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Date: Wednesday, Oct 14, 2026

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8th Molecular Machine Learning Conference

2026 Accepted Papers

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MOTIFROLE-DIFF: Risk-Optimal Role-Aware Corruption for Masked Molecular Graph Diffusion
Tasfia Nuzhat Ornee, Elias Hossain, Niloofar Yousefi
University of Central Florida
Generative Al for biology
Blitz: Accelerating the Diffusion Module of AlphaFold 3 and Boltz-2
Vinay Saji Mathew, Soundar R. Kumara, William K.M. Lai
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University, University at Buffalo
Generative Al for biology
Automated de novo structure elucidation from NMR spectra with generative models
Ziyu Xiong, Joseph Clark,R obert Heeter,Keith Matanachai, Vanessa Y. Ying,Joon Soo An, Jonathan Z. Huang, Zane Koch, Andrew D. White, Mohammad R. Seyedsayamdost, Ellen D. Zhong
Princeton University, Edison Scientific
Generative Al for biology
Escape Cost as a Target-Selection Criterion for De Novo Epitope-Scaffold Immunogen Design
Celia W. Ayad, Victoria Walker-Sperling, Dan H. Barouch
CVVR, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School
Generative Al for biology
Action Identifiability in Protein-Design Agents
Saanvi Skanda Subramanian, Gabriela Lobinska
California Institute of Technology, AITHYRA
Generative Al for biology
CellVELA: Functional Adaptation of Cell Foundation Models for Cancer Vulnerability Discovery
Jiayi Li, James J. Morrow, and Bradley E. Bernstein
Harvard University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Generative Al for biology
Co-folding model guided by structural proteomics
Alon Shtrikman, Sagie Brodsky, Michal Ran Shchory, Nitzan Simchi, Yaron Ben Shoshan-Galeczki, Eran Seger, Kirill Pevzner
Protai
Generative Al for biology
Continuous Variational Synthesis
Alan Nawzad Amin, Mattia G Gollub, Andrei Slabodkin, Elizabeth Baker Wood, Eli N Weinstein
JURA bio, Denmark Technical University
Generative Al for biology
Latent Diffusion Pretraining for Material Property Prediction
Kishalay Das
Yale University
ML for quantum and materials chemistry
Hamiltonian Normalizing Flows for Equilibrium Sampling of Simple Particle Systems
Adam Tobin-Williams, Holden Lee, David Rogers
MIT, Johns Hopkins University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ML for quantum and materials chemistry
Predicting Adjacent-Lanthanide Selectivity for New Extractants from the Solvent-Extraction Record
Bogdan Mironov, Dias Daulet, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis
Berea College, NIS Nauryzbay, University of Tennessee Knoxville
ML for quantum and materials chemistry
Fermionic Shadow Regression: Amortized Learning of Molecular Electron Dynamics
Aniket Deshpande, Karthik Panicker, Luis Mantilla Calderon, Mohsen Bagherimehrab, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, NVIDIA, CIFAR
ML for quantum and materials chemistry
Gaussian Splatting for Density Functional Theory
Andres Guzman Cordero, Cindy Zhang, Majdi Hassan, Marta Skreta, Matija Medvidovic, Kirill Neklyudov
Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Université de Montréal, Princeton University, Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Université de Montréal, Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Université de Montréal, ETH Zurich, Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Université de Montréal and Instituut Courtois
ML for quantum and materials chemistry
BranchIP: Learning Adaptive Equivariant Computation for Interatomic Potentials
Laura Zichi, Gil Harari, Chuin Wei Tan, Albert Zhu, Marc L. Descoteaux, Menghang Wang, H.T. Kung, Boris Kozinsky
Harvard University, Robert Bosch LLC Research and Technology Center
Modeling molecular interactions
EqFSA: SE(3)-Equivariant Fourier Space Attention
Adithya Rao, Xu Liang
Independent, City University of Hong Kong
Modeling molecular interactions
Fine-tuning Boltz-1 for protein-protein interaction prediction with positive and negative data
Ruqi Liao, Sarah Gurev, Ashley Gin, Yo Akiyama, James Wells, Greta Pintacuda, Sergey Ovchinnikov*, Hilary Finucane*
Broad Institute, MIT, MIT, MIT, UCSF, Broad Institute, MIT, Broad Institute
Modeling molecular interactions
Critical Mass: Structure-Disjoint Splits Stop Measuring Structure as Libraries Grow
Tomo Oga, Devesh Shah, Cailum M. K. Stienstra, Gabriel Asher, Antonio H. de O. Fonseca, Niall O'Connor, Michael Widrich
Northeastern University, Matterworks Inc.
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Toxicity Prediction Tools Do Not Generalize to Novel Chemistry
Circe Hsu, Martin Weiss, and Antonio H. de O. Fonseca
Matterworks, Inc.
Molecular ML for drug discovery
zPocket: Finding Pockets with Frozen Cofolding Features
Tally Portnoi, Allison M. Keys, Benjamin R. DiFrancesco, Nate Gruver
MIT, Genesis Therapeutics
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Calibrated Blood-Brain Barrier Screening with Conformal Prediction: When Mondrian Helps and When It Does Not
Sanjeda Sara Jennifer, Niloofar Yousefi
University of Central Florida
Molecular ML for drug discovery
FragFlex: Fragment-Based Flexible Molecular Generation for Exploring Vast Chemical Space
Sihyun Park, David Ryan Koes
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh
Molecular ML for drug discovery
MolSAGE: Self-evolving Agent Experience for Efficient State-of-the-Art Drug Discovery
Yikun Zhang, Xiwei Cheng, Tianyu Liu, Yuanqi Du, Wengong Jin
Northestern Univerisity, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Yale University, Microsoft Research New England
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Synthesizability-Guided Discrete Diffusion Model for Molecular Generation
Haokun Zhao, Sharvaree Vadgama, Kunhuan Liu, Michael K. Gilson, Rose Yu
UC San Diego
Molecular ML for drug discovery
MIRAGE: Measuring Interpolation and Redundancy in Affinity GEneralization
Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi, Sanjay Padhi, Ivan Garibay
DeepBio Scientific
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Objective Discovery to Model Optimization: From Objective Discovery to Model Optimization:A Self-Evolving Molecular Intelligence Loop
Yikun Zhang, Xiwei Cheng, Tianyu Liu, Yuanqi Du, Wengong Jin
Northeastern University, Broad Institute, Yale University, Microsoft Research New England
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Synthesizability in drug design: towards a unified evaluation framework
Marios Gavrielatos, David R. Koes
University of Pittsburgh
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Retrosynthetic Accessibility as a Guidance for Masked Discrete Diffusion
Haokun Zhao, Sharvaree Vadgama, Kunhuan Liu, Michael K. Gilson, Rose Yu
University of California, San Diego
Molecular ML for drug discovery
Breaking the Memory Barrier for NNP-Molecular Dynamic
Huanyi Qin, Shehtab Zaman, Obadiah Smolenski, Preston Kostiukov, Robin Cramer, Hiten Malhotra, Jayakaran Saravanan Indira, Brian Van Essen , Kenneth Chiu
Binghamton University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Binghamton University, Binghamton University, Binghamton University, Binghamton University, Binghamton University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Binghamton University
Molecular dynamics
Transferable Free-Energy Priors for MLIP-Driven Sampling of CO2 Chemisorption in Isoreticular Covalent-Organic Frameworks
Bogdan Mironov, Artur Lyssenko, Sauradeep Majumdar, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli
Berea College, MIT/Harvard University, MIT, MIT
Molecular dynamics
Rapid Generation of Antibody Conformational Ensembles Using Machine Learning
Pranav V. Rao, David Sommer, Darcy Davidson, Robert G. Alberstein, Jan Ludwiczak, Joseph Kleinhenz, Bodhi Vani, Eliott Park, Jae Hyeon Lee, Saeed Izadi, James R. Kiefer, Richard Bonneau, Sai Pooja Mahajan, Andrew M. Watkins, Frédéric A. Dreyer
Prescient Design, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA; Pharmaceutical Development, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Structural Biology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
Molecular dynamics
From 13 Hours to 4.6: Profiling-Driven Kernel Fusion for TensorNet in Molecular Simulation
Manpreet Singh
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Embedded LLM
Molecular dynamics
Learning DNA origami mechanics in extensional flow from a mechanistic model
Richard B. Huang, Patrick S. Doyle
MIT
Molecular dynamics
Controlled AlphaFold3 Evaluation of QTY-Redesigned Claudin-4 and Claudin-9: Fold Preservation with Reduced Hydrophobicity
David Guo, William Guo
Independent
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
What ipTM Misses: Target-Conditioned Functional Signal in ESM-C’s Internal Representations
Vignesh Karthik, Zuliayeti Abudujielili, Junming Qian, Zhaojun Wang, Carlotta Benthin, Shawn Liu
Columbia University
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Closing the sim2real gap in cryo-EM with a biophysically-grounded density map simulator
Ariana-Dalia Vlad, Ellen D. Zhong
Princeton University
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
spinet: Sheaf Protein Inverse Folding Network
Jens Lundsgaard, Colin Mikulski, Zhixuan Yan, Dhananjay Bhaskar
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Dissecting the limitations of AlphaFold3 confidence metrics for de novo antibody design selection
Minjae Park, Brian Pierce
University of Maryland College Park & University of Maryland Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Hyaline: Kinase-State Prediction Can Learn Taxonomy Instead
Ayman Khaleq, Harry Kabodha, Manju Selvakumaran, Sasha Kakkassery
Northeastern University, Varosync Foundation
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Structure-based antibody renumbering
Diego del Alamo
Takeda
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Electro-Prot: Learning Protein Representations from Electrostatics
Paul Sharoubeem, Sumeet Kothare, Jacky Chen, David R. Koes
University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Sampling Fold-Switching Transitions with ProteinEBM
Gabriel Au, James P. Roney, Sergey Ovchinnikov
MIT
Molecule/Protein 3D structure prediction and processing
Free Energy Estimation on Any State Space
Jiajun He, Zijing Ou, Francisco Vargas, Yingzhen Li, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Yuanqi Du
University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Xaira Therapeutics, Microsoft Research New England
Other
Steering GFlowNets for Drug Discovery: Which Directions Control Molecule Generation
Amirtha Varshini A S, Xinmeng Li, Matthew Parks, Hok Hei Tam
Montai Therapeutics
Other
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