arXiv Machine Learning July 31, 2026 By Jiannan Yang, Veronika Thost, Xiang Ling, Tengfei Ma

Oracle-Budgeted Molecular Optimization with Short-Term Graph Memory

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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.

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