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Graph neural networks have recently achieved great successes in predicting quantum mechanical properties of molecules. These models represent a molecule as a graph using only the distance between atoms (nodes). They do not, however, consider the spatial direction from one atom to another, despite directional information playing a central role in empirical potentials for molecules, e.g. in angular potentials. To alleviate this limitation we propose directional message passing, in which we embed the messages passed between atoms instead of the atoms themselves. Each message is associated with a direction in coordinate space. These directional message embeddings are rotationally equivariant since the associated directions rotate with the molecule. We propose a message passing scheme analogous to belief propagation, which uses the directional information by transforming messages based on the angle between them. Additionally, we use spherical Bessel functions and spherical harmonics to construct theoretically well-founded, orthogonal representations that achieve better performance than the currently prevalent Gaussian radial basis representations while using fewer than 1/4 of the parameters. We leverage these innovations to construct the directional message passing neural network (DimeNet). DimeNet outperforms previous GNNs on average by 76% on MD17 and by 31% on QM9. Our implementation is available online.

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Learning Dynamic Stability Landscapes in Synchronization Networks

cs.LG · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Introduces graph-to-image prediction of per-node dynamic stability landscapes in oscillator networks from topology, releases two 10k-graph datasets, and shows GNN-CNN models achieve good accuracy with cross-size generalization.

Composition-Weighted Symbolic Regression for General-Purpose Property Prediction

cond-mat.mtrl-sci · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A composition-weighted symbolic regression framework learns analytical expressions and elemental weightings from composition to predict materials properties with accuracy competitive to black-box models while producing explicit, constraint-enforcing formulas.

SurfDesign: Effective Protein Design on Molecular Surfaces

q-bio.BM · 2026-05-25 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

SurfDesign introduces surface-conditioned protein design via manifold modeling and equivariant message passing on surfaces integrated with pretrained language models, outperforming prior methods on binder and enzyme design benchmarks.

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