activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.CE2026

Training Diffusion Language Models for Black-Box Optimization

Zipeng Sun, Can Chen, Ye Yuan +4

We study offline black-box optimization (BBO), aiming to discover improved designs from an offline dataset of designs and labels, a problem common in robotics and DNA with limited…

cs.LG2025

Design Editing for Offline Model-based Optimization

Ye Yuan, Youyuan Zhang, Can Chen +5

Offline model-based optimization (MBO) aims to maximize a black-box objective function using only an offline dataset of designs and scores. These tasks span various domains, such a…

cs.CE2025

TransDiffSBDD: Causality-Aware Multi-Modal Structure-Based Drug Design

Xiuyuan Hu, Guoqing Liu, Can Chen +3

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) is a critical task in drug discovery, requiring the generation of molecular information across two distinct modalities: discrete molecular graphs…

cs.CE2025

ParetoFlow: Guided Flows in Multi-Objective Optimization

Ye Yuan, Can Chen, Christopher Pal +1

In offline multi-objective optimization (MOO), we leverage an offline dataset of designs and their associated labels to simultaneously minimize multiple objectives. This setting mo…

cs.CE2025

3DMolFormer: A Dual-channel Framework for Structure-based Drug Discovery

Xiuyuan Hu, Guoqing Liu, Can Chen +3

Structure-based drug discovery, encompassing the tasks of protein-ligand docking and pocket-aware 3D drug design, represents a core challenge in drug discovery. However, no existin…

cs.LG2024

Robust Guided Diffusion for Offline Black-Box Optimization

Can Sam Chen, Christopher Beckham, Zixuan Liu +2

Offline black-box optimization aims to maximize a black-box function using an offline dataset of designs and their measured properties. Two main approaches have emerged: the forwar…