deep learning has become pivotal in molecular design for drug discovery, materials science, and chemical engineering. A widely used paradigm is to pretrain neural networks on string representations of molecules and fine-tune them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jonathan Pirnay , Jan G. Rittig , Alexander B. Wolf , Martin Grohe , Jakob Burger , Alexander Mitsos , Dominik G. Grimm