arXiv:2607. 11555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning neural set functions is pivotal to a wide range of important applications, including compound selection in AI-driven drug discovery and product recommendation.
By Yongquan Shi, Zijing Ou, Shiping Wang, Yatao Bian
arXiv:2606. 26657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying high-utility candidates from massive discrete spaces under expensive evaluations is a recurring challenge across the sciences, with structure-based drug discovery as a prominent example.
By Mohammad Haddadnia, Yuvan Chali, Abhilash Jayaraj, Constance Kraay, Joana Reis, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, Haribabu Arthanari
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:2606. 01220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating molecules that simultaneously satisfy drug-like properties and conform to the 3D structure of a target protein is a core challenge in structure-based drug design (SBDD).
By Guang Lin, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu
arXiv:2506.17007v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: A major bottleneck in scientific discovery consists of narrowing an exponentially large set of objects, such as proteins or molecules, to a small s...
By Marco Jiralerspong, Esther Derman, Danilo Vucetic, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Bilun Sun, Tianyu Zhang, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Gauthier Gidel
arXiv:2607. 23480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAEs) transform high-dimensional, often noisy data into a compact latent representation, making downstream optimization more tractable.
By Ye Shi
arXiv:2602.00663v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Optimizing molecules to achieve desired properties is a central bottleneck across the chemical sciences, particularly in the pharmaceutical industr...
By Fabian P. Kr\"uger, Andrea Hunklinger, Adrian Wolny, Tim J. Adler, Igor Tetko, Santiago David Villalba
arXiv:2606. 18785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying Pareto optimal solutions is critical to support multi-objective decision-making.
By Lennert Saerens, Bram Silue, Eleni Litsa, Peter Vrancx, Pieter Libin
arXiv:2506. 03672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Combinatorial Optimization problems are widespread in domains such as logistics, manufacturing, and drug discovery, yet their NP-hard nature makes them computationally challenging.
By Sobihan Surendran (LPSM), Adeline Fermanian (LPSM), Sylvain Le Corff (LPSM)
arXiv:2608.22967v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Practical molecular inverse design is rarely a one-shot generation problem; it often takes the form of closed-loop candidate-pool enrichment, where und...
By Yaoyao Xu, Xinjian Zhao, Xiaozhuang Song, Lei Bai, Tianshu Yu
The paper introduces Gradient-based Sample Selection Bayesian Optimization (GSSBO), a method that builds the Gaussian process surrogate on a strategically chosen subset of samples rather than the full dataset. By using gradient information to eliminate redundant points while keeping diversity and representativeness, GSSBO achieves sublinear regret bounds and reduces the cubic computational cost of standard BO. Experiments on synthetic and real-world tasks show that this approach maintains comparable optimization performance while significantly cutting GP fitting time and resource usage.
By Qiyu Wei, Haowei Wang, Zirui Cao, Songhao Wang, Richard Allmendinger, Mauricio A \'Alvarez
arXiv:2606. 09664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a central tool for sample-efficient design, and latent-space Bayesian optimization (LSBO) extends it to structured objects such as molecules and proteins.
By Tuan A. Vu, Harri L\"ahdesm\"aki, Julien Martinelli