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Equivariant Diffusion for Molecule Generation in 3D

31 Mar 2022arXiv:2203.17003archive 2025-07-28

Emiel Hoogeboom, Victor Garcia Satorras, Clément Vignac, Max Welling

This work introduces a diffusion model for molecule generation in 3D that is equivariant to Euclidean transformations. Our E(3) Equivariant Diffusion Model (EDM) learns to denoise a diffusion process with an equivariant network that jointly operates on both continuous (atom coordinates) and categorical features (atom types). In addition, we provide a probabilistic analysis which admits likelihood computation of molecules using our model. Experimentally, the proposed method significantly outperforms previous 3D molecular generative methods regarding the quality of generated samples and efficiency at training time.

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Unconditional Molecule Generation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Unconditional Molecule Generation QM9 EDM PoseBusters Internal Energy 94.88 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Unconditional Molecule Generation QM9 EDM Validity 91.90 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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