activity
20232026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

Training Large Language Models for Small-Molecule Design with Synthetic Task Scaling

Frank Hu, Shriram Chennakesavalu, Zichen Wang +5

Designing viable drug candidates requires searching a combinatorially large and rugged chemical space for molecules that satisfy multiple, often competing, objectives. Large langua…

cs.LG2026

Frontier LLMs are effective batch optimizers: Assessing reasoning models in continuous and discrete settings

Frank Hu, Shriram Chennakesavalu, David Graff

Frontier large language models (LLMs) have become attractive priors for optimization due to their large-scale pretraining that enables them to navigate a variety of optimization se…

cs.LG2026

Evaluating the Progression of Large Language Model Capabilities for Small-Molecule Drug Design

Shriram Chennakesavalu, Kirill Shmilovich, Hayley Weir +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate small molecule drug design due to their ability to reason about information from diverse sources and formats. However,…

physics.chem-ph2026

Scaling Transferable Coarse-graining with Mean Force Matching

Abigail Park, Shriram Chennakesavalu, Grant M. Rotskoff

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics often sacrifices accuracy and transferability for computational efficiency, but the use of machine learned potentials is helping coarse-grained mo…

cs.LG2024

Aligning Transformers with Continuous Feedback via Energy Rank Alignment

Shriram Chennakesavalu, Frank Hu, Sebastian Ibarraran +1

Searching through chemical space is an exceptionally challenging problem because the number of possible molecules grows combinatorially with the number of atoms. Large, autoregress…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Data-efficient generation of protein conformational ensembles with backbone-to-side chain transformers

Shriram Chennakesavalu, Grant M. Rotskoff

Excitement at the prospect of using data-driven generative models to sample configurational ensembles of biomolecular systems stems from the extraordinary success of these models o…