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20232025
most citedUniMAP: Universal SMILES-Graph Representation Learning

3 citations · 18 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.chem-ph2025

Towards A Transferable Acceleration Method for Density Functional Theory

Zhe Liu, Yuyan Ni, Zhichen Pu +3

Recently, sophisticated deep learning-based approaches have been developed for generating efficient initial guesses to accelerate the convergence of density functional theory (DFT)…

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

Beyond Efficiency: Molecular Data Pruning for Enhanced Generalization

Dingshuo Chen, Zhixun Li, Yuyan Ni +6

With the emergence of various molecular tasks and massive datasets, how to perform efficient training has become an urgent yet under-explored issue in the area. Data pruning (DP),…

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.LG2024

Contextual Molecule Representation Learning from Chemical Reaction Knowledge

Han Tang, Shikun Feng, Bicheng Lin +4

In recent years, self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful tool to harness abundant unlabelled data for representation learning and has been broadly adopted in diverse are…

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

UniMAP: Universal SMILES-Graph Representation Learning

Shikun Feng, Lixin Yang, Yanwen Huang +3

Molecular representation learning is fundamental for many drug related applications. Most existing molecular pre-training models are limited in using single molecular modality, eit…

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★ 3 cited

Multimodal Molecular Pretraining via Modality Blending

Qiying Yu, Yudi Zhang, Yuyan Ni +4

Self-supervised learning has recently gained growing interest in molecular modeling for scientific tasks such as AI-assisted drug discovery. Current studies consider leveraging bot…