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Molecule optimization is a critical step in drug development to improve desired properties of drug candidates through chemical modification. We developed a novel deep generative model Modof over molecular graphs for molecule optimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Ziqi Chen , Martin Renqiang Min , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

In drug discovery, molecular optimization aims to iteratively refine a lead compound to improve molecular properties while preserving structural similarity to the original molecule. However, each oracle evaluation is expensive, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Ziqing Wang , Yibo Wen , Abhishek Pandy , Han Liu , Kaize Ding

Molecular editing and optimization are multi-step problems that require iteratively improving properties while keeping molecules chemically valid and structurally similar. We frame both tasks as sequential, tool-guided decisions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhuo Yang , Yeyun Chen , Jiaqing Xie , Ben Gao , Shuaike Shen , Wanhao Liu , Liujia Yang , Beilun Wang , Tianfan Fu , Yuqiang Li

Recently, the impressive performance of large language models (LLMs) on a wide range of tasks has attracted an increasing number of attempts to apply LLMs in drug discovery. However, molecule optimization, a critical task in the drug…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-22 Geyan Ye , Xibao Cai , Houtim Lai , Xing Wang , Junhong Huang , Longyue Wang , Wei Liu , Xiangxiang Zeng

Molecular optimization is a key challenge in drug discovery and material science domain, involving the design of molecules with desired properties. Existing methods focus predominantly on single-property optimization, necessitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Aye Phyu Phyu Aung , Jay Chaudhary , Ji Wei Yoon , Senthilnath Jayavelu

We view molecular optimization as a graph-to-graph translation problem. The goal is to learn to map from one molecular graph to another with better properties based on an available corpus of paired molecules. Since molecules can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Wengong Jin , Kevin Yang , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Machine learning methods have been used to accelerate the molecule optimization process. However, efficient search for optimized molecules satisfying several properties with scarce labeled data remains a challenge for machine learning…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-20 Xin Xia , Yansen Su , Chunhou Zheng , Xiangxiang Zeng

The limited availability of annotations in small molecule datasets presents a challenge to machine learning models. To address this, one common strategy is to collaborate with additional auxiliary datasets. However, having more data does…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-10 Tinglin Huang , Ziniu Hu , Rex Ying

Deep learning based molecular graph generation and optimization has recently been attracting attention due to its great potential for de novo drug design. On the one hand, recent models are able to efficiently learn a given graph…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Rémy Brossard , Oriel Frigo , David Dehaene

We present a framework, which we call Molecule Deep $Q$-Networks (MolDQN), for molecule optimization by combining domain knowledge of chemistry and state-of-the-art reinforcement learning techniques (double $Q$-learning and randomized value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Zhenpeng Zhou , Steven Kearnes , Li Li , Richard N. Zare , Patrick Riley

Designing molecules with desirable physiochemical properties and functionalities is a long-standing challenge in chemistry, material science, and drug discovery. Recently, machine learning-based generative models have emerged as promising…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Enhong Chen

Despite deep learning's success in chemistry, its impact is hindered by a lack of interpretability and an inability to resolve activity cliffs, where minor structural nuances trigger drastic property shifts. Current representation learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangsen Chen , Ruilong Wu , Yanyan Lan , Ting Ma , Yang Liu

Machine learning based methods have shown potential for optimizing existing molecules with more desirable properties, a critical step towards accelerating new chemical discovery. Here we propose QMO, a generic query-based molecule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Samuel Hoffman , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Kahini Wadhawan , Pin-Yu Chen , Payel Das

World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenyuan Gao , Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jun Zhang , Chuang Gan

Molecular optimization, which transforms a given input molecule X into another Y with desirable properties, is essential in molecular drug discovery. The traditional translating approaches, generating the molecular graphs from scratch by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Chaojie Ji , Yijia Zheng , Ruxin Wang , Yunpeng Cai , Hongyan Wu

Molecular knowledge resides within three different modalities of information sources: molecular structures, biomedical documents, and knowledge bases. Effective incorporation of molecular knowledge from these modalities holds paramount…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-24 Yizhen Luo , Kai Yang , Massimo Hong , Xing Yi Liu , Zaiqing Nie

Accurate modeling and simulation of mobile networks are essential for enabling intelligent and cost-effective network optimization. In this paper, we propose MobiWorld, a generative world model designed to support high-fidelity and flexible…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haoye Chai , Yuan Yuan , Yong Li

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a widely used technique to simulate molecular systems, most commonly at the all-atom resolution where equations of motion are integrated with timesteps on the order of femtoseconds…

Predicting molecular properties is essential for drug discovery, and computational methods can greatly enhance this process. Molecular graphs have become a focus for representation learning, with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) widely used.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yan Sun , Yutong Lu , Yan Yi Li , Zihao Jing , Carson K. Leung , Pingzhao Hu

Optimizing chemical molecules for desired properties lies at the core of drug development. Despite initial successes made by deep generative models and reinforcement learning methods, these methods were mostly limited by the requirement of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Shuangjia Zheng , Ying Song , Zhang Pan , Chengtao Li , Le Song , Yuedong Yang
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