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most citedLearning to Plan Chemical Syntheses

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cs.LG2025

A Scientific Reasoning Model for Organic Synthesis Procedure Generation

Guoqing Liu, Junren Li, Zihan Zhao +7

Solving computer-aided synthesis planning is essential for enabling fully automated, robot-assisted synthesis workflows and improving the efficiency of drug discovery. A key challe…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

UniGenX: a unified generative foundation model that couples sequence, structure and function to accelerate scientific design across proteins, molecules and materials

Gongbo Zhang, Yanting Li, Renqian Luo +31

Function in natural systems arises from one-dimensional sequences forming three-dimensional structures with specific properties. However, current generative models suffer from crit…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Challenging reaction prediction models to generalize to novel chemistry

John Bradshaw, Anji Zhang, Babak Mahjour +3

Deep learning models for anticipating the products of organic reactions have found many use cases, including validating retrosynthetic pathways and constraining synthesis-based mol…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Chemist-aligned retrosynthesis by ensembling diverse inductive bias models

Krzysztof Maziarz, Guoqing Liu, Hubert Misztela +8

Chemical synthesis remains a critical bottleneck in the discovery and manufacture of functional small molecules. AI-based synthesis planning models could be a potential remedy to f…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

RetroGFN: Diverse and Feasible Retrosynthesis using GFlowNets

Piotr Gaiński, Michał Koziarski, Krzysztof Maziarz +3

Single-step retrosynthesis aims to predict a set of reactions that lead to the creation of a target molecule, which is a crucial task in molecular discovery. Although a target mole…

cs.LG2024★ 12 cited

SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints

Miruna Cretu, Charles Harris, Ilia Igashov +6

Generative models see increasing use in computer-aided drug design. However, while performing well at capturing distributions of molecular motifs, they often produce synthetically…

cs.LG2023★ 37 cited

Re-evaluating Retrosynthesis Algorithms with Syntheseus

Krzysztof Maziarz, Austin Tripp, Guoqing Liu +5

Automated Synthesis Planning has recently re-emerged as a research area at the intersection of chemistry and machine learning. Despite the appearance of steady progress, we argue t…

cs.LG2023

Are VAEs Bad at Reconstructing Molecular Graphs?

Hagen Muenkler, Hubert Misztela, Michal Pikusa +3

Many contemporary generative models of molecules are variational auto-encoders of molecular graphs. One term in their training loss pertains to reconstructing the input, yet recons…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Modern Hopfield Networks for Few- and Zero-Shot Reaction Template Prediction

Philipp Seidl, Philipp Renz, Natalia Dyubankova +6

Finding synthesis routes for molecules of interest is an essential step in the discovery of new drugs and materials. To find such routes, computer-assisted synthesis planning (CASP…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Barking up the right tree: an approach to search over molecule synthesis DAGs

John Bradshaw, Brooks Paige, Matt J. Kusner +2

When designing new molecules with particular properties, it is not only important what to make but crucially how to make it. These instructions form a synthesis directed acyclic gr…

cs.LG2020★ 118 cited

Molecular representation learning with language models and domain-relevant auxiliary tasks

Benedek Fabian, Thomas Edlich, Héléna Gaspar +4

We apply a Transformer architecture, specifically BERT, to learn flexible and high quality molecular representations for drug discovery problems. We study the impact of using diffe…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

RetroGNN: Approximating Retrosynthesis by Graph Neural Networks for De Novo Drug Design

Cheng-Hao Liu, Maksym Korablyov, Stanisław Jastrzębski +3

De novo molecule generation often results in chemically unfeasible molecules. A natural idea to mitigate this problem is to bias the search process towards more easily synthesizabl…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

World Programs for Model-Based Learning and Planning in Compositional State and Action Spaces

Marwin H. S. Segler

Some of the most important tasks take place in environments which lack cheap and perfect simulators, thus hampering the application of model-free reinforcement learning (RL). While…

cs.LG2019★ 21 cited

A Model to Search for Synthesizable Molecules

John Bradshaw, Brooks Paige, Matt J. Kusner +2

Deep generative models are able to suggest new organic molecules by generating strings, trees, and graphs representing their structure. While such models allow one to generate mole…

cs.LG2018★ 53 cited

DEFactor: Differentiable Edge Factorization-based Probabilistic Graph Generation

Rim Assouel, Mohamed Ahmed, Marwin H Segler +2

Generating novel molecules with optimal properties is a crucial step in many industries such as drug discovery. Recently, deep generative models have shown a promising way of perfo…