arXiv AI

Flexible Flows for Biological Sequence Design

arXiv:2606. 10543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing functional biological sequences requires navigating vast discrete spaces under strict evolutionary and biophysical constraints.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

scCBGM: Interpretable Single-Cell Counterfactual Editing

arXiv:2606. 07760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding cellular phenotypes and how they respond to perturbations is critical for disease biology and therapeutic design.

By Alma Andersson, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Edward De Brouwer, Doron Haviv, Tommaso Biancalani, Kyunghyun Cho, Gabriele Scalia, A\"icha BenTaieb, Hector Corrada Bravo
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Variational Learning for Insertion-based Generation

arXiv:2606. 02133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-monotonic sequence generation methods, such as masked diffusion models, provide a flexible alternative to left-to-right autoregressive modeling by allowing tokens to be generated in non-fixed and prescribed orders.

By Yangtian Zhang, Zhe Wang, Arthur Gretton, Rex Ying, David van Dijk, Michalis K. Titsias, Jiaxin Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Insertion Based Sequence Generation with Learnable Order Dynamics

arXiv:2602. 18695v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing insertion-based masked diffusion models that generate sequences by interleaving token insertion with unmasking use fixed schedules that are not dependent on the data.

By Dhruvesh Patel, Benjamin Rozonoyer, Gaurav Pandey, Tahira Naseem, Ram\'on Fernandez Astudillo, Andrew McCallum
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

pCoMole: Pareto-Constrained Molecule Editing with Discrete Flows

pCoMole is a new framework that uses discrete flow matching to guide molecule editing toward user-specified multi-objective preferences while enforcing hard feasibility constraints. It introduces a feasibility-gated terminal distribution with an augmented Tchebycheff utility and implements the preference tilt via a Doob‑h transform, approximated with short Monte Carlo rollouts for efficiency. The method is validated on tasks such as shrinking GFP, shortening Cas9 orthologs, and compressing peptide binders, with wet‑lab tests showing that designed eGFP variants retain fluorescence after extensive edits.

By Tong Chen, Maximilian Holsman, Lin Zhao, Pranam Chatterjee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Synthesizable Molecular Generation via Soft-constrained GFlowNets with Rich Chemical Priors

arXiv:2602. 04119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The application of generative models for experimental drug discovery campaigns is severely limited by the difficulty of designing molecules de novo that can be synthesized in practice.

By Hyeonah Kim, Minsu Kim, Celine Roget, Dionessa Biton, Louis Vaillancourt, Yves V. Brun, Yoshua Bengio, Alex Hernandez-Garcia
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Routing by Reaching: Composition of Pre-trained GFlowNets for Multi-Objective Generation

arXiv:2602. 21565v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample diverse candidates in proportion to a reward function, making them well-suited for scientific discovery, where exploring multiple promising solutions is crucial.

By Seokwon Yoon, Youngbin Choi, Seunghyuk Cho, Seungbeom Lee, MoonJeong Park, Dongwoo Kim