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most citedProtein-ligand binding representation learning from fine-grained interactions

4 citations · 11 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

WMLLM: Self-Evolving Optimization Agents via Predict-Then-Act World Modeling

Zhongzheng Li, Qingsong Ran, Shikun Feng +5

Black-box optimization problems remain challenging because of large, weakly structured, and high-dimensional search spaces. Existing methods often suffer from poor sample efficienc…

cs.AI2026

OPTScientist: Multi-Agent Discovery of Typed Optimizer Programs for Transformer Pretraining

Zhongzheng Li, Tiancan Feng, Wenhao Li +5

Designing optimizers for modern deep learning remains a challenging scientific problem, requiring the joint consideration of optimization geometry, state dynamics, numerical stabil…

cs.CV2026

OneVision-Encoder: Codec-Aligned Sparsity as a Foundational Principle for Multimodal Intelligence

Feilong Tang, Xiang An, Yunyao Yan +16

Hypothesis. Artificial general intelligence is, at its core, a compression problem. Effective compression demands resonance: deep learning scales best when its architecture aligns…

cs.LG2025

MCCE: A Framework for Multi-LLM Collaborative Search in Discrete Spaces with Similarity-Filtered Preference Learning

Nian Ran, Zhongzheng Li, Yue Wang +5

Multi-objective discrete optimization problems, such as molecular design, pose significant challenges due to their vast and unstructured combinatorial spaces. Traditional evolution…

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…

physics.chem-ph2024

MoleculeCLA: Rethinking Molecular Benchmark via Computational Ligand-Target Binding Analysis

Shikun Feng, Jiaxin Zheng, Yinjun Jia +4

Molecular representation learning is pivotal for various molecular property prediction tasks related to drug discovery. Robust and accurate benchmarks are essential for refining an…

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…

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…

q-bio.BM2023★ 4 cited

Protein-ligand binding representation learning from fine-grained interactions

Shikun Feng, Minghao Li, Yinjun Jia +2

The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional comput…

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…