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most citedDiffDock: Diffusion Steps, Twists, and Turns for Molecular Docking

361 citations · 619 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.LG2026

Specificity-Aware Diffusion Steering via Variance-Reduced Sequential Monte Carlo

Luran Wang, Linrui Ma, Hannes Stärk +1

Inference-time steering enables pretrained diffusion models to satisfy new constraints without full retraining. However, specificity-aware generation is difficult: repelling sample…

q-bio.BM2025

Protein FID: Improved Evaluation of Protein Structure Generative Models

Felix Faltings, Hannes Stark, Tommi Jaakkola +1

Protein structure generative models have seen a recent surge of interest, but meaningfully evaluating them computationally is an active area of research. While current metrics have…

q-bio.BM2025

ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids

Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Tomas Geffner +4

We develop ProtComposer to generate protein structures conditioned on spatial protein layouts that are specified via a set of 3D ellipsoids capturing substructure shapes and semant…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Think While You Generate: Discrete Diffusion with Planned Denoising

Sulin Liu, Juno Nam, Andrew Campbell +4

Discrete diffusion has achieved state-of-the-art performance, outperforming or approaching autoregressive models on standard benchmarks. In this work, we introduce Discrete Diffusi…

q-bio.BM2024★ 2 cited

Generative Modeling of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories

Bowen Jing, Hannes Stärk, Tommi Jaakkola +1

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-b…

q-bio.BM2024★ 10 cited

Dirichlet Flow Matching with Applications to DNA Sequence Design

Hannes Stark, Bowen Jing, Chenyu Wang +4

Discrete diffusion or flow models could enable faster and more controllable sequence generation than autoregressive models. We show that naïve linear flow matching on the simplex i…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Harmonic Self-Conditioned Flow Matching for Multi-Ligand Docking and Binding Site Design

Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing, Regina Barzilay +1

A significant amount of protein function requires binding small molecules, including enzymatic catalysis. As such, designing binding pockets for small molecules has several impactf…

cs.LG2023★ 16 cited

Artificial Intelligence for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems

Xuan Zhang, Limei Wang, Jacob Helwig +60

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are fueling a new paradigm of discoveries in natural sciences. Today, AI has started to advance natural sciences by improving, accelerating…

q-bio.BM2023★ 29 cited

DiffDock-PP: Rigid Protein-Protein Docking with Diffusion Models

Mohamed Amine Ketata, Cedrik Laue, Ruslan Mammadov +6

Understanding how proteins structurally interact is crucial to modern biology, with applications in drug discovery and protein design. Recent machine learning methods have formulat…

cs.LG2023

Task-Agnostic Graph Neural Network Evaluation via Adversarial Collaboration

Xiangyu Zhao, Hannes Stärk, Dominique Beaini +2

It has been increasingly demanding to develop reliable methods to evaluate the progress of Graph Neural Network (GNN) research for molecular representation learning. Existing GNN b…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Generalized Laplacian Positional Encoding for Graph Representation Learning

Sohir Maskey, Ali Parviz, Maximilian Thiessen +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the primary tool for processing graph-structured data. Unfortunately, the most commonly used GNNs, called Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) s…

q-bio.BM2022★ 361 cited

DiffDock: Diffusion Steps, Twists, and Turns for Molecular Docking

Gabriele Corso, Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing +2

Predicting the binding structure of a small molecule ligand to a protein -- a task known as molecular docking -- is critical to drug design. Recent deep learning methods that treat…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Graph Anisotropic Diffusion

Ahmed A. A. Elhag, Gabriele Corso, Hannes Stärk +1

Traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) rely on message passing, which amounts to permutation-invariant local aggregation of neighbour features. Such a process is isotropic and th…

q-bio.BM2022★ 102 cited

EquiBind: Geometric Deep Learning for Drug Binding Structure Prediction

Hannes Stärk, Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Lagnajit Pattanaik +2

Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applicat…

cs.LG2021★ 85 cited

3D Infomax improves GNNs for Molecular Property Prediction

Hannes Stärk, Dominique Beaini, Gabriele Corso +4

Molecular property prediction is one of the fastest-growing applications of deep learning with critical real-world impacts. Including 3D molecular structure as input to learned mod…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Jointly Learnable Data Augmentations for Self-Supervised GNNs

Zekarias T. Kefato, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Hannes Stärk

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) aims at learning representations of objects without relying on manual labeling. Recently, a number of SSL methods for graph representation learning h…