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:2608. 17381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biomolecular design underpins applications from molecular recognition to therapeutics and synthetic biology, yet de novo interaction design remains challenging-especially for DNA/RNA, underexplored non-protein modalities with scarce, heterogeneous complex data and sharper geometric and chemical constraints.
By Xuefeng Liu, Mingxuan Cao, Xiao Luo, Songhao Jiang, Tobin Sosnick, Jinbo Xu, Louis Maher, Rick Stevens
arXiv:2608. 08958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tree Search-based test-time scaling of LLMs is a powerful tool for automated scientific coding.
By Xuefei Julie Wang, Hao Cui, Michael P. Brenner, Subhashini Venugopalan
arXiv:2505. 20346v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Function-guided protein design is a crucial task with significant applications in drug discovery and enzyme engineering.
By Jiahao Kuang, Nuowei Liu, Jie Wang, Changzhi Sun, Tao Ji, Yuanbin Wu
arXiv:2507. 03209v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The discovery of new ionizable lipids for efficient lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-mediated RNA delivery remains a major bottleneck in RNA therapeutics development.
By Asal Mehradfar, Mohammad Shahab Sepehri, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Glen S. Kwon, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Salman Avestimehr, Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni
arXiv:2603. 19636v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate RNA structure modeling remains difficult because RNA backbones are highly flexible, non-canonical interactions are prevalent, and experimentally determined 3D structures are comparatively scarce.
By Zhou Zhang, Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan, Fang Wu, Pheng Ann Heng, Tianfan Fu
arXiv:2602. 24007v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Protein function relies on dynamic conformational ensembles, yet current generative models like AlphaFold3 often fail to produce ensembles that match experimental data.
By Advaith Maddipatla, Anar Rzayev, Marco Pegoraro, Martin Pacesa, Paul Schanda, Ailie Marx, Sanketh Vedula, Alex M. Bronstein
arXiv:2602. 00549v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) shows promise in Large Language Model (LLM) based Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD), it suffers from a critical over-exploitation tendency under the limited computational budgets required for heuristic evaluation.
By Kezhao Lai, Yutao Lai, Hai-Lin Liu
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
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. 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:2606. 30170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative molecular design is shaped by simple proxy benchmarks for drug-like properties and models pretrained on large pharmaceutical datasets.
By Matthias Blaschke, Daniel Kienzle, Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, Julian Lorenz, Rainer Lienhart, Fabian Pauly