arXiv AI

Towards Generalizing Pretrained All-Atom Representations to Unified Binder Design

PairFuse is a lightweight, parameter‑efficient method that fuses pretrained all‑atom representations into a geometric latent diffusion model for unified binder design. By adding layerwise adapters, it enriches the diffusion model’s molecular block features and incorporates pairwise structural information into the denoiser. Experiments on antibody, peptide, and small‑molecule binder‑design benchmarks show that PairFuse outperforms both the base diffusion model and existing representation‑fusion baselines.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

TorchCraft: Unified binder design by inverting an all-atom structure predictor

TorchCraft is a unified binder‑design framework that optimizes sequence logits using a frozen all‑atom structure predictor. It integrates confidence, contact, geometric, and sequence‑prior objectives within TorchFold to design minibinders, framework‑conditioned VHHs, cyclic peptides, and ligand‑binding proteins. Using pretrained AlphaFold 3 weights, TorchCraft produced experimentally validated binders across four targets without post‑hoc redesign, and computational tests confirmed its applicability to cyclic peptides and ligand‑conditioned pocket design.

By TorchCraft Team, Yu Liu, Zhouhanyu Shen, Zhengyi Li, Xikun Huang, Jiaqi Liu, Shuxian Gao, Qilin Yu, Xiayan Qin, Yucheng Zhang, Mingchen Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Vilya-1: An all-atom foundation model for macrocycle structure prediction and design

arXiv:2607. 09998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Macrocyclic peptides are an increasingly important therapeutic modality, but existing computational methods for modeling their structures and properties are limited in scope and do not generalize well across the synthetically accessible chemical space.

By Vilya Research, :, Pascal Sturmfels, Milad Salem, Naozumi Hiranuma, Stephen Rettie, Xiaoliang Pan, Benjamin D. Sellers, Adam P. Moyer, Patrick J. Salveson, Ivan Anishchanka
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning with Graph Neural Networks, Deep & Cross Networks, and SMILES Embeddings

arXiv:2607. 05736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular property prediction often relies on isolated data modalities, where continuous 3D graph neural networks (GNNs) struggle to efficiently capture long-range topological dependencies and exact macroscopic heuristics.

By Qiwei Han, Chi Zhou, Ruobing Wang, Zheng Ma
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

SinAE: A Single-Architecture Flow-Matching Autoencoder for Cross-Domain Atomic Systems

arXiv:2607. 12380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small molecules, crystals, and proteins all reduce to atoms in 3D space, yet their generative pipelines remain fragmented across domains, each with its Small molecules, crystals, and proteins all reduce to atoms in 3D space, yet their generative pipelines remain fragmented across domains, each with its own graph, equivariant, or frame-based architecture.

By Yuxuan Ren, Fan Yang, Jianhua Yao, Yatao Bian
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Few-step Cofolding with All-Atom Flow Maps

arXiv:2606. 08375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All-atom generative modeling of 3D biomolecular complexes has emerged as the dominant paradigm for predicting the structure of proteins and protein-ligand systems.

By Gianluca Scarpellini, Ron Shprints, Peter Holderrieth, Juno Nam, Pranav Murugan, Rafael G\'omez-Bombarelli, Tommi Jaakola, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Nicholas Matthew Boffi, Avishek Joey Bose
arXiv AI
Oct 2

CODesign: Consistency from Data to Trajectory in All-Atom Protein Binder Co-Design

CODesign is a co-design framework that jointly generates protein sequences and structures to improve consistency between them. It introduces a large consistency‑distilled dataset of about 105,000 dimers and employs a multimodal joint flow model with a consistency‑aware resampling strategy to iteratively refine sequences and side chains. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art in silico success rates for protein‑ and ligand‑target binder design, with ablation studies showing a 70.9% performance boost from the distilled dataset and further gains from the resampling mechanism.

By Yuanle Mo, Bo Qiang, Haitao Lin, Qinghan Wang, Gang Du, Odin Zhang, Pheng Ann Heng
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Mol-JEPA: A multimodal Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Molecules

Mol-JEPA is a scalable multimodal framework that learns molecular world models by using modality masking instead of suboptimal perturbations. It incorporates diverse data such as molecular structures, cellular phenotypes, binding affinities, ADMET profiles, quantum chemistry simulations, and other drug‑discovery information. Benchmarks show that the representations it learns perform strongly, highlighting the benefit of embedding biochemical context via latent‑space prediction.

By Florian Rottach, Sebastian Schieferdecker, William Rudman, Randall Balestriero, Carsten Eickhoff
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

SynLaD: Latent Diffusion for Generating Synthesizable Molecules Conditioned on 3D Pharmacophore Profiles

arXiv:2607. 01105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SynLaD, a latent diffusion framework for small-molecule generation that unifies ligand-based drug design objectives (what to make) with synthetic accessibility (how to make it).

By Miruna Cretu, John Bradshaw, Patricia Suriana, Saeed Saremi, Omar Mahmood, Kirill Shmilovich, Kangway Chuang, Vishnu Sresht, Colin Grambow
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

FuseDiff: Symmetry-Preserving Joint Diffusion for Dual-Target Structure-Based Drug Design

FuseDiff is an end‑to‑end diffusion model designed for dual‑target structure‑based drug design, jointly generating a ligand graph and two pocket‑specific binding poses conditioned on both target pockets. It employs a message‑passing backbone with Dual‑target Local Context Fusion (DLCF) to fuse ligand atom contexts from both pockets, preserving symmetry while enabling expressive joint modeling. The model enforces topological consistency across the two poses and allows target‑specific geometric adaptation, achieving state‑of‑the‑art docking performance and enabling systematic assessment of dual‑target pose quality before docking‑based pose search.

By Jianliang Wu, Anjie Qiao, Zhen Wang, Zhewei Wei, Sheng Chen