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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated broad utility across molecular domains, spanning drug discovery and materials design. Analyzing LLMs' latent representations is crucial for elucidating their underlying mechanisms, improving…

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SMILES is a linear representation of chemical structures which encodes the connection table, and the stereochemistry of a molecule as a line of text with a grammar structure denoting atoms, bonds, rings and chains, and this information can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Arindam Paul , Dipendra Jha , Reda Al-Bahrani , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Ankit Agrawal

We seek to automate the design of molecules based on specific chemical properties. Our primary contributions are a simpler method for generating SMILES strings guaranteed to be chemically valid, using a combination of a new context-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Egor Kraev

Molecule and text representation learning has gained increasing interest due to its potential for enhancing the understanding of chemical information. However, existing models often struggle to capture subtle differences between molecules…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , SangKeun Lee

With the emergence of Transformer architectures and their powerful understanding of textual data, a new horizon has opened up to predict the molecular properties based on text description. While SMILES are the most common form of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Suryanarayanan Balaji , Rishikesh Magar , Yayati Jadhav , Amir Barati Farimani

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

Molecular property prediction aims to learn representations that map chemical structures to functional properties. While multimodal learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm to learn molecular representations, prior works have largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Feng Jiang , Mangal Prakash , Hehuan Ma , Jianyuan Deng , Yuzhi Guo , Amina Mollaysa , Tommaso Mansi , Rui Liao , Junzhou Huang

Chemists in search of structure-property relationships face great challenges due to limited high quality, concordant datasets. Machine learning (ML) has significantly advanced predictive capabilities in chemical sciences, but these modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yulia Pimonova , Michael G. Taylor , Alice Allen , Ping Yang , Nicholas Lubbers

Reliable molecular property prediction is essential for various scientific endeavors and industrial applications, such as drug discovery. However, the data scarcity, combined with the highly non-linear causal relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yue Wan , Jialu Wu , Tingjun Hou , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Xiaowei Jia

Molecular representation learning (MRL) is a fundamental task for drug discovery. However, previous deep-learning (DL) methods focus excessively on learning robust inner-molecular representations by mask-dominated pretraining framework,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-16 Yu Wang , JingJie Zhang , Junru Jin , Leyi Wei

GNNs and chemical fingerprints are the predominant approaches to representing molecules for property prediction. However, in NLP, transformers have become the de-facto standard for representation learning thanks to their strong downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Seyone Chithrananda , Gabriel Grand , Bharath Ramsundar

In the intersection of molecular science and deep learning, tasks like virtual screening have driven the need for a high-throughput molecular representation generator on large chemical databases. However, as SMILES strings are the most…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wenhao Zhu , Ziyao Li , Lingsheng Cai , Guojie Song

Predicting molecular properties is a critical component of drug discovery. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have enabled end-to-end learning from molecular structures, reducing reliance on manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Peng Zhou , Lai Hou Tim , Zhixiang Cheng , Kun Xie , Chaoyi Li , Wei Liu , Xiangxiang Zeng

The development of large language models and multi-modal models has enabled the appealing idea of generating novel molecules from text descriptions. Generative modeling would shift the paradigm from relying on large-scale chemical screening…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yifan Deng , Spencer S. Ericksen , Anthony Gitter

We introduce a novel continued pre-training method, MELT (MatEriaLs-aware continued pre-Training), specifically designed to efficiently adapt the pre-trained language models (PLMs) for materials science. Unlike previous adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Junho Kim , Yeachan Kim , Jun-Hyung Park , Yerim Oh , Suho Kim , SangKeun Lee

Deep learning models have become fundamental tools in drug design. In particular, large language models trained on biochemical sequences learn feature vectors that guide drug discovery through virtual screening. However, such models do not…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-28 Joseph D. Clark , Tanner J. Dean , Diwakar Shukla

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

Machine learning approaches have become popular for molecular modeling tasks, including molecular force fields and properties prediction. Traditional supervised learning methods suffer from scarcity of labeled data for particular tasks,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Xiang Gao , Weihao Gao , Wenzhi Xiao , Zhirui Wang , Chong Wang , Liang Xiang

Purpose: Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) from OpenAI and LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) from Meta AI are increasingly recognized for their potential in the field of cheminformatics,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-22 Shaghayegh Sadeghi , Alan Bui , Ali Forooghi , Jianguo Lu , Alioune Ngom

Most current molecular language models transfer the masked language model or image-text generation model from natural language processing to molecular field. However, molecules are not solely characterized by atom/bond symbols; they…

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