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ConfRetro: a 3D-aware template-free method for enhancing retrosynthesis via molecular conformer information

arXiv:2501. 12434v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motivation: Retrosynthesis plays a crucial role in organic synthesis and drug discovery, focusing on identifying a set of reactants capable of synthesizing a target product molecule.

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
Aug 12

Order Matters in Retrosynthesis: Structure-aware Generation via Reaction-Center-Guided Discrete Flow Matching

arXiv:2602. 13136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Template-free retrosynthesis methods treat the task as black-box sequence generation, limiting learning efficiency, while semi-template approaches rely on rigid reaction libraries that constrain generalization.

By Chenguang Wang, Zihan Zhou, Lei Bai, Tianshu Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

WEECFP-SuRGE: A Position-Aware Substructure Encoding Method for Molecular Property Prediction

WEECFP-SuRGE introduces a position‑aware substructure encoding method that combines tokenized hierarchical Morgan fingerprints with graph‑distance‑dependent rotations applied at the input and within transformer self‑attention. The approach captures local chemistry, long‑range interactions, and molecular topology without requiring external pretraining or 3‑D conformer generation. Benchmarks on MoleculeNet and the Therapeutic Data Commons ADMET datasets show competitive performance, and a reconstruction procedure correctly identifies constitutional isomers for 92.6% of a 4,200‑molecule library.

By Robert Epps
arXiv AI
Sep 7

NEAT-POCKET: Pocket-Conditioned Autoregressive 3D Molecular Generation with a Neighborhood-Guided Set Transformer

NEAT-POCKET is a pocket‑conditioned extension of the autoregressive NEAT model that generates 3D molecules atom by atom within protein binding pockets, maintaining atom permutation invariance and explicitly modeling hydrogen atoms. It outperforms existing baselines on the CrossDocked and SPINDR datasets, achieving competitive structure‑based generation performance while sampling significantly faster. The model also supports pocket‑conditioned fragment completion, a capability directly useful for lead optimization and scaffold elaboration in drug design.

By Roxane Axel Jacob, Daniel Rose, Thierry Langer, Johannes Kirchmair
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 8

Fixed-Dimensional Latent Flow for Generating Variable-Size 3D Molecules

The paper introduces Equivariant-Free Transformer-Autoencoded Latent Flow Matching (EF‑TALFM), a two‑stage generative framework that uses a single fixed‑dimensional latent vector to produce variable‑size 3D molecules. The first stage samples the latent vector via flow matching, and the second stage employs an autoregressive Transformer decoder that determines molecule size while generating atom types, coordinates, and chemical states. EF‑TALFM outperforms prior methods on the PCQM4Mv2 benchmark, achieving higher uniqueness, novelty, and computational throughput, and its internal ranking improves the hit rate for target HOMO–LUMO gaps while maintaining novelty.