Risk-Sensitive Reward Composition for Conditional GFlowNets

📅 2026-09-01
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论文解决了如何将K个评分整合为一个奖励的问题,通过使用条件风险价值、最坏情况评分规则和模糊半径方法来构建奖励,并用单个条件GFlowNet进行训练。
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Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) for structure-based drug design condition on one rigid protein structure. A flexible target holds several distinct structural shapes, its conformations, each occupied for a fraction of the simulation time. Scoring a candidate against all of them raises an open question: how do K scores become one reward? The designer cannot choose arbitrarily. Populations carry simulation error, and biology dictates which conformations are deal-breakers, so a candidate that fails one is disqualified, not merely ranked lower. No standard rule captures this. We compose the reward from a conditional value-at-risk (CVaR), a worst-case score rule, and an ambiguity radius expressing distrust in the stated weights. Together, these define a family of targets, amortised by a single conditional GFlowNet. We answer whether such a sampler can be trained on fully enumerable synthetic worlds, where every error is exact rather than estimated. Pricing the tail rather than averaging moves 2-10 times more mass to candidates that pass every conformation. One network covers the family to within 0.37-2.7x the error of a perfect sampler. An exact-KL oracle, a copy trained on the true target, shows if a shortfall is the optimiser's or the architecture's. When good candidates are rare, exploration decides: injecting unseen states finds 0.987-1.000 of good regions, while reweighting visited finds 0.35-0.76.
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GFlowNets
drug design
protein structure
conformations
reward composition
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Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR)
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets)
Risk-Sensitive Reward Composition
Structure-Based Drug Design
Exploration in Sampling
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