Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow
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| author | Cao, Zhonglin Geiger, Mario Costa, Allan dos Santos Reidenbach, Danny Kreis, Karsten Geffner, Tomas Pellegrini, Franco Zhou, Guoqing Kucukbenli, Emine |
| author_facet | Cao, Zhonglin Geiger, Mario Costa, Allan dos Santos Reidenbach, Danny Kreis, Karsten Geffner, Tomas Pellegrini, Franco Zhou, Guoqing Kucukbenli, Emine |
| contents | Fast and accurate generation of molecular conformers is desired for downstream computational chemistry and drug discovery tasks. Currently, training and sampling state-of-the-art diffusion or flow-based models for conformer generation require significant computational resources. In this work, we build upon flow-matching and propose two mechanisms for accelerating training and inference of generative models for 3D molecular conformer generation. For fast training, we introduce the SO(3)-Averaged Flow training objective, which leads to faster convergence to better generation quality compared to conditional optimal transport flow or Kabsch-aligned flow. We demonstrate that models trained using SO(3)-Averaged Flow can reach state-of-the-art conformer generation quality. For fast inference, we show that the reflow and distillation methods of flow-based models enable few-steps or even one-step molecular conformer generation with high quality. The training techniques proposed in this work show a path towards highly efficient molecular conformer generation with flow-based models. |
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| spellingShingle | Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow Cao, Zhonglin Geiger, Mario Costa, Allan dos Santos Reidenbach, Danny Kreis, Karsten Geffner, Tomas Pellegrini, Franco Zhou, Guoqing Kucukbenli, Emine Machine Learning Chemical Physics Fast and accurate generation of molecular conformers is desired for downstream computational chemistry and drug discovery tasks. Currently, training and sampling state-of-the-art diffusion or flow-based models for conformer generation require significant computational resources. In this work, we build upon flow-matching and propose two mechanisms for accelerating training and inference of generative models for 3D molecular conformer generation. For fast training, we introduce the SO(3)-Averaged Flow training objective, which leads to faster convergence to better generation quality compared to conditional optimal transport flow or Kabsch-aligned flow. We demonstrate that models trained using SO(3)-Averaged Flow can reach state-of-the-art conformer generation quality. For fast inference, we show that the reflow and distillation methods of flow-based models enable few-steps or even one-step molecular conformer generation with high quality. The training techniques proposed in this work show a path towards highly efficient molecular conformer generation with flow-based models. |
| title | Efficient Molecular Conformer Generation with SO(3)-Averaged Flow Matching and Reflow |
| topic | Machine Learning Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09785 |