Aaron Havens
aaronjhavens.bsky.social
Aaron Havens
@aaronjhavens.bsky.social
PhD student at UIUC looking at control theory and generative modeling. previously intern at FAIR NY and Preferred Networks Tokyo.
Our evaluation offers a new, challenging, *amortized* sampling benchmark for molecular conformer generation.

The benchmark features real, drug-like molecules from the SPICE dataset, and we hope it drives direct and tangible progress in sampling for computational chemistry (coming soon).
May 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We specialize Adjoint Matching—originally designed for reward fine-tuning—to the sampling setting.

By exploiting a factorization of the optimal transition density (a Schrödinger bridge), our new loss enables heavy reuse of simulations and energy evaluations.
May 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
New paper out with FAIR(+FAIR-Chemistry):

Adjoint Sampling: Highly Scalable Diffusion Samplers via Adjoint Matching

We present a scalable method for learning to sample *conditionally* from unnormalized densities beyond classical force fields.

📄: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11713
May 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This lets us train conditional diffusion samplers directly from expensive energy functions, namely, state-of-art molecular foundation models, amortizing sampling across thousands of molecules—unlike traditional samplers, which require heavy energy access per new molecule structure, per sample.
May 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We specialize Adjoint Matching—originally designed for reward fine-tuning—to the sampling setting.

By exploiting a factorization of the optimal transition density (a Schrödinger bridge), our new loss enables heavy reuse of simulations and energy evaluations.
May 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM