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Main Authors: Zhang, Zhejun, Chen, Yuanping, Chu, Shibing
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07077
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author Zhang, Zhejun
Chen, Yuanping
Chu, Shibing
author_facet Zhang, Zhejun
Chen, Yuanping
Chu, Shibing
contents Understanding and predicting the diverse conformational states of molecules is crucial for advancing fields such as chemistry, material science, and drug development. Despite significant progress in generative models, accurately generating complex and biologically or material-relevant molecular structures remains a major challenge. In this work, we introduce a diffusion model for three-dimensional (3D) molecule generation that combines a classifiable diffusion model, Diffusion Transformer, with multihead equivariant self-attention. This method addresses two key challenges: correctly attaching hydrogen atoms in generated molecules through learning representations of molecules after hydrogen atoms are removed; and overcoming the limitations of existing models that cannot generate molecules across multiple classes simultaneously. The experimental results demonstrate that our model not only achieves state-of-the-art performance across several key metrics but also exhibits robustness and versatility, making it highly suitable for early-stage large-scale generation processes in molecular design, followed by validation and further screening to obtain molecules with specific properties.
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spellingShingle D3MES: Diffusion Transformer with multihead equivariant self-attention for 3D molecule generation
Zhang, Zhejun
Chen, Yuanping
Chu, Shibing
Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
Understanding and predicting the diverse conformational states of molecules is crucial for advancing fields such as chemistry, material science, and drug development. Despite significant progress in generative models, accurately generating complex and biologically or material-relevant molecular structures remains a major challenge. In this work, we introduce a diffusion model for three-dimensional (3D) molecule generation that combines a classifiable diffusion model, Diffusion Transformer, with multihead equivariant self-attention. This method addresses two key challenges: correctly attaching hydrogen atoms in generated molecules through learning representations of molecules after hydrogen atoms are removed; and overcoming the limitations of existing models that cannot generate molecules across multiple classes simultaneously. The experimental results demonstrate that our model not only achieves state-of-the-art performance across several key metrics but also exhibits robustness and versatility, making it highly suitable for early-stage large-scale generation processes in molecular design, followed by validation and further screening to obtain molecules with specific properties.
title D3MES: Diffusion Transformer with multihead equivariant self-attention for 3D molecule generation
topic Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07077