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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, particularly in scientific domains that demand specialized and dynamic information. Despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xianrui Zhong , Bowen Jin , Siru Ouyang , Yanzhen Shen , Qiao Jin , Yin Fang , Zhiyong Lu , Jiawei Han

The ability to reason beyond established knowledge allows Organic Chemists to solve synthetic problems and to invent novel transformations. Here, we propose a model which mimics chemical reasoning and formalises reaction prediction as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Marwin H. S. Segler , Mark P. Waller

While inorganic retrosynthesis planning is essential in the field of chemical science, the application of machine learning in this area has been notably less explored compared to organic retrosynthesis planning. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Heewoong Noh , Namkyeong Lee , Gyoung S. Na , Chanyoung Park

The main target of retrosynthesis is to recursively decompose desired molecules into available building blocks. Existing template-based retrosynthesis methods follow a template selection stereotype and suffer from limited training…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Chaochao Yan , Peilin Zhao , Chan Lu , Yang Yu , Junzhou Huang

Retrosynthesis is a procedure where a target molecule is transformed into potential reactants and thus the synthesis routes can be identified. Recently, computational approaches have been developed to accelerate the design of synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ziqi Chen , Oluwatosin R. Ayinde , James R. Fuchs , Huan Sun , Xia Ning

Retrosynthetic planning, which aims to find a reaction pathway to synthesize a target molecule, plays an important role in chemistry and drug discovery. This task is usually modeled as a search problem. Recently, data-driven methods have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Shufang Xie , Rui Yan , Peng Han , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Chenjuan Guo , Bin Yang , Tao Qin

Existing deep learning models applied to reaction prediction in organic chemistry can reach high levels of accuracy (> 90% for Natural Language Processing-based ones). With no chemical knowledge embedded than the information learnt from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Alessandra Toniato , Philippe Schwaller , Antonio Cardinale , Joppe Geluykens , Teodoro Laino

Various template-based and template-free approaches have been proposed for single-step retrosynthesis prediction in recent years. While these approaches demonstrate strong performance from a data-driven metrics standpoint, many model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Kevin Zhang , Vipul Mann , Venkat Venkatasubramanian

While machine learning has enabled the rapid prediction of inorganic materials with novel properties, the challenge of determining how to synthesize these materials remains largely unsolved. Previous work has largely focused on predicting…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Samuel Andrello , Daniel Alabi , Simon J. L. Billinge

Retrosynthesis is a problem to infer reactant compounds to synthesize a given product compound through chemical reactions. Recent studies on retrosynthesis focus on proposing more sophisticated prediction models, but the dataset to feed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Kazuya Ujihara , Ryohto Sawada , Hirotaka Akita , Masaaki Kotera

A fundamental problem in computational chemistry is to find a set of reactants to synthesize a target molecule, a.k.a. retrosynthesis prediction. Existing state-of-the-art methods rely on matching the target molecule with a large set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chence Shi , Minkai Xu , Hongyu Guo , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

The reaction center consists of atoms in the product whose local properties are not identical to the corresponding atoms in the reactants. Prior studies on reaction center identification are mainly on semi-templated retrosynthesis methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zixun Lan , Zuo Zeng , Binjie Hong , Zhenfu Liu , Fei Ma

Organic synthesis stands as a cornerstone of the chemical industry. The development of robust machine learning models to support tasks associated with organic reactions is of significant interest. However, current methods rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Kaipeng Zeng , Xianbin Liu , Yu Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu

Computer-assisted methods have emerged as valuable tools for retrosynthesis analysis. However, quantifying the plausibility of generated retrosynthesis routes remains a challenging task. We introduce Retro-BLEU, a statistical metric adapted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Junren Li , Lei Fang , Jian-Guang Lou

Retrosynthesis reaction prediction aims to infer plausible reactant molecules for a given product and is a important problem in computer-aided organic synthesis. Despite recent progress, many existing models still fall short of the accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Youjun Zhao

Retrosynthesis is a major task for drug discovery. It is formulated as a graph-generating problem by many existing approaches. Specifically, these methods firstly identify the reaction center, and break target molecule accordingly to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Jiahan Liu , Chaochao Yan , Yang Yu , Chan Lu , Junzhou Huang , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

Motivation: The design of enzymes is as challenging as it is consequential for making chemical synthesis in medical and industrial applications more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly. While several aspects of this…

Coarse-graining offers a means to extend the achievable time and length scales of molecular dynamics simulations beyond what is practically possible in the atomistic regime. Sampling molecular configurations of interest can be done…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Kirill Shmilovich , Marc Stieffenhofer , Nicholas E. Charron , Moritz Hoffmann

Retrosynthesis, which aims to identify viable synthetic pathways for target molecules by decomposing them into simpler precursors, is often treated as a search problem. However, its complexity arises from multi-branched tree-structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chengyang Tian , Yuhang Chang , Yangpeng Zhang , Yang Liu

In this paper, a new non-search based synthesis algorithm for reversible circuits is proposed. Compared with the widely used search-based methods, our algorithm is guarantied to produce a result and can lead to a solution with much fewer…

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