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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Enhancing Unconditional Molecule Generation via Online Knowledge Distillation of Scaffolds.

Huibin Wang, Zehui Wang, Minghua Shi, Zixian Cheng, Ying Qian

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Huibin WangShanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.ORCID 0009-0002-5440-5102
Zehui WangShanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Minghua ShiShanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Zixian ChengShanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
Ying QianShanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4961-5842

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generating new drug-like molecules is an essential aspect of drug discovery, and deep learning models significantly accelerate this process. Language models have demonstrated great potential in generating novel and realistic SMILES representations of molecules. Molecular scaffolds, which serve as the key structural foundation, can facilitate language models in discovering chemically feasible and biologically relevant molecules. However, directly using scaffolds as prior inputs can introduce bias, thereby limiting the exploration of novel molecules. To combine the above advantages and address the limitation, we incorporate molecular scaffold information into language models via an

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language modelonline knowledge distillationscaffold-based molecule generationunconditional molecule generation

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PMID40142038
PMCPMC11945111

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