English
Related papers

Related papers: Toward Better Geometric Representations for Molecu…

200 papers

Molecular representation learning has attracted much attention recently. A molecule can be viewed as a 2D graph with nodes/atoms connected by edges/bonds, and can also be represented by a 3D conformation with 3-dimensional coordinates of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

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

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

Previous approaches to generate shapes in a 3D setting train a GAN on the latent space of an autoencoder (AE). Even though this produces convincing results, it has two major shortcomings. As the GAN is limited to reproduce the dataset the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Moritz Ibing , Isaak Lim , Leif Kobbelt

State-of-the-art models for 3D molecular generation are based on significant inductive biases, SE(3), permutation equivariance to respect symmetry and graph message-passing networks to capture local chemistry, yet the generated molecules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Carlos Vonessen , Charles Harris , Miruna Cretu , Pietro Liò

The growing demand for molecules with tailored properties in fields such as drug discovery and chemical engineering has driven advancements in computational methods for molecular design. Machine learning-based approaches for de-novo…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nandan Joshi , Erhan Guven

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated broad utility across molecular domains, spanning drug discovery and materials design. Analyzing LLMs' latent representations is crucial for elucidating their underlying mechanisms, improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhuoran Li , Xu Sun , Wanyu Lin , Jiannong Cao

Recent advances in machine learning have enabled generative models for both optimization and de novo generation of drug candidates with desired properties. Previous generative models have focused on producing SMILES strings or 2D molecular…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-25 Michael Arcidiacono , David Ryan Koes

Utilization of classification latent space information for downstream reconstruction and generation is an intriguing and a relatively unexplored area. In general, discriminative representations are rich in class-specific features but are…

Designing safe and sustainable chemicals is critical to combat chemical pollution in our environment. Machine learning (ML) methods have been developed to aid with de novo molecule design. However, data on the environmental impacts of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Coelina Robinson , Franziska Weissbach , Kjell Jorner , Mennatallah El-Assady , Christina Humer

Three-dimensional geometric data offer an excellent domain for studying representation learning and generative modeling. In this paper, we look at geometric data represented as point clouds. We introduce a deep AutoEncoder (AE) network with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Panos Achlioptas , Olga Diamanti , Ioannis Mitliagkas , Leonidas Guibas

Molecular generation plays an important role in drug discovery and materials science, especially in data-scarce scenarios where traditional generative models often struggle to achieve satisfactory conditional generalization. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zimo Yan , Jie Zhang , Zheng Xie , Chang Liu , Yizhen Liu , Yiping Song

We introduce a new framework for molecular graph generation with 3D molecular generative models. Our Synthetic Coordinate Embedding (SyCo) framework maps molecular graphs to Euclidean point clouds via synthetic conformer coordinates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mohamed Amine Ketata , Nicholas Gao , Johanna Sommer , Tom Wollschläger , Stephan Günnemann

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

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have propelled the development of innovative computational materials modeling and design techniques. Generative deep learning models have been used for molecular representation, discovery, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Navid Shervani-Tabar , Nicholas Zabaras

Key objectives in conditional molecular generation include ensuring chemical validity, aligning generated molecules with target properties, promoting structural diversity, and enabling efficient sampling for discovery. Recent advances in…

Recent advancements in implicit 3D representations and generative models have markedly propelled the field of 3D object generation forward. However, it remains a significant challenge to accurately model geometries with defined sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zeqing Yuan , Haoxuan Lan , Qiang Zou , Junbo Zhao

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanchen Luo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yi Zhao , Sihang Li , Hengxing Cai , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua , Yang Zhang , Xiang Wang

Deep generative models are increasingly becoming integral parts of the in silico molecule design pipeline and have dual goals of learning the chemical and structural features that render candidate molecules viable while also being flexible…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-08 Yair Schiff , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Payel Das

The application of language models (LMs) to molecular structure generation using line notations such as SMILES and SELFIES has been well-established in the field of cheminformatics. However, extending these models to generate 3D molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Kaiyuan Gao , Yusong Wang , Haoxiang Guan , Zun Wang , Qizhi Pei , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He , Lijun Wu