Network Embedding and Generation for Molecular Structures and Reactions

Prof. Liu Di (Michigan State University, USA)
Date & Time
31 Jul 2026 (Fri) | 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Venue

Y5-205 (YEUNG)

 

 

 


ABSTRACT

Deep learning has demonstrated significant success for modeling biochemical molecular systems, where inputs are commonly represented as graphs or 3D grids. A major challenge is that computational cost scales with resolution, making full graph/grid computation of molecular densities expensive and often unstable. We introduce a multigrid training strategy that leverages low-resolution optimization to accelerate learning at higher resolution through parameter transfer across discretizations. For graph molecular representations, we progressively transfer parameters learned from a coarse graph to a sequence of increasingly finer graphs via biased random walk upsampling. For 3D molecular generation, we voxelize the molecular structures at multiple resolutions, pretrain a coarse-resolution conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE), and initialize a fine-resolution CVAE by transferring shape compatible convolutional parameters from the coarse model. Numerical experiments on receptor-conditioned 3D Ligand generation show that multigrid training accelerates convergence and improves generalization compared to training from scratch.

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