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20182026
most citedAccurate and Efficient Structural Ensemble Generation of Macrocyclic Peptides using Internal Coordinate Diffusion

7 citations · 36 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.AI2026

AutoSciBench: Autonomous Benchmark Generation for Evaluating Scientific Agents

Dongki Kim, Namkyeong Lee, Surag Nair +7

As agents rapidly evolve, existing benchmarks can become saturated, limiting their ability to distinguish capabilities and reveal remaining failure modes. Particularly in scientifi…

cs.LG2026

When Riemann flows with Wasserstein: Generative Modeling of Probability Distributions on Manifolds

Doron Haviv, Edward De Brouwer, Rishabh Anand +4

Many scientific datasets, such as molecular conformational ensembles or single-cell tissue measurements, are naturally modeled as meta-distributions: distributions over probability…

q-bio.QM2026

Biology-in-the-loop: Amortized Adaptive Hit Discovery in CRISPR Screens

Carl Edwards, Edward De Brouwer, Xiner Li +5

Many biological discovery problems require experiments to be selected sequentially under constrained budgets. CRISPR screening is a prominent example, as exhaustive perturbation te…

cs.LG2026

LLM-Guided Retrieval for Prediction of Molecular Perturbation Responses

Betty Xiong, Jan-Christian Huetter, Gabriele Scalia +2

Predicting transcriptomic responses to small-molecule perturbations across cell lines is central to drug discovery, but exhaustive profiling of drug-cell combinations is infeasible…

cs.LG2026

scCBGM: Interpretable Single-Cell Counterfactual Editing

Alma Andersson, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Edward De Brouwer +6

Understanding cellular phenotypes and how they respond to perturbations is critical for disease biology and therapeutic design. Single-cell RNA sequencing enables characterization…

cs.LG2026

Generate in Reconstruction Space, Match in Semantic Space: Transport Geometry for One-Step Generation

Hugues Van Assel, Edward De Brouwer, Saeed Saremi +2

Generative modeling and self-supervised representation learning (SSL) optimize structurally different objectives: generative training rewards distributional fidelity, while SSL rew…

cs.LG2026

AssayBench: An Assay-Level Virtual Cell Benchmark for LLMs and Agents

Edward De Brouwer, Carl Edwards, Alexander Wu +9

Recent advances in machine learning and large-scale biological data collections have revived the prospect of building a virtual cell, a computational model of cellular behavior tha…

cs.LG2025

E-valuator: Reliable Agent Verifiers with Sequential Hypothesis Testing

Shuvom Sadhuka, Drew Prinster, Clara Fannjiang +4

Agentic AI systems execute a sequence of actions, such as reasoning steps or tool calls, in response to a user prompt. To evaluate the success of their trajectories, researchers ha…

cs.LG2025

Iterative Distillation for Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models in Biomolecular Design

Xingyu Su, Xiner Li, Masatoshi Uehara +7

We address the problem of fine-tuning diffusion models for reward-guided generation in biomolecular design. While diffusion models have proven highly effective in modeling complex,…

cs.LG2025

Dynamic Search for Inference-Time Alignment in Diffusion Models

Xiner Li, Masatoshi Uehara, Xingyu Su +5

Diffusion models have shown promising generative capabilities across diverse domains, yet aligning their outputs with desired reward functions remains a challenge, particularly in…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

RAG-Enhanced Collaborative LLM Agents for Drug Discovery

Namkyeong Lee, Edward De Brouwer, Ehsan Hajiramezanali +3

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential to accelerate drug discovery. However, the specialized nature of biochemical data often necessitates cost…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Efficient Fine-Tuning of Single-Cell Foundation Models Enables Zero-Shot Molecular Perturbation Prediction

Sepideh Maleki, Jan-Christian Huetter, Kangway V. Chuang +3

Predicting transcriptional responses to novel drugs provides a unique opportunity to accelerate biomedical research and advance drug discovery efforts. However, the inherent comple…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MolCap-Arena: A Comprehensive Captioning Benchmark on Language-Enhanced Molecular Property Prediction

Carl Edwards, Ziqing Lu, Ehsan Hajiramezanali +3

Bridging biomolecular modeling with natural language information, particularly through large language models (LLMs), has recently emerged as a promising interdisciplinary research…

q-bio.GN2024★ 4 cited

A mechanistically interpretable neural network for regulatory genomics

Alex M. Tseng, Gokcen Eraslan, Tommaso Biancalani +1

Deep neural networks excel in mapping genomic DNA sequences to associated readouts (e.g., protein-DNA binding). Beyond prediction, the goal of these networks is to reveal to scient…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Cell Morphology-Guided Small Molecule Generation with GFlowNets

Stephen Zhewen Lu, Ziqing Lu, Ehsan Hajiramezanali +4

High-content phenotypic screening, including high-content imaging (HCI), has gained popularity in the last few years for its ability to characterize novel therapeutics without prio…

cs.LG2024

Derivative-Free Guidance in Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Models with Soft Value-Based Decoding

Xiner Li, Yulai Zhao, Chenyu Wang +8

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Adding Conditional Control to Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning

Yulai Zhao, Masatoshi Uehara, Gabriele Scalia +4

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that allow for precise control over the characteristics of the generated samples. While these diffusion models trained on large data…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Bridging Model-Based Optimization and Generative Modeling via Conservative Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Ehsan Hajiramezanali +5

AI-driven design problems, such as DNA/protein sequence design, are commonly tackled from two angles: generative modeling, which efficiently captures the feasible design space (e.g…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning of Continuous-Time Diffusion Models as Entropy-Regularized Control

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Kevin Black +6

Diffusion models excel at capturing complex data distributions, such as those of natural images and proteins. While diffusion models are trained to represent the distribution in th…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Feedback Efficient Online Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models

Masatoshi Uehara, Yulai Zhao, Kevin Black +6

Diffusion models excel at modeling complex data distributions, including those of images, proteins, and small molecules. However, in many cases, our goal is to model parts of the d…

cs.LG2023

Conformalized Deep Splines for Optimal and Efficient Prediction Sets

Nathaniel Diamant, Ehsan Hajiramezanali, Tommaso Biancalani +1

Uncertainty estimation is critical in high-stakes machine learning applications. One effective way to estimate uncertainty is conformal prediction, which can provide predictive inf…

cs.LG2023

Complex Preferences for Different Convergent Priors in Discrete Graph Diffusion

Alex M. Tseng, Nathaniel Diamant, Tommaso Biancalani +1

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating many different kinds of data, including images, text, and videos. Despite their success, there has been li…

q-bio.BM2023★ 7 cited

Accurate and Efficient Structural Ensemble Generation of Macrocyclic Peptides using Internal Coordinate Diffusion

Colin A. Grambow, Hayley Weir, Nathaniel L. Diamant +3

Macrocyclic peptides are an emerging therapeutic modality, yet computational approaches for accurately sampling their diverse 3D ensembles remain challenging due to their conformat…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

GraphGUIDE: interpretable and controllable conditional graph generation with discrete Bernoulli diffusion

Alex M. Tseng, Nathaniel Diamant, Tommaso Biancalani +1

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in generating realistic objects and have been successfully applied to images, text, and videos. Recent work has shown that dif…