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Shikun Feng

15 accepted papers

2026

MCCE: A Framework for Multi-LLM Collaborative Search in Discrete Spaces with Similarity-Filtered Preference Learning

ICML 2026poster

Multi-objective discrete optimization problems, such as molecular design, pose significant challenges due to their vast and unstructured combinatorial spaces. Traditional evolutionary algorithms often get trapped in local optima, while expert knowledge can provide crucial guidance for accelerating c…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

FIGRDock: Fast Interaction-Guided Regression for Flexible Docking

NeurIPS 2025poster

Flexible docking, which predicts the binding conformations of both proteins and small molecules by modeling their structural flexibility, plays a vital role in structure-based drug design. Although recent generative approaches, particularly diffusion-based models, have shown promising results, they…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Simplifying Control Mechanism in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

AAAI 2025technical

ControlNet has significantly advanced controllable image generation by integrating dense conditions (such as depth and canny edges) with text-to-image diffusion models. However, ControlNet's integration requires an additional amount nearly equal to half of the base diffusion model's parameters, maki…

2025

Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a novel Straight-Line Diffusion Model (SLDM) to tackle this problem, by formulating the diffusion process to follow a line…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

UniGEM: A Unified Approach to Generation and Property Prediction for Molecules

ICLR 2025poster

Molecular generation and molecular property prediction are both crucial for drug discovery, but they are often developed independently. Inspired by recent studies, which demonstrate that diffusion model, a prominent generative approach, can learn meaningful data representations that enhance predicti…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Multimodal Molecular Pretraining via Modality Blending

ICLR 2024poster

Self-supervised learning has recently gained growing interest in molecular modeling for scientific tasks such as AI-assisted drug discovery. Current studies consider leveraging both 2D and 3D molecular structures for representation learning. However, relying on straightforward alignment strategies t…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2024

Named Entity Driven Zero-Shot Image Manipulation

CVPR 2024poster

We introduced StyleEntity a zero-shot image manipulation model that utilizes named entities as proxies during its training phase. This strategy enables our model to manipulate images using unseen textual descriptions during inference all within a single training phase. Additionally we proposed an in…

2024

Protein-ligand binding representation learning from fine-grained interactions

ICLR 2024poster

The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional computationally intensive methods, but resulting in poor generalization due to limited supervised data. In this paper, we prop…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2024

Sliced Denoising: A Physics-Informed Molecular Pre-Training Method

ICLR 2024poster

While molecular pre-training has shown great potential in enhancing drug discovery, the lack of a solid physical interpretation in current methods raises concerns about whether the learned representation truly captures the underlying explanatory factors in observed data, ultimately resulting in limi…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2024

UniCorn: A Unified Contrastive Learning Approach for Multi-view Molecular Representation Learning

ICML 2024poster

Recently, a noticeable trend has emerged in developing pre-trained foundation models in the domains of CV and NLP. However, for molecular pre-training, there lacks a universal model capable of effectively applying to various categories of molecular tasks, since existing prevalent pre-training method…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

ERNIE-ViLG 2.0: Improving Text-to-Image Diffusion Model With Knowledge-Enhanced Mixture-of-Denoising-Experts

CVPR 2023highlight

Recent progress in diffusion models has revolutionized the popular technology of text-to-image generation. While existing approaches could produce photorealistic high-resolution images with text conditions, there are still several open problems to be solved, which limits the further improvement of i…

Cited by 140SourcePDFScholar
2023

Fractional Denoising for 3D Molecular Pre-training

ICML 2023poster

Coordinate denoising is a promising 3D molecular pre-training method, which has achieved remarkable performance in various downstream drug discovery tasks. Theoretically, the objective is equivalent to learning the force field, which is revealed helpful for downstream tasks. Nevertheless, there are…

2022

ERNIE-Layout: Layout Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Visually-rich Document Understanding

EMNLP 2022finding

Recent years have witnessed the rise and success of pre-training techniques in visually-rich document understanding. However, most existing methods lack the systematic mining and utilization of layout-centered knowledge, leading to sub-optimal performances. In this paper, we propose ERNIE-Layout, a…

2022

Simple and Effective Relation-based Embedding Propagation for Knowledge Representation Learning

IJCAI 2022poster

Relational graph neural networks have garnered particular attention to encode graph context in knowledge graphs (KGs). Although they achieved competitive performance on small KGs, how to efficiently and effectively utilize graph context for large KGs remains an open problem. To this end, we propose…

2021

Masked Label Prediction: Unified Message Passing Model for Semi-Supervised Classification

IJCAI 2021poster

Graph neural network (GNN) and label propagation algorithm (LPA) are both message passing algorithms, which have achieved superior performance in semi-supervised classification. GNN performs feature propagation by a neural network to make predictions, while LPA uses label propagation across graph ad…