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Date: Wednesday, Oct 14, 2026




8th Molecular Machine Learning Conference
2026 Accepted Papers
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# (TBA) | Paper Title | Comma separated list of author names | Comma separated list of author affiliations* | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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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