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Retrosynthesis is the process of determining the set of reactant molecules that can react to form a desired product. Semi-template-based retrosynthesis methods, which imitate the reverse logic of synthesis reactions, first predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Frazier N. Baker , Ziqi Chen , Daniel Adu-Ampratwum , Xia Ning

Predictive materials synthesis is the primary bottleneck in realizing new functional and quantum materials. Strategies for synthesis of promising materials are currently identified by time-consuming trial and error approaches and there are…

Retrosynthesis -- the process of identifying a set of reactants to synthesize a target molecule -- is of vital importance to material design and drug discovery. Existing machine learning approaches based on language models and graph neural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ruoxi Sun , Hanjun Dai , Li Li , Steven Kearnes , Bo Dai

Retrosynthetic planning is a critical task in organic chemistry which identifies a series of reactions that can lead to the synthesis of a target product. The vast number of possible chemical transformations makes the size of the search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Binghong Chen , Chengtao Li , Hanjun Dai , Le Song

In silico tools are important for generating novel hypotheses and exploring alternatives in de novo metabolic pathway design. However, while many computational frameworks have been proposed for retrobiosynthesis, few successful examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peter Zhiping Zhang , Jeffrey D. Varner

We have developed an end-to-end, retrosynthesis system, named ChemiRise, that can propose complete retrosynthesis routes for organic compounds rapidly and reliably. The system was trained on a processed patent database of over 3 million…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Xiangyan Sun , Ke Liu , Yuquan Lin , Lingjie Wu , Haoming Xing , Minghong Gao , Ji Liu , Suocheng Tan , Zekun Ni , Qi Han , Junqiu Wu , Jie Fan

Retrosynthesis prediction aims to infer the reactant molecule based on a given product molecule, which is a fundamental task in chemical synthesis. However, existing models rely on static pattern-matching paradigm, which limits their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyi Li , Sai Wang , Yutian Lin , Yu Wu , Yi Yang

Scaling laws predict that the performance of large language models improves with increasing model size and data size. In practice, pre-training has been relying on massive web crawls, using almost all data sources publicly available on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Thao Nguyen , Yang Li , Olga Golovneva , Luke Zettlemoyer , Sewoong Oh , Ludwig Schmidt , Xian Li

Predicting reactants from a specified core product stands as a fundamental challenge within organic synthesis, termed retrosynthesis prediction. Recently, semi-template-based methods and graph-edits-based methods have achieved good…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-13 Zixun Lan , Binjie Hong , Jiajun Zhu , Zuo Zeng , Zhenfu Liu , Limin Yu , Fei Ma

We present an attention-based Transformer model for automatic retrosynthesis route planning. Our approach starts from reactants prediction of single-step organic reactions for given products, followed by Monte Carlo tree search-based…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-07 Kangjie Lin , Youjun Xu , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have shown great promise in their ability to accelerate novel materials discovery. As researchers and domain scientists seek to unify and consolidate chemical knowledge, the case for models with…

Automated Synthesis Planning has recently re-emerged as a research area at the intersection of chemistry and machine learning. Despite the appearance of steady progress, we argue that imperfect benchmarks and inconsistent comparisons mask…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Krzysztof Maziarz , Austin Tripp , Guoqing Liu , Megan Stanley , Shufang Xie , Piotr Gaiński , Philipp Seidl , Marwin Segler

We cast retrosynthesis as a machine translation problem by introducing a special Tensor2Tensor, an entire attention-based and fully data-driven model. Given a data set comprising about 50,000 diverse reactions extracted from USPTO patents,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Hongliang Duan , Ling Wang , Chengyun Zhang , Jianjun Li

Reaction condition recommendation sits immediately after retrosynthetic disconnection selection, and in practice, chemists require both accurate predictions and the precedents that justify them. We present HiRes (Hierarchical Reaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shreyas Vinaya Sathyanarayana , Raja Sekhar Pappala , Deepak Warrier

We propose a new model for making generalizable and diverse retrosynthetic reaction predictions. Given a target compound, the task is to predict the likely chemical reactants to produce the target. This generative task can be framed as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Benson Chen , Tianxiao Shen , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Regina Barzilay

The synthesis of complex natural products remains one of the grand challenges of organic chemistry. We present DeepRetro, a major advancement in computational retrosynthesis that enables the discovery of viable synthetic routes for complex…

Retrosynthesis, of which the goal is to find a set of reactants for synthesizing a target product, is an emerging research area of deep learning. While the existing approaches have shown promising results, they currently lack the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Hankook Lee , Sungsoo Ahn , Seung-Woo Seo , You Young Song , Eunho Yang , Sung-Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Chemical reaction and retrosynthesis prediction are fundamental tasks in drug discovery. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in many domains. However, directly applying LLMs to these tasks faces two major challenges:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xuan Lin , Qingrui Liu , Hongxin Xiang , Daojian Zeng , Xiangxiang Zeng

Generating sub-optimal synthesis transformation sequences ("synthesis recipe") is an important problem in logic synthesis. Manually crafted synthesis recipes have poor quality. State-of-the art machine learning (ML) works to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Benjamin Tan , Ryan Carey , Tushit Jain , Ramesh Karri , Siddharth Garg

The identification of synthetic routes that end with a desired product has been an inherently time-consuming process that is largely dependent on expert knowledge regarding a limited fraction of the entire reaction space. At present,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-17 Zhongliang Guo , Stephen Wu , Mitsuru Ohno , Ryo Yoshida