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- A physics-first account of molecular representation, electronic structure, forces, statistical mechanics, and dynamics for molecular machine learning.
- How periodic representations support crystal prediction and generation—and why relaxation, first-principles validation, and synthesis remain decisive.
- Why deeper graph networks face under-reaching, over-smoothing, and over-squashing—and how topology determines which remedy helps.
- A unified derivation of diffusion and flow matching through conditional probability paths, marginalization identities, and simulation-free regression.
- How continuous-time Markov chains transport categorical probability, how their rates become learnable, and how generator matching extends across modalities.
- How invariant attention scores, equivariant values, and energy-based force prediction turn geometric Transformers into practical interatomic potentials.
- How canonicalization, local frames, frame averaging, and probabilistic symmetrization create geometric models—and why continuity is difficult.
- Molecular graph generation and reaction modeling viewed as constrained structured prediction, from representation and symmetry to synthesis-aware evaluation.
- Protein design as sequence–structure–function inference, from inverse folding and backbone diffusion to computational filters and experimental evidence.
- From genomic sequence models and noisy single-cell measurements to perturbation prediction and the stronger requirements of a virtual cell.
- Flow matching beyond Euclidean space, from tangent velocity fields and geodesic conditional paths to product manifolds for molecular geometry.
- Why permutation symmetry leads to message passing, how familiar GNNs instantiate it, and why graph Transformers still need structure.
- Why drug discovery is a sequence of linked inference problems—from target validation and molecular binding to exposure, safety, and clinical benefit.
- Where machine learning enters electronic-structure theory, from neural wavefunctions and learned functionals to Hamiltonians and energy surfaces.
- A material is more than a formula: discovery must connect periodic structure, competing phases, target properties, processing, and experimental formation.
- How molecular representations, conformers, data splits, pretraining, and uncertainty determine what a property-prediction benchmark actually measures.
- How learned energy surfaces become molecular dynamics, why rollout stability differs from static accuracy, and how to validate observables.
- How ODEs and SDEs transport probability, why scores appear in reverse-time diffusion, and how probability-flow ODEs match SDE marginals.
- How metastable protein conformations become equilibrium ensembles and kinetic models, and what learned samplers must preserve beyond structural plausibility.
- How sequence, alignments, residue graphs, backbone frames, surfaces, and multimodal objectives shape what protein embeddings can support.
- How coevolutionary constraints, pairwise geometric reasoning, residue frames, and all-atom diffusion shaped AlphaFold—and where structure prediction stops.
- How geometric graph networks move from invariant distances and angles to equivariant coordinates and vector channels—and what directionality buys.
- How irreducible rotation types, spherical harmonics, and Clebsch–Gordan tensor products create expressive equivariant neural-network layers.
- A concrete account of group actions, invariance, equivariance, and feature types for geometric machine learning.
- How generative models respect molecular geometry, how guidance turns sampling into design, and why oracle scores must survive experiment.
- Two derivations of graph convolution—from Laplacian spectral filters and permutation-equivariant linear maps—and what each reveals and hides.
- Graph neural network expressivity through multiset aggregation, the Weisfeiler--Leman test, its blind spots, and the cost of stronger models.