arXiv:2607. 28437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular optimization is commonly performed under a limited oracle budget, which makes deciding what to evaluate as important as deciding what to generate.
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...
The paper introduces Mol-E, an evolutionary algorithm that leverages large language models trained on molecular data to generate candidate molecules. Mol-E achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the Practical Molecular Optimization benchmark, scoring 17.500 in the task‑agnostic regime and 20.551 in the task‑informed regime. It also outperforms baseline methods in multi‑property optimization tasks involving docking against DRD2, MK2, and AChE.
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.
arXiv:2604.07669v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthesizable molecular optimization seeks to improve target properties while ensuring that molecular modifications follow feasible synthetic...
arXiv:2609.00189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-directed optimization is essential for steering molecular generators to propose candidates with desired properties. However, it is often implement...
Oracle-limited molecular optimization gives reward only after a complete molecule is generated, while each rollout requires many local next-token decisions. This delayed-feedback interface makes molecular policy optimization myopic: an optimizer can learn that a molecule was good without knowing which intermediate actions made it good.
arXiv:2607. 00531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific reasoning is an increasingly important capability of large language models, yet improving the robustness and efficiency of training such reasoning remains a key open challenge.
arXiv:2607. 26391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oracle-limited molecular optimization gives reward only after a complete molecule is generated, while each rollout requires many local next-token decisions.
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...
arXiv:2608. 12192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models for protein structure prediction remain unreliable on certain targets.
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.
arXiv:2606. 11256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing molecules with target properties is most useful when candidate structures are accompanied by feasible synthetic routes.