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20172026
most citedJunction Tree Variational Autoencoder for Molecular Graph Generation

828 citations · 1.7k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

q-bio.BM2026

Where Should Physics Enter a Molecular Crystal Generator?

Haocheng Tang, Junmei Wang, Wengong Jin

Generative models make molecular crystal structure prediction fast, but their samples still exhibit geometric and packing violations. Physics can be introduced during training, pos…

cs.AI2026

From Surfaces to Volumes: Registered Geometry for Protein Representation Learning

Siyuan Chen, Cai Zhou, Jinrui Zhang +8

Existing protein geometry models typically represent molecular surfaces using local geometric features such as sampled points, normals, and curvature. While effective for capturing…

q-bio.BM2023★ 4 cited

Unsupervised Protein-Ligand Binding Energy Prediction via Neural Euler's Rotation Equation

Wengong Jin, Siranush Sarkizova, Xun Chen +2

Protein-ligand binding prediction is a fundamental problem in AI-driven drug discovery. Prior work focused on supervised learning methods using a large set of binding affinity data…

q-bio.BM2022★ 12 cited

Antibody-Antigen Docking and Design via Hierarchical Equivariant Refinement

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Computational antibody design seeks to automatically create an antibody that binds to an antigen. The binding affinity is governed by the 3D binding interface where antibody residu…

q-bio.BM2021★ 66 cited

Iterative Refinement Graph Neural Network for Antibody Sequence-Structure Co-design

Wengong Jin, Jeremy Wohlwend, Regina Barzilay +1

Antibodies are versatile proteins that bind to pathogens like viruses and stimulate the adaptive immune system. The specificity of antibody binding is determined by complementarity…

q-bio.BM2020★ 3 cited

Discovering Synergistic Drug Combinations for COVID with Biological Bottleneck Models

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Drug combinations play an important role in therapeutics due to its better efficacy and reduced toxicity. Recent approaches have applied machine learning to identify synergistic co…

q-bio.BM2020★ 6 cited

Improved Conditional Flow Models for Molecule to Image Synthesis

Karren Yang, Samuel Goldman, Wengong Jin +4

In this paper, we aim to synthesize cell microscopy images under different molecular interventions, motivated by practical applications to drug development. Building on the recent…

cs.LG2020★ 8 cited

Enforcing Predictive Invariance across Structured Biomedical Domains

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Many biochemical applications such as molecular property prediction require models to generalize beyond their training domains (environments). Moreover, natural environments in the…

q-bio.QM2020★ 4 cited

Adaptive Invariance for Molecule Property Prediction

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Effective property prediction methods can help accelerate the search for COVID-19 antivirals either through accurate in-silico screens or by effectively guiding on-going at-scale e…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Improving Molecular Design by Stochastic Iterative Target Augmentation

Kevin Yang, Wengong Jin, Kyle Swanson +2

Generative models in molecular design tend to be richly parameterized, data-hungry neural models, as they must create complex structured objects as outputs. Estimating such models…

cs.LG2020★ 98 cited

Multi-Objective Molecule Generation using Interpretable Substructures

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Drug discovery aims to find novel compounds with specified chemical property profiles. In terms of generative modeling, the goal is to learn to sample molecules in the intersection…

cs.LG2020★ 110 cited

Hierarchical Generation of Molecular Graphs using Structural Motifs

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

Graph generation techniques are increasingly being adopted for drug discovery. Previous graph generation approaches have utilized relatively small molecular building blocks such as…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 28 cited

Hierarchical Graph-to-Graph Translation for Molecules

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

The problem of accelerating drug discovery relies heavily on automatic tools to optimize precursor molecules to afford them with better biochemical properties. Our work in this pap…

cs.LG2019★ 202 cited

Analyzing Learned Molecular Representations for Property Prediction

Kevin Yang, Kyle Swanson, Wengong Jin +12

Advancements in neural machinery have led to a wide range of algorithmic solutions for molecular property prediction. Two classes of models in particular have yielded promising res…

cs.LG2019★ 4 cited

Functional Transparency for Structured Data: a Game-Theoretic Approach

Guang-He Lee, Wengong Jin, David Alvarez-Melis +1

We provide a new approach to training neural models to exhibit transparency in a well-defined, functional manner. Our approach naturally operates over structured data and tailors t…

cs.LG2019★ 154 cited

Learning Multimodal Graph-to-Graph Translation for Molecular Optimization

Wengong Jin, Kevin Yang, Regina Barzilay +1

We view molecular optimization as a graph-to-graph translation problem. The goal is to learn to map from one molecular graph to another with better properties based on an available…

cs.LG2018★ 828 cited

Junction Tree Variational Autoencoder for Molecular Graph Generation

Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola

We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. In computational terms, this task involves continuous embedding and generation of molecular graph…

cs.LG2017★ 191 cited

Predicting Organic Reaction Outcomes with Weisfeiler-Lehman Network

Wengong Jin, Connor W. Coley, Regina Barzilay +1

The prediction of organic reaction outcomes is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry. Since a reaction may involve hundreds of atoms, fully exploring the space of possib…

cs.NE2017★ 22 cited

Deriving Neural Architectures from Sequence and Graph Kernels

Tao Lei, Wengong Jin, Regina Barzilay +1

The design of neural architectures for structured objects is typically guided by experimental insights rather than a formal process. In this work, we appeal to kernels over combina…