arXiv Machine Learning By Tong Chen, Maximilian Holsman, Lin Zhao, Pranam Chatterjee

pCoMole: Pareto-Constrained Molecule Editing with Discrete Flows

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pCoMole is a new framework that uses discrete flow matching to guide molecule editing toward user-specified multi-objective preferences while enforcing hard feasibility constraints. It introduces a feasibility-gated terminal distribution with an augmented Tchebycheff utility and implements the preference tilt via a Doob‑h transform, approximated with short Monte Carlo rollouts for efficiency. The method is validated on tasks such as shrinking GFP, shortening Cas9 orthologs, and compressing peptide binders, with wet‑lab tests showing that designed eGFP variants retain fluorescence after extensive edits.

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Probe Before You Edit: Probing-Guided Molecular Optimization for LLM Agents in Structure-Based Drug Design

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