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Chaoran Cheng

14 accepted papers

2026

MutAtlas: A PDB-Wide Energy-Guided Atlas of Protein Mutation Effects

ICML 2026poster

Predicting protein mutation effects is fundamental to protein engineering and disease variant interpretation, yet experimental mutation data remain accurate but extremely sparse. Large-scale computational augmentation offers scalability, but introduces heterogeneous and poorly calibrated supervision…

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2026

h-MINT: Modeling Pocket-Ligand Binding with Hierarchical Molecular Interaction Network

ICLR 2026poster

Accurate molecular representations are critical for drug discovery, and a central challenge lies in capturing the chemical environment of molecular fragments, as key interactions, such as H-bond and π stacking—occur only under specific local conditions. Most existing approaches represent molecules a…

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2025

Adaptive Divergence Regularized Policy Optimization for Fine-tuning Generative Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Balancing exploration and exploitation during reinforcement learning fine-tuning of generative models presents a critical challenge, as existing approaches rely on fixed divergence regularization that creates an inherent dilemma: strong regularization preserves model capabilities but limits reward o…

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2025

Gradient-Free Generation for Hard-Constrained Systems

ICLR 2025poster

Generative models that satisfy hard constraints are critical in many scientific and engineering applications, where physical laws or system requirements must be strictly respected. Many existing constrained generative models, especially those developed for computer vision, rely heavily on gradient i…

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2025

Hotspot-Driven Peptide Design via Multi-Fragment Autoregressive Extension

ICLR 2025poster

Peptides, short chains of amino acids, interact with target proteins, making them a unique class of protein-based therapeutics for treating human diseases. Recently, deep generative models have shown great promise in peptide generation. However, several challenges remain in designing effective pepti…

2025

Online Reward-Weighted Fine-Tuning of Flow Matching with Wasserstein Regularization

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved great success in fine-tuning diffusion-based generative models. However, fine-tuning continuous flow-based generative models to align with arbitrary user-defined reward functions remains challenging, particularly due to issues such as…

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2024

Full-Atom Peptide Design based on Multi-modal Flow Matching

ICML 2024poster

Peptides, short chains of amino acid residues, play a vital role in numerous biological processes by interacting with other target molecules, offering substantial potential in drug discovery. In this work, we present *PepFlow*, the first multi-modal deep generative model grounded in the flow-matchin…

2024

Neural P$^3$M: A Long-Range Interaction Modeling Enhancer for Geometric GNNs

NeurIPS 2024poster

Geometric graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for modeling molecular geometry. However, they encounter limitations in effectively capturing long-range interactions in large molecular systems. To address this challenge, we introduce **Neural P$^3$M**, a versatile enhancer of g…

2022

DisenCite: Graph-Based Disentangled Representation Learning for Context-Specific Citation Generation

AAAI 2022technical

Citing and describing related literature are crucial to scientific writing. Many existing approaches show encouraging performance in citation recommendation, but are unable to accomplish the more challenging and onerous task of citation text generation. In this paper, we propose a novel disentangled…

2022

Equivariant Point Cloud Analysis via Learning Orientations for Message Passing

CVPR 2022oral

Equivariance has been a long-standing concern in various fields ranging from computer vision to physical modeling. Most previous methods struggle with generality, simplicity, and expressiveness --- some are designed ad hoc for specific data types, some are too complex to be accessible, and some sacr…

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