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Hierarchy-Guided Topology Latent Flow for Molecular Graph Generation

Awasthi, Urvi, Lobo, Alexander Arjun, Zhukov, Leonid

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Generating chemically valid 3D molecules is hindered by discrete bond topology: small local bond errors can cause global failures (valence violations, disconnections, implausible rings), especially for drug-like molecules with long-range constraints. Many unconditional 3D generators emphasize coordinates and then infer bonds or rely on post-processing, leaving topology feasibility weakly controlled. We propose Hierarchy-Guided Latent Topology Flow (HLTF), a planner-executor model that generates bond graphs with 3D coordinates, using a latent multi-scale plan for global context and a constraint-aware sampler to suppress topology-driven failures. On QM9, HLTF achieves 98.8% atom stability and 92.9% valid-and-unique, improving PoseBusters validity to 94.0% (+0.9 over the strongest reported baseline). On GEOM-DRUGS, HLTF attains 85.5%/85.0% validity/valid-unique-novel without post-processing and 92.2%/91.2% after standardized relaxation, within 0.9 points of the best post-processed baseline. Explicit topology generation also reduces "false-valid" samples that pass RDKit sanitization but fail stricter checks.








CAnIllustrativeExample WeprovideanillustrativecounterexampleforshowingthattheFS-WBPinEq.(10)isnotanMCF problemwhenm=3andn=3. ExampleC.1. Whenm=3andn=3,theconstraintmatrixis

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When n = 2, the constraint matrixA has E = I2 1>2 and G = 1>2 I2. Now we simplify the matrixAby removing a specific set of redundantrows. Furthermore, the rows of A are categorized into a single set so that the criterion in Proposition 3.2 holds true (thedashed lineintheformulation of Aservesasapartition ofthissingle setintotwosets). We use the proof by contradiction. In particular, assume that problem(10) is a MCF problem whenm 3andn 3,Proposition 3.3 implies that the constraint matrixAisTU.