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In the field of chemical structure recognition, the task of converting molecular images into machine-readable data formats such as SMILES string stands as a significant challenge, primarily due to the varied drawing styles and conventions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yufan Chen , Ching Ting Leung , Yong Huang , Jianwei Sun , Hao Chen , Hanyu Gao

Artificial Intelligence predicts drug properties by encoding drug molecules, aiding in the rapid screening of candidates. Different molecular representations, such as SMILES and molecule graphs, contain complementary information for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Muzhen Cai , Sendong Zhao , Haochun Wang , Yanrui Du , Zewen Qiang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Language models for molecular design have scaled to hundreds of millions of parameters, yet how they learn chemical grammar is poorly understood. We train SMolLM, a 53K-parameter weight-shared transformer, to generate novel SMILES with 95%…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Akhil Jindal , Harang Ju

The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) across various fields has heightened concerns about their potential to propagate dangerous information. This paper specifically explores the security vulnerabilities of LLMs within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aidan Wong , He Cao , Zijing Liu , Yu Li

Chemical databases store information in text representations, and the SMILES format is a universal standard used in many cheminformatics software. Encoded in each SMILES string is structural information that can be used to predict complex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-16 Garrett B. Goh , Nathan O. Hodas , Charles Siegel , Abhinav Vishnu

SMILES, a crucial textual representation of molecular structures, has garnered significant attention as a foundation for pre-trained language models (LMs). However, most existing pre-trained SMILES LMs focus solely on the single-token level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kangjie Zheng , Siyue Liang , Junwei Yang , Bin Feng , Zequn Liu , Wei Ju , Zhiping Xiao , Ming Zhang

There is more and more evidence that machine learning can be successfully applied in materials science and related fields. However, datasets in these fields are often quite small ($\ll1000$ samples). It makes the most advanced machine…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Guillaume Lambard , Ekaterina Gracheva

Modulation-enhanced localization microscopy (MELM) has demonstrated significant improvements in both lateral and axial localization precision compared to conventional single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM). However, lateral…

Chemical representation learning has gained increasing interest due to the limited availability of supervised data in fields such as drug and materials design. This interest particularly extends to chemical language representation learning,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jun-Hyung Park , Yeachan Kim , Mingyu Lee , Hyuntae Park , SangKeun Lee

Automated computational analysis of the vast chemical space is critical for numerous fields of research such as drug discovery and material science. Representation learning techniques have recently been employed with the primary objective…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-26 Atakan Yüksel , Erva Ulusoy , Atabey Ünlü , Tunca Doğan

Molecular property prediction is an increasingly critical task within drug discovery and development. Typically, neural networks can learn molecular properties using graph-based, language-based or feature-based methods. Recent advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Philip Spence , Brooks Paige , Anne Osbourn

Molecular property prediction has attracted substantial attention recently. Accurate prediction of drug properties relies heavily on effective molecular representations. The structures of chemical compounds are commonly represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anyin Zhao , Zuquan Chen , Zhengyu Fang , Xiaoge Zhang , Jing Li

The detailed analysis of molecular structures and properties holds great potential for drug development discovery through machine learning. Developing an emergent property in the model to understand molecules would broaden the horizons for…

Models based on machine learning can enable accurate and fast molecular property predictions, which is of interest in drug discovery and material design. Various supervised machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jerret Ross , Brian Belgodere , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Inkit Padhi , Youssef Mroueh , Payel Das

Recurrent neural networks have been widely used to generate millions of de novo molecules in a known chemical space. These deep generative models are typically setup with LSTM or GRU units and trained with canonical SMILEs. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ruud van Deursen , Peter Ertl , Igor V. Tetko , Guillaume Godin

Representing molecular structures effectively in chemistry remains a challenging task. Language models and graph-based models are extensively utilized within this domain, consistently achieving state-of-the-art results across an array of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nikolai Rekut , Alexey Orlov , Klea Ziu , Elizaveta Starykh , Martin Takac , Aleksandr Beznosikov

We introduce Group SELFIES, a molecular string representation that leverages group tokens to represent functional groups or entire substructures while maintaining chemical robustness guarantees. Molecular string representations, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Austin Cheng , Andy Cai , Santiago Miret , Gustavo Malkomes , Mariano Phielipp , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We address the task of controlled generation of small molecules, which entails finding novel molecules with desired properties under certain constraints (e.g., similarity to a reference molecule). Here we introduce MolMIM, a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Danny Reidenbach , Micha Livne , Rajesh K. Ilango , Michelle Gill , Johnny Israeli

In molecular structure data, SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings are used to analyze molecular structure design. Numerical feature representation of SMILES strings is a challenging task. This work proposes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Sarwan Ali , Haris Mansoor , Prakash Chourasia , Imdad Ullah Khan , Murray Patterson

Retrosynthesis prediction is fundamental to drug discovery and chemical synthesis, requiring the identification of reactants that can produce a target molecule. Current template-free methods struggle to capture the structural invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiaxi Zhuang , Yu Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Ying Qian