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Designing molecules that bind to specific target proteins is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Recent models leverage geometric constraints to generate ligand molecules that bind cohesively with specific protein pockets. However, these…

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Graph neural networks are emerging as promising methods for modeling molecular graphs, in which nodes and edges correspond to atoms and chemical bonds, respectively. Recent studies show that when 3D molecular geometries, such as bond…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zhao Xu , Youzhi Luo , Xuan Zhang , Xinyi Xu , Yaochen Xie , Meng Liu , Kaleb Dickerson , Cheng Deng , Maho Nakata , Shuiwang Ji

3D molecule generation is crucial for drug discovery and material science, requiring models to process complex multi-modalities, including atom types, chemical bonds, and 3D coordinates. A key challenge is integrating these modalities of…

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A fundamental problem in drug discovery is to design molecules that bind to specific proteins. To tackle this problem using machine learning methods, here we propose a novel and effective framework, known as GraphBP, to generate 3D…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Meng Liu , Youzhi Luo , Kanji Uchino , Koji Maruhashi , Shuiwang Ji

Geometric representation-conditioned molecule generation provides an effective paradigm that decouples molecule representation modeling from structure generation. By decoupling molecule generation into two stages-first generating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shaoheng Yan , Zian Li , Cai Zhou , Qiaojing Huang , Kai Liu , Muhan Zhang

Drug discovery aims at designing novel molecules with specific desired properties for clinical trials. Over past decades, drug discovery and development have been a costly and time consuming process. Driven by big chemical data and AI, deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Karan Yang , Chengxi Zang , Fei Wang

Rich data and powerful machine learning models allow us to design drugs for a specific protein target \textit{in silico}. Recently, the inclusion of 3D structures during targeted drug design shows superior performance to other target-free…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-08 Jiaqi Guan , Wesley Wei Qian , Xingang Peng , Yufeng Su , Jian Peng , Jianzhu Ma

Understanding and predicting the diverse conformational states of molecules is crucial for advancing fields such as chemistry, material science, and drug development. Despite significant progress in generative models, accurately generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhejun Zhang , Yuanping Chen , Shibing Chu

Language Models (LMs) have greatly influenced diverse domains. However, their inherent limitation in comprehending 3D molecular structures has considerably constrained their potential in the biomolecular domain. To bridge this gap, we focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sihang Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Yanchen Luo , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua , Qi Tian

Unlike vision and language data which usually has a unique format, molecules can naturally be characterized using different chemical formulations. One can view a molecule as a 2D graph or define it as a collection of atoms located in a 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Shengjie Luo , Tianlang Chen , Yixian Xu , Shuxin Zheng , Tie-Yan Liu , Liwei Wang , Di He

Ground-state 3D geometries of molecules are essential for many molecular analysis tasks. Modern quantum mechanical methods can compute accurate 3D geometries but are computationally prohibitive. Currently, an efficient alternative to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Zhao Xu , Yaochen Xie , Youzhi Luo , Xuan Zhang , Xinyi Xu , Meng Liu , Kaleb Dickerson , Cheng Deng , Maho Nakata , Shuiwang Ji

Generating chemically valid 3D molecular conformations is critical for computational drug discovery. Classical diffusion-based models like GeoLDM perform well but require hundreds of steps, making large-scale in silico screening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xinyuan Wei , Zian Li , Shaoheng Yan , Cai Zhou , Muhan Zhang

Drug discovery can be viewed as a combinatorial search over an immense chemical space, motivating the development of deep generative models for de novo molecular design. Among these, GPT-based molecular language models (MLM) have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Qianwei Yang , Dong Xu , Zhangfan Yang , Sisi Yuan , Zexuan Zhu , Jianqiang Li , Junkai Ji

Generative models aim to learn the distribution of observed data by generating new instances. With the advent of neural networks, deep generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zifan Shi , Sida Peng , Yinghao Xu , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao , Yujun Shen

Molecular representation pretraining is critical in various applications for drug and material discovery due to the limited number of labeled molecules, and most existing work focuses on pretraining on 2D molecular graphs. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Shengchao Liu , Hongyu Guo , Jian Tang

n this work, we propose a latent molecular diffusion model that can make the generated 3D molecules rich in diversity and maintain rich geometric features. The model captures the information of the forces and local constraints between atoms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Xiang Chen

Molecular graph representation learning is a fundamental problem in modern drug and material discovery. Molecular graphs are typically modeled by their 2D topological structures, but it has been recently discovered that 3D geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Shengchao Liu , Hanchen Wang , Weiyang Liu , Joan Lasenby , Hongyu Guo , Jian Tang

We report a method to convert discrete representations of molecules to and from a multidimensional continuous representation. This model allows us to generate new molecules for efficient exploration and optimization through open-ended…

Molecular representation learning (MRL) is a key step to build the connection between machine learning and chemical science. In particular, it encodes molecules as numerical vectors preserving the molecular structures and features, on top…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-30 Zhichun Guo , Kehan Guo , Bozhao Nan , Yijun Tian , Roshni G. Iyer , Yihong Ma , Olaf Wiest , Xiangliang Zhang , Wei Wang , Chuxu Zhang , Nitesh V. Chawla

Generative models of 3D molecular structure play a rapidly growing role in the design and simulation of molecules. Diffusion models currently dominate the space of 3D molecule generation, while autoregressive models have trailed behind. In…

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