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The applications of machine learning techniques to chemistry and materials science become more numerous by the day. The main challenge is to devise representations of atomic systems that are at the same time complete and concise, so as to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Michael J. Willatt , Felix Musil , Michele Ceriotti

Like many scientific fields, new chemistry literature has grown at a staggering pace, with thousands of papers released every month. A large portion of chemistry literature focuses on new molecules and reactions between molecules. Most…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-10 Daniel Campos , Heng Ji

The primary objective of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition is to identify chemical structure images into corresponding markup sequences. However, the complex two-dimensional structures of molecules, particularly those with rings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qikai Chang , Mingjun Chen , Changpeng Pi , Pengfei Hu , Zhenrong Zhang , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du , Baocai Yin , Jinshui Hu

Atomic-level modeling performed at large scales enables the investigation of mesoscale materials properties with atom-by-atom resolution. The spatial complexity of such cross-scale simulations renders them unsuitable for simple human visual…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Heejung Chung , Rodrigo Freitas , Gowoon Cheon , Evan J. Reed

Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR) aims to translate molecular diagrams in scientific literature into machine-readable formats, but current systems remain unreliable on real-world images due to substantial visual and chemical…

Chemical structure extraction from documents remains a hard problem due to both false positive identification of structures during segmentation and errors in the predicted structures. Current approaches rely on handcrafted rules and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Joshua Staker , Kyle Marshall , Robert Abel , Carolyn McQuaw

Rapid, non-destructive characterization of molecular level chemistry for organic matter (OM) is experimentally challenging. Raman spectroscopy is one of the most widely used techniques for non-destructive chemical characterization, although…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-08 Yun Liu , Nicola Ferralis , L. Taras Bryndzia , Jeffrey C. Grossman

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

Molecule-and-text cross-modal representation learning has emerged as a promising direction for enhancing the quality of molecular representation, thereby improving performance in various scientific fields. However, most approaches employ a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-04 Yikun Zhang , Geyan Ye , Chaohao Yuan , Bo Han , Long-Kai Huang , Jianhua Yao , Wei Liu , Yu Rong

Molecular representation learning has become a central approach in AI-driven drug discovery, yet existing molecular tokenizations such as SMILES remain largely syntactic and do not naturally align with chemically meaningful substructures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Takayuki Kimura

Descriptor generation methods using latent representations of encoder$-$decoder (ED) models with SMILES as input are useful because of the continuity of descriptor and restorability to the structure. However, it is not clear how the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Shumpei Nemoto , Tadahaya Mizuno , Hiroyuki Kusuhara

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) with molecule-functionalized tips has emerged as the primary experimental technique for probing the atomic structure of organic molecules on surfaces. Most experiments have been limited to nearly planar…

The need for analysis of toxicity in new drug candidates and the requirement of doing it fast have asked the consideration of scientists towards the use of artificial intelligence tools to examine toxicity levels and to develop models to a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Mriganka Nath , Subhasish Goswami

One endeavour of modern physical chemistry is to use bottom-up approaches to design materials and drugs with desired properties. Here we introduce an atomistic structure learning algorithm (ASLA) that utilizes a convolutional neural network…

Recent years have seen rapid development of descriptor generation based on representation learning of extremely diverse molecules, especially those that apply natural language processing (NLP) models to SMILES, a literal representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yasuhiro Yoshikai , Tadahaya Mizuno , Shumpei Nemoto , Hiroyuki Kusuhara

Functional groups and moieties are chemical descriptors of biomolecules that can be used to interpret their properties and functions, leading to the understanding of chemical or biological mechanisms. These chemical building blocks, or…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-08 Yasemin Yesiltepe , Ryan S. Renslow , Thomas O. Metz

One-dimensional NMR spectroscopy is one of the most widely used techniques for the characterization of organic compounds and natural products. For molecules with up to 36 non-hydrogen atoms, the number of possible structures has been…

Recent advancements in computational chemistry have leveraged the power of trans-former-based language models, such as MoLFormer, pre-trained using a vast amount of simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES) sequences, to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-05 Tianhao Peng , Yuchen Li , Xuhong Li , Jiang Bian , Zeke Xie , Ning Sui , Shahid Mumtaz , Yanwu Xu , Linghe Kong , Haoyi Xiong

Most molecular diagram parsers recover chemical structure from raster images (e.g., PNGs). However, many PDFs include commands giving explicit locations and shapes for characters, lines, and polygons. We present a new parser that uses these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ayush Kumar Shah , Bryan Manrique Amador , Abhisek Dey , Ming Creekmore , Blake Ocampo , Scott Denmark , Richard Zanibbi

Stereoisomers have the same molecular formula and the same atom connectivity and their existence can be related to the presence of different three-dimensional arrangements. Stereoisomerism is of great importance in many different fields…

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