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20222025
most citedSymmetry-Informed Geometric Representation for Molecules, Proteins, and Crystalline Materials

8 citations · 37 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.chem-ph2025

Revisiting Sampling Strategies for Molecular Generation

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Wei-Ying Ma +2

Sampling strategies in diffusion models are critical to molecular generation yet remain relatively underexplored. In this work, we investigate a broad spectrum of sampling methods…

cs.LG2025

Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Haohan Chi +5

Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

UniGEM: A Unified Approach to Generation and Property Prediction for Molecules

Shikun Feng, Yuyan Ni, Yan Lu +3

Molecular generation and molecular property prediction are both crucial for drug discovery, but they are often developed independently. Inspired by recent studies, which demonstrat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Pre-training with Fractional Denoising to Enhance Molecular Property Prediction

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Xin Hong +5

Deep learning methods have been considered promising for accelerating molecular screening in drug discovery and material design. Due to the limited availability of labelled data, v…

q-bio.BM2024

UniCorn: A Unified Contrastive Learning Approach for Multi-view Molecular Representation Learning

Shikun Feng, Yuyan Ni, Minghao Li +4

Recently, a noticeable trend has emerged in developing pre-trained foundation models in the domains of CV and NLP. However, for molecular pre-training, there lacks a universal mode…

q-bio.BM2024★ 2 cited

Rethinking Specificity in SBDD: Leveraging Delta Score and Energy-Guided Diffusion

Bowen Gao, Minsi Ren, Yuyan Ni +5

In the field of Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD), deep learning-based generative models have achieved outstanding performance in terms of docking score. However, further study sh…

cs.IT2023

Elastic Information Bottleneck

Yuyan Ni, Yanyan Lan, Ao Liu +1

Information bottleneck is an information-theoretic principle of representation learning that aims to learn a maximally compressed representation that preserves as much information…

q-bio.BM2023

Sliced Denoising: A Physics-Informed Molecular Pre-Training Method

Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Wei-Ying Ma +2

While molecular pre-training has shown great potential in enhancing drug discovery, the lack of a solid physical interpretation in current methods raises concerns about whether the…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

ProFSA: Self-supervised Pocket Pretraining via Protein Fragment-Surroundings Alignment

Bowen Gao, Yinjun Jia, Yuanle Mo +4

Pocket representations play a vital role in various biomedical applications, such as druggability estimation, ligand affinity prediction, and de novo drug design. While existing ge…

q-bio.QM2023★ 3 cited

Fractional Denoising for 3D Molecular Pre-training

Shikun Feng, Yuyan Ni, Yanyan Lan +2

Coordinate denoising is a promising 3D molecular pre-training method, which has achieved remarkable performance in various downstream drug discovery tasks. Theoretically, the objec…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Symmetry-Informed Geometric Representation for Molecules, Proteins, and Crystalline Materials

Shengchao Liu, Weitao Du, Yanjing Li +10

Artificial intelligence for scientific discovery has recently generated significant interest within the machine learning and scientific communities, particularly in the domains of…

cs.LG2023

Explore and Exploit the Diverse Knowledge in Model Zoo for Domain Generalization

Yimeng Chen, Tianyang Hu, Fengwei Zhou +2

The proliferation of pretrained models, as a result of advancements in pretraining techniques, has led to the emergence of a vast zoo of publicly available models. Effectively util…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

A Group Symmetric Stochastic Differential Equation Model for Molecule Multi-modal Pretraining

Shengchao Liu, Weitao Du, Zhiming Ma +2

Molecule pretraining has quickly become the go-to schema to boost the performance of AI-based drug discovery. Naturally, molecules can be represented as 2D topological graphs or 3D…

q-bio.BM2022★ 7 cited

PEMP: Leveraging Physics Properties to Enhance Molecular Property Prediction

Yuancheng Sun, Yimeng Chen, Weizhi Ma +5

Molecular property prediction is essential for drug discovery. In recent years, deep learning methods have been introduced to this area and achieved state-of-the-art performances.…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

When Does Group Invariant Learning Survive Spurious Correlations?

Yimeng Chen, Ruibin Xiong, Zhiming Ma +1

By inferring latent groups in the training data, recent works introduce invariant learning to the case where environment annotations are unavailable. Typically, learning group inva…