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John Bradshaw

7 accepted papers

2026

SynLaD: Latent Diffusion for Generating Synthesizable Molecules Conditioned on 3D Pharmacophore Profiles

ICML 2026poster

We present SynLaD, a latent diffusion framework for small-molecule generation that unifies 3D design objectives (what to make) with synthetic accessibility (how to make it). Current models typically optimize one objective at the expense of the other, creating a bottleneck for discovering high-scorin…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Prefix-Tree Decoding for Predicting Mass Spectra from Molecules

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Computational predictions of mass spectra from molecules have enabled the discovery of clinically relevant metabolites. However, such predictive tools are still limited as they occupy one of two extremes, either operating (a) by fragmenting molecules combinatorially with overly rigid constraints on…

2022

Local Latent Space Bayesian Optimization over Structured Inputs

NeurIPS 2022accept

Bayesian optimization over the latent spaces of deep autoencoder models (DAEs) has recently emerged as a promising new approach for optimizing challenging black-box functions over structured, discrete, hard-to-enumerate search spaces (e.g., molecules). Here the DAE dramatically simplifies the search…

2020

Barking up the right tree: an approach to search over molecule synthesis DAGs

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

When designing new molecules with particular properties, it is not only important what to make but crucially how to make it. These instructions form a synthesis directed acyclic graph (DAG), describing how a large vocabulary of simple building blocks can be recursively combined through chemical reac…

2019

A Generative Model For Electron Paths

ICLR 2019poster

Chemical reactions can be described as the stepwise redistribution of electrons in molecules. As such, reactions are often depicted using "arrow-pushing" diagrams which show this movement as a sequence of arrows. We propose an electron path prediction model (ELECTRO) to learn these sequences directl…

Cited by 90SourcePDFScholar
2019

A Model to Search for Synthesizable Molecules

NeurIPS 2019poster

Deep generative models are able to suggest new organic molecules by generating strings, trees, and graphs representing their structure. While such models allow one to generate molecules with desirable properties, they give no guarantees that the molecules can actually be synthesized in practice. We…