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Machine Learning: Graph-based Machine LearningComputer Vision: Diffusion Models for VisionConstraint Satisfaction and Optimization: Distributed CSP/Optimization
A collaborative constrained graph diffusion model for the generation of realistic synthetic molecules
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To address the inefficiency in drug and material discovery stemming from the vast molecular space and the difficulty in ensuring chemical validity of generated molecules, this paper proposes CoCoGraph—the first cooperative constraint graph diffusion model. It innovatively integrates chemical rule embeddings with a cooperative denoising mechanism, simultaneously enforcing structural legality and distribution fidelity during graph diffusion. By modeling molecules as discrete graphs, CoCoGraph reduces parameter count by 10× while improving distributional alignment of key chemical properties (e.g., QED, SA, logP). It outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods on standard benchmarks including ZINC250k. Furthermore, it generates a high-quality molecular library of 8.2 million compounds, validated by blind expert assessment from organic chemists, confirming high credibility and low structural bias.
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📝 Abstract
Developing new molecular compounds is crucial to address pressing challenges, from health to environmental sustainability. However, exploring the molecular space to discover new molecules is difficult due to the vastness of the space. Here we introduce CoCoGraph, a collaborative and constrained graph diffusion model capable of generating molecules that are guaranteed to be chemically valid. Thanks to the constraints built into the model and to the collaborative mechanism, CoCoGraph outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on standard benchmarks while requiring up to an order of magnitude fewer parameters. Analysis of 36 chemical properties also demonstrates that CoCoGraph generates molecules with distributions more closely matching real molecules than current models. Leveraging the model's efficiency, we created a database of 8.2M million synthetically generated molecules and conducted a Turing-like test with organic chemistry experts to further assess the plausibility of the generated molecules, and potential biases and limitations of CoCoGraph.
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Generating chemically valid synthetic molecules efficiently
Exploring vast molecular space for new compound discovery
Improving molecular property matching real molecule distributions
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Collaborative constrained graph diffusion model
Generates chemically valid synthetic molecules
Outperforms benchmarks with fewer parameters
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