arXiv Machine Learning

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.

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
Jun 25

Why Pool When You Can Flow? Active Learning with GFlowNets

arXiv:2509. 00704v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The scalability of pool-based active learning is limited by the computational cost of evaluating large unlabeled datasets, a challenge that is particularly acute in virtual screening for drug discovery.

By Renfei Zhang, Mohit Pandey, Artem Cherkasov, Martin Ester
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

GEqTrain: A Configuration-Driven Framework for Retargeting Equivariant Graph Neural Networks Across 3D Scientific Tasks

arXiv:2607. 19083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equivariant graph neural networks provide a powerful modeling language for three-dimensional scientific data, but their reuse is often limited by implementations tied to specific tasks, outputs, and training regimes.

By Daniele Angioletti, Marco Nobile, Vittorio Limongelli
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6

Stable GFlowNets with TV Monitoring and Probabilistic Guarantees

arXiv:2605. 01729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample states proportional to an unnormalized reward.

By Zengxiang Lei, Ananth Shreekumar, Jonathan Rosenthal, Ruoyu Song, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Daniel J. Fremont, Dongyan Xu, Satish Ukkusuri, Z. Berkay Celik
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Trajectory balance: Improved credit assignment in GFlowNets

The paper introduces a new learning objective called trajectory balance for Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), aiming to improve credit assignment across long action sequences. It demonstrates that minimizing this objective yields a policy that samples exactly from the target distribution. Experiments on four domains show that trajectory balance enhances convergence, sample diversity, and robustness to long sequences and large action spaces.

By Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Moksh Jain, Emmanuel Bengio, Chen Sun, Yoshua Bengio
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

NAE: Normalizing AutoEncoder

arXiv:2608. 12084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the setting of Normalizing flows with approximate inverses, an established paradigm spanning both full-dimensional ($d=D$) and bottleneck ($d<D$) settings, and group these models under the term flow autoencoders.

By Muhammad Abdur Rafae, Niels Landwehr