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Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and models derived from them have been successfully used as basic building blocks in deep artificial neural networks for automatic features extraction, unsupervised weights initialization, but also as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu , Phuong H. Nguyen , Madeleine Gibescu , Antonio Liotta

SMILES-based molecular generative models have been pivotal in drug design but face challenges in fragment-constrained tasks. To address this, the Sequential Attachment-based Fragment Embedding (SAFE) representation was recently introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yassir El Mesbahi , Emmanuel Noutahi

We describe a class of growth algorithms for finding low energy states of heteropolymers. These polymers form toy models for proteins, and the hope is that similar methods will ultimately be useful for finding native states of real proteins…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Grassberger

The paper by No\'e et al. [F. No\'e, S. Olsson, J. K\"ohler and H. Wu, Science, 365:6457 (2019)] introduced the concept of Boltzmann Generators (BGs), a deep generative model that can produce unbiased independent samples of many-body…

Understanding the dynamic nature of protein structures is essential for comprehending their biological functions. While significant progress has been made in predicting static folded structures, modeling protein motions on microsecond to…

Reliable machine learning and statistical analysis rely on diverse, well-distributed training data. However, real-world datasets are often limited in size and exhibit underrepresentation across key subpopulations, leading to biased…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen

Inside a cell, heterotypic proteins assemble in inhomogeneous, crowded systems where the abundance of these proteins vary with cell types. While some protein complexes form putative structures that can be visualized with imaging, there are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 Andrei G. Gasic , Atrayee Sarkar , Margaret S. Cheung

Amorphous molecular solids offer a promising alternative to inorganic semiconductors, owing to their mechanical flexibility and solution processability. The packing structure of these materials plays a crucial role in determining their…

Widely used traditional pipelines for subcortical brain segmentation are often inefficient and slow, particularly when processing large datasets. Furthermore, deep learning models face challenges due to the high resolution of MRI images and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Aaron Cao , Zongyu Li , Jordan Jomsky , Andrew F. Laine , Jia Guo

One of the long-expected goals of genome-scale metabolic modeling is to evaluate the influence of the perturbed enzymes to the flux distribution. Both ordinary differential equation (ODE) models and the constraint-based models, like Flux…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-05 Zhengwei Xie , Tianyu Zhang , Qi Ouyang

Complex biological systems have been successfully modeled by biochemical and genetic interaction networks, typically gathered from high-throughput (HTP) data. These networks can be used to infer functional relationships between genes or…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-13 Hyunghoon Cho , Bonnie Berger , Jian Peng

The evolutionary fitness landscape of biological molecules is extremely sparse and heterogeneous, with functional sequences forming isolated dense ``islands'' within a vast combinatorial space of largely non-functional variants. Protein…

Generating novel and functional protein sequences is critical to a wide range of applications in biology. Recent advancements in conditional diffusion models have shown impressive empirical performance in protein generation tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zinan Ling , Yi Shi , Brett McKinney , Da Yan , Yang Zhou , Bo Hui

Efficiently generating statistically independent samples from an unnormalized probability distribution, such as equilibrium samples of many-body systems, is a foundational problem in science. In this paper, we propose Iterated Denoising…

Microorganisms have developed complex regulatory features controlling their reaction and internal adaptation to changing environments. When modeling these organisms we usually do not have full understanding of the regulation and rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Henning Lindhorst , Alexandra-M. Reimers , Steffen Waldherr

Maximum entropy methods, rooted in the inverse Ising/Potts problem from statistical physics, are widely used to model pairwise interactions in complex systems across disciplines such as bioinformatics and neuroscience. While successful,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-14 Aurélien Decelle , Alfonso de Jesús Navas Gómez , Beatriz Seoane

For many macromolecular systems the accurate sampling of the relevant regions on the potential energy surface cannot be obtained by a single, long Molecular Dynamics (MD) trajectory. New approaches are required to promote more efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Vivekanandan Balasubramanian , Iain Bethune , Ardita Shkurti , Elena Breitmoser , Eugen Hruska , Cecilia Clementi , Charles Laughton , Shantenu Jha

Abstract models of system-level behaviour have applications in design exploration, analysis, testing and verification. We describe a new algorithm for automatically extracting useful models, as automata, from execution traces of a HW/SW…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Natasha Yogananda Jeppu , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening , John O'Leary

Combining discrete and continuous data is an important capability for generative models. We present Discrete Flow Models (DFMs), a new flow-based model of discrete data that provides the missing link in enabling flow-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Andrew Campbell , Jason Yim , Regina Barzilay , Tom Rainforth , Tommi Jaakkola

Much scientific enquiry across disciplines is founded upon a mechanistic treatment of dynamic systems that ties form to function. A highly visible instance of this is in molecular biology, where an important goal is to determine…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-17 Xiaojie Guo , Yuanqi Du , Sivani Tadepalli , Liang Zhao , Amarda Shehu