Selected Publications [Full List]

(* indicates equal contribution.)

Exploring Synthesizable Chemical Space with Iterative Pathway Refinements

Seul Lee, Karsten Kreis, Srimukh Prasad Veccham, Meng Liu, Danny Reidenbach, Saee Paliwal, Weili Nie, and Arash Vahdat

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026(Oral)

Artificial Intelligence for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems

Xuan Zhang*, Limei Wang*, Jacob Helwig*, Youzhi Luo*, Cong Fu*, Yaochen Xie*, Meng Liu, Yuchao Lin, Zhao Xu, Keqiang Yan, Keir Adams, Maurice Weiler, Xiner Li, Tianfan Fu, Yucheng Wang, Alex Strasser, Haiyang Yu, YuQing Xie, Xiang Fu, Shenglong Xu, Yi Liu, Yuanqi Du, Alexandra Saxton, Hongyi Ling, Hannah Lawrence, Hannes Stark, Shurui Gui, Carl Edwards, Nicholas Gao, Adriana Ladera, Tailin Wu, Elyssa F. Hofgard, Aria Mansouri Tehrani, Rui Wang, Ameya Daigavane, Montgomery Bohde, Jerry Kurtin, Qian Huang, Tuong Phung, Minkai Xu, Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Ada Fang, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Erik Bekkers, Michael Bronstein, Marinka Zitnik, Anima Anandkumar, Stefano Ermon, Pietro Lio, Rose Yu, Stephan Gunnemann, Jure Leskovec, Heng Ji, Jimeng Sun, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola, Connor W. Coley, Xiaoning Qian, Xiaofeng Qian, Tess Smidt, Shuiwang Ji

Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning, 2025

GenMol: A Drug Discovery Generalist with Discrete Diffusion

Seul Lee, Karsten Kreis, Srimukh Prasad Veccham, Meng Liu, Danny Reidenbach, Saee Paliwal, Weili Nie, and Arash Vahdat

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

Molecule Generation with Fragment Retrieval Augmentation

Seul Lee, Karsten Kreis, Srimukh Prasad Veccham, Meng Liu, Danny Reidenbach, Saee Paliwal, Arash Vahdat, and Weili Nie

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

DiffBP: Generative Diffusion of 3D Molecules for Target Protein Binding

Haitao Lin*, Yufei Huang*, Odin Zhang*, Siqi Ma, Meng Liu, Xuanjing Li, Lirong Wu, Shuiwang Ji, Tingjun Hou, and Stan Z. Li

Chemical Science, 2024

On the Markov Property of Neural Algorithmic Reasoning: Analyses and Methods

Montgomery Bohde*, Meng Liu*, Alexandra Saxton, and Shuiwang Ji

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024(Spotlight)

Empowering GNNs via Edge-Aware Weisfeiler-Leman Algorithm

Meng Liu, Haiyang Yu, and Shuiwang Ji

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024

Video Timeline Modeling for News Story Understanding

Meng Liu, Mingda Zhang, Jialu Liu, Hanjun Dai, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Shuiwang Ji, Zheyun Feng, and Boqing Gong

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, 2023(Spotlight)

QH9: A Quantum Hamiltonian Prediction Benchmark for QM9 Molecules

Haiyang Yu*, Meng Liu*, Youzhi Luo, Alex Strasser, Xiaofeng Qian†, Xiaoning Qian†, and Shuiwang Ji†

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, 2023

Joint Learning of Label and Environment Causal Independence for Graph Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Shurui Gui, Meng Liu, Xiner Li, Youzhi Luo, and Shuiwang Ji

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

Graph Mixup with Soft Alignments

Hongyi Ling, Zhimeng Jiang, Meng Liu, Shuiwang Ji†, and Na Zou†

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023

Gradient-Guided Importance Sampling for Learning Binary Energy-Based Models

Meng Liu, Haoran Liu, and Shuiwang Ji

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023

Generating 3D Molecules for Target Protein Binding

Meng Liu, Youzhi Luo, Kanji Uchino, Koji Maruhashi, and Shuiwang Ji

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022(Oral, 2.1% acceptance rate)

GraphFM: Improving Large-Scale GNN Training via Feature Momentum

Haiyang Yu*, Limei Wang*, Bokun Wang*, Meng Liu, Tianbao Yang, and Shuiwang Ji

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022

Spherical Message Passing for 3D Molecular Graphs

Yi Liu*, Limei Wang*, Meng Liu, Yuchao Lin, Xuan Zhang, Bora Oztekin, and Shuiwang Ji

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022

Non-Local Graph Neural Networks

Meng Liu*, Zhengyang Wang*, and Shuiwang Ji

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021

DIG: A Turnkey Library for Diving into Graph Deep Learning Research

Meng Liu*, Youzhi Luo*, Limei Wang*, Yaochen Xie*, Hao Yuan*, Shurui Gui*, Haiyang Yu*, Zhao Xu, Jingtun Zhang, Yi Liu, Keqiang Yan, Haoran Liu, Cong Fu, Bora Oztekin, Xuan Zhang, and Shuiwang Ji

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2021

Towards Deeper Graph Neural Networks

Meng Liu, Hongyang Gao, and Shuiwang Ji

ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2020