arXiv:2606. 00555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structure-based drug design increasingly employs LLM agents to iteratively refine ligands against a target pocket, yet a viable ligand must satisfy two often-conflicting objectives -- binding affinity and druggability -- which single optimization steps rarely improve together.
By Zaifei Yang, Weiyu Chen, Yaqing Wang, James Kwok
arXiv:2606. 00008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-objective molecular optimization requires searching vast chemical spaces under conflicting objectives, where early design decisions strongly constrain downstream outcomes.
By Jia Zhang, Tengfei Ma, Tianle Li, Daojian Zeng, Xieping Gao, Xiangxiang Zeng
arXiv:2502. 18966v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: General chemical reaction conditions that achieve consistently high performance across multiple substrates are important for practical applications such as library synthesis and high-throughput experimentation.
By Stefan P. Schmid, Ella Miray Rajaonson, Cher Tian Ser, Mohammad Haddadnia, Shi Xuan Leong, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik, Agustinus Kristiadi, Kjell Jorner, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff
arXiv:2606. 11256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing molecules with target properties is most useful when candidate structures are accompanied by feasible synthetic routes.
By C\'esar Ojeda, Darius A. Faroughy, Maryam Karimi, Payam Zarrintaj, Mir Mehdi Seyedebrahimi, Mart\'in Carballo-Pacheco
arXiv:2509. 26405v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce InVirtuoGen, a discrete flow generative model for fragmented SMILES for de novo and fragment-constrained generation, and target-property/lead optimization of small molecules.
By Benno Kaech, Luis Wyss, Karsten Borgwardt, Gianvito Grasso
arXiv:2606. 19245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) agents promise to accelerate drug discovery by compressing interpretation and decision-making loops, but practical deployment requires trusted evaluation on realistic program decisions.
By Hannah Le, Ramesh Ramasamy, Alex Urrutia, Mahsa Yazdani, Tim Proctor, Kenny Workman
Drug discovery and development is time-consuming and resource-intensive, motivating computational approaches such as diffusion models for de novo drug design. Many such models follow the structure-based drug design (SBDD) paradigm, generating molecules to fit a target binding pocket.
arXiv:2606. 23856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative molecular models for drug design are a promising direction with much active research.
By Konstantin Yatsenko, Arvind Thiagarajan
arXiv:2608. 06961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early-stage molecular design is an iterative process, not just a task of generating molecules.
By Zhu Wang, Jiangyu Chen, Yingjun Shang, Yuhui Yao, Laiao Lu, Tianfan Fu, Na Zou
arXiv:2607. 13155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative molecular models can support early drug discovery by proposing new candidate compounds de novo.
By Daria A. Ryabchenko (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence Center, Moscow, Russia), Pavel Gurevich (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence Center, Moscow, Russia), Shamil Kadyrov (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia), Daria Frolova (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence Center, Moscow, Russia), Kseniia Fedisheva (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia), Sergei A. Nikolenko (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia), Alexander Shapeev (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence Center, Moscow, Russia), Marina A. Pak (Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia)
arXiv:2607. 12488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular optimization in drug discovery, materials design, and catalysis requires searching vast chemical spaces under tight evaluation budgets, since high-fidelity oracles and experimental measurements are costly.
By Sarina Kopf, Cristina Nevado, Philippe Schwaller
arXiv:2510. 24380v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Make-on-demand combinatorial synthesis libraries (CSLs) like Enamine REAL have significantly enabled drug discovery efforts.
By Aryan Pedawi, Jordi Silvestre-Ryan, Bradley Worley, Darren J Hsu, Kushal S Shah, Elias Stehle, Jingrong Zhang, Izhar Wallach