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Diffusion models have demonstrated empirical successes in various applications and can be adapted to task-specific needs via guidance. This paper studies a form of gradient guidance for adapting a pre-trained diffusion model towards…

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Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models for molecular design, capable of capturing complex structural distributions and achieving high fidelity in 3D molecule generation. However, their widespread use remains…

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Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision with critical applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Multimodal MOT that integrates visible light and thermal infrared information is particularly essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Weiran Li , Yeqiang Liu , Yijie Wei , Mina Han , Qiannan Guo , Zhenbo Li

We introduce SteeringDiffusion, a bottlenecked activation-level control interface for diffusion models that exposes a smooth, monotonic, and runtime-adjustable control surface over the content--style trade-off. Our method keeps the U-Net…

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Without knowledge of specific pockets, generating ligands based on the global structure of a protein target plays a crucial role in drug discovery as it helps reduce the search space for potential drug-like candidates in the pipeline.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-02 Nhat Khang Ngo , Truong Son Hy

Generative models have achieved success in producing semantically plausible 2D images, but it remains challenging in 3D generation due to the absence of spatial geometry constraints. Typically, existing methods utilize geometric features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan

The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Axel Levy , Eric R. Chan , Sara Fridovich-Keil , Frédéric Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong , Gordon Wetzstein

Diffusion-based visuomotor policies effectively capture multimodal action distributions through iterative denoising, but their high inference latency limits real-time robotic control. Recent flow matching and consistency-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chongyang Xu , Yixian Zou , Ziliang Feng , Fanman Meng , Shuaicheng Liu

Inverse protein folding, the process of designing sequences that fold into a specific 3D structure, is crucial in bio-engineering and drug discovery. Traditional methods rely on experimentally resolved structures, but these cover only a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Igor Melnyk , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan

Diffusion models typically generate data through a fixed denoising trajectory that is shared across all samples. However, generation targets can differ in complexity, suggesting that a single pre-defined diffusion process may not be optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yucheng Xing , Xiaodong Liu , Xin Wang

Reinforcement learning fine-tuning has proven effective for steering generative diffusion models toward desired properties in image and molecular domains. Graph diffusion models have similarly been applied to combinatorial structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Aleksei Liuliakov , Luca Hermes , Barbara Hammer

Generating novel active molecules for a given protein is an extremely challenging task for generative models that requires an understanding of the complex physical interactions between the molecule and its environment. In this paper, we…

Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery. Yet, despite recent advances in deep learning, existing models cannot generate molecules that satisfy all desired physicochemical properties. Herein, we describe IDOLpro, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Amit Kadan , Kevin Ryczko , Erika Lloyd , Adrian Roitberg , Takeshi Yamazaki

Generative models have the potential to accelerate key steps in the discovery of novel molecular therapeutics and materials. Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful approach, excelling at unconditional sample generation and,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-17 Leo Klarner , Tim G. J. Rudner , Garrett M. Morris , Charlotte M. Deane , Yee Whye Teh

AI-assisted protein design has emerged as a critical tool for advancing biotechnology, as deep generative models have demonstrated their reliability in this domain. However, most existing models primarily utilize protein sequence or…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Changjian Zhou , Yuexi Qiu , Jia Song

We study Diffusion Schr\"odinger Bridge (DSB) models in the context of dynamical astrophysical systems, specifically tackling observational inverse prediction tasks within Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) for star formation. We introduce the…

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We present Dream-Coder 7B, an open-source discrete diffusion language model for code generation that exhibits emergent any-order generation capabilities. Unlike traditional autoregressive (AR) models that decode strictly left-to-right,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhihui Xie , Jiacheng Ye , Lin Zheng , Jiahui Gao , Jingwei Dong , Zirui Wu , Xueliang Zhao , Shansan Gong , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Lingpeng Kong

Understanding how proteins structurally interact is crucial to modern biology, with applications in drug discovery and protein design. Recent machine learning methods have formulated protein-small molecule docking as a generative problem…

The identification of novel drug-target (DT) interactions is a substantial part of the drug discovery process. Most of the computational methods that have been proposed to predict DT interactions have focused on binary classification, where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-06 Hakime Öztürk , Elif Ozkirimli , Arzucan Özgür

Diffusion models excel at generation, but their latent spaces are high dimensional and not explicitly organized for interpretation or control. We introduce ConDA (Contrastive Diffusion Alignment), a plug-and-play geometry layer that applies…