SynLaD: Latent Diffusion for Generating Synthesizable Molecules Conditioned on 3D Pharmacophore Profiles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01105v1
• Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:57:19 GMT
• Title: SynLaD: Latent Diffusion for Generating Synthesizable Molecules Conditioned on 3D Pharmacophore Profiles
• Abstract summary: We present SynLaD, a latent diffusion framework for small-molecule generation.<n>Current models optimize one objective at the expense of the other, creating a bottleneck for discovering high-scoring and synthesizable molecules.<n>Across analogue generation tasks for bioactive synthesis, SynLaD outperforms existing baselines in synthesizable and diverse hit generation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present SynLaD, a latent diffusion framework for small-molecule generation that unifies ligand-based drug design objectives (what to make) with synthetic accessibility (how to make it). Current models typically optimize one objective at the expense of the other, creating a bottleneck for discovering high-scoring and synthesizable molecules. SynLaD combines reaction-constrained generation with pharmacophore-conditioned 3D design by learning a latent space that decodes to both 3D structures and synthesis pathways. An encoder maps molecules to a latent representation used by two decoder heads: (i) a geometric head that reconstructs atom types and coordinates and (ii) an autoregressive synthesis head that outputs synthetic routes in a serialized, reaction-based notation. A diffusion transformer generates novel latents in the learned space, conditioned on pharmacophore profiles. Across analogue generation tasks for bioactive ligands, SynLaD outperforms existing baselines in synthesizable and diverse hit generation, demonstrating that a single model can produce shape-aligned molecules with feasible synthesis plans.

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