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Most earlier 3D structure-based molecular generation approaches follow an atom-wise paradigm, incrementally adding atoms to a partially built molecular fragment within protein pockets. These methods, while effective in designing tightly…

Molecular Representation Learning is essential to solving many drug discovery and computational chemistry problems. It is a challenging problem due to the complex structure of molecules and the vast chemical space. Graph representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Atia Hamidizadeh , Tony Shen , Martin Ester

Designing molecules with specific properties is a long-lasting research problem and is central to advancing crucial domains such as drug discovery and material science. Recent advances in deep graph generative models treat molecule design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuanqi Du , Xiaojie Guo , Amarda Shehu , Liang Zhao

Molecular dynamics (MD) has long been the de facto choice for simulating complex atomistic systems from first principles. Recently deep learning models become a popular way to accelerate MD. Notwithstanding, existing models depend on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fang Wu , Stan Z. Li

We study a fundamental problem in computational chemistry known as molecular conformation generation, trying to predict stable 3D structures from 2D molecular graphs. Existing machine learning approaches usually first predict distances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Chence Shi , Shitong Luo , Minkai Xu , Jian Tang

AI models for drug discovery and chemical literature mining must interpret molecular images and generate outputs consistent with 3D geometry and stereochemistry. Most molecular language models rely on strings or graphs, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jing Lan , Hexiao Ding , Hongzhao Chen , Yufeng Jiang , Nga-Chun Ng , Gwing Kei Yip , Gerald W. Y. Cheng , Yunlin Mao , Jing Cai , Liang-ting Lin , Jung Sun Yoo

Molecular conformation generation aims to generate three-dimensional coordinates of all the atoms in a molecule and is an important task in bioinformatics and pharmacology. Previous methods usually first predict the interatomic distances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Chang Liu , Lijun Wu , Shufang Xie , Yusong Wang , Tong Wang , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Haiguang Liu , Tie-Yan Liu

Implicit fields have recently shown increasing success in representing and learning 3D shapes accurately. Signed distance fields and occupancy fields are decades old and still the preferred representations, both with well-studied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Edoardo Mello Rella , Ajad Chhatkuli , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

Multimodal molecular representation learning, which jointly models molecular graphs and their textual descriptions, enhances predictive accuracy and interpretability by enabling more robust and reliable predictions of drug toxicity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingxu Wang , Kunyu Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Nan Yin , Siwei Liu , Eran Segal

Molecule generation is a challenging open problem in cheminformatics. Currently, deep generative approaches addressing the challenge belong to two broad categories, differing in how molecules are represented. One approach encodes molecular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-02 Marco Podda , Davide Bacciu , Alessio Micheli

Denoising diffusion models have shown great potential in multiple research areas. Existing diffusion-based generative methods on de novo 3D molecule generation face two major challenges. Since majority heavy atoms in molecules allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Can Xu , Haosen Wang , Weigang Wang , Pengfei Zheng , Hongyang Chen

We introduce a new graph diffusion model for small molecule generation, DMol, which outperforms the state-of-the-art DiGress model in terms of validity by roughly 1.5% across all benchmarking datasets while reducing the number of diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Peizhi Niu , Yu-Hsiang Wang , Vishal Rana , Chetan Rupakheti , Abhishek Pandey , Olgica Milenkovic

A generative model capable of sampling realistic molecules with desired properties could accelerate chemical discovery across a wide range of applications. Toward this goal, significant effort has focused on developing models that jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ian Dunn , David R. Koes

Learning representations of molecular structures using deep learning is a fundamental problem in molecular property prediction tasks. Molecules inherently exist in the real world as three-dimensional structures; furthermore, they are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Daiki Koge , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya

Deep generative models have shown significant promise in generating valid 3D molecular structures, with the GEOM-Drugs dataset serving as a key benchmark. However, current evaluation protocols suffer from critical flaws, including incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Filipp Nikitin , Ian Dunn , David Ryan Koes , Olexandr Isayev

Deep generative models have been applied with increasing success to the generation of two dimensional molecules as SMILES strings and molecular graphs. In this work we describe for the first time a deep generative model that can generate 3D…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Tomohide Masuda , Matthew Ragoza , David Ryan Koes

Designing new molecules is essential for drug discovery and material science. Recently, deep generative models that aim to model molecule distribution have made promising progress in narrowing down the chemical research space and generating…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-06 Han Huang , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Weifeng Lv

Diffusion models have shown great promise for image generation, beating GANs in terms of generation diversity, with comparable image quality. However, their application to 3D shapes has been limited to point or voxel representations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Gimin Nam , Mariem Khlifi , Andrew Rodriguez , Alberto Tono , Linqi Zhou , Paul Guerrero

De novo 3D molecule generation is a pivotal task in drug discovery. However, many recent geometric generative models struggle to produce high-quality 3D structures, even if they maintain 2D validity and topological stability. To tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Danny Reidenbach , Filipp Nikitin , Olexandr Isayev , Saee Paliwal