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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

We introduce Functional Group-Aware Representations for Small Molecules (FARM), a novel foundation model designed to bridge the gap between SMILES, natural language, and molecular graphs. The key idea behind FARM is the incorporation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Thao Nguyen , Kuan-Hao Huang , Ge Liu , Martin D. Burke , Ying Diao , Heng Ji

This paper presents a comprehensive examination of the impact of tokenization strategies and vocabulary sizes on the performance of Arabic language models in downstream natural language processing tasks. Our investigation focused on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Mohamed Taher Alrefaie , Nour Eldin Morsy , Nada Samir

Choosing an appropriate tokenization scheme is often a bottleneck in low-resource cross-lingual transfer. To understand the downstream implications of text representation choices, we perform a comparative analysis on language models having…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Md Mushfiqur Rahman , Fardin Ahsan Sakib , Fahim Faisal , Antonios Anastasopoulos

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

Molecular language modeling tasks such as molecule captioning have been recognized for their potential to further understand molecular properties that can aid drug discovery or material synthesis based on chemical reactions. Unlike the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sangyeup Kim , Nayeon Kim , Yinhua Piao , Sun Kim

Background & Objective: Biomedical text data are increasingly available for research. Tokenization is an initial step in many biomedical text mining pipelines. Tokenization is the process of parsing an input biomedical sentence (represented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Christopher Meaney , Therese A Stukel , Peter C Austin , Michael Escobar

Tokenization is fundamental in assembly code analysis, impacting intrinsic characteristics like vocabulary size, semantic coverage, and extrinsic performance in downstream tasks. Despite its significance, tokenization in the context of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Ahmed Mostafa , Raisul Arefin Nahid , Samuel Mulder

Modeling genomic sequences faces two unsolved challenges: the information density varies widely across different regions, while there is no clearly defined minimum vocabulary unit. Relying on either four primitive bases or independently…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-20 Siyuan Li , Kai Yu , Anna Wang , Zicheng Liu , Chang Yu , Jingbo Zhou , Qirong Yang , Yucheng Guo , Xiaoming Zhang , Stan Z. Li

Tokenizers act as a bridge between human language and the latent space of language models, influencing how language is represented in these models. Due to the immense popularity of English-Centric Large Language Models (LLMs), efforts are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Menan Velayuthan , Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran

Transformer-based models trained on large and general purpose datasets consisting of molecular strings have recently emerged as a powerful tool for successfully modeling various structure-property relations. Inspired by this success, we…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-02 Jerret Ross , Brian Belgodere , Samuel C. Hoffman , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Jiri Navratil , Youssef Mroueh , Payel Das

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse tasks has driven the research community to extend their capabilities to molecular applications. However, most molecular LLMs employ adapter-based architectures that do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shuhan Guo , Yatao Bian , Ruibing Wang , Nan Yin , Zhen Wang , Quanming Yao

The vocabulary used by language models (LM) - defined by the tokenizer - plays a key role in text generation quality. However, its impact remains under-explored in radiology. In this work, we address this gap by systematically comparing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hermione Warr , Wentian Xu , Harry Anthony , Yasin Ibrahim , Daniel McGowan , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

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

Molecular property prediction has gained significant attention due to its transformative potential in multiple scientific disciplines. Conventionally, a molecule graph can be represented either as a graph-structured data or a SMILES text.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Chen Qian , Huayi Tang , Zhirui Yang , Hong Liang , Yong Liu

This study introduces a novel knowledge enhanced tokenisation mechanism, K-Tokeniser, for clinical text processing. Technically, at initialisation stage, K-Tokeniser populates global representations of tokens based on semantic types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abul Hasan , Jinge Wu , Quang Ngoc Nguyen , Salomé Andres , Imane Guellil , Huayu Zhang , Arlene Casey , Beatrice Alex , Bruce Guthrie , Honghan Wu

Deep generative models have recently been applied to molecule design. If the molecules are encoded in linear SMILES strings, modeling becomes convenient. However, models relying on string representations tend to generate invalid samples and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bo Pang , Tian Han , Ying Nian Wu

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the development of protein structural tokenization methods, which chunk protein 3D structures into discrete or continuous representations. Structure tokenization enables the direct application of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-26 Xinyu Yuan , Zichen Wang , Marcus Collins , Huzefa Rangwala

Molecules are commonly represented as SMILES strings, which can be readily converted to fixed-size molecular fingerprints. These fingerprints serve as feature vectors to train ML/DL models for molecular property prediction tasks in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Rajan , Ishaan Gupta

Large Language Models are versatile, general-purpose tools with a wide range of applications. Recently, the advent of "reasoning models" has led to substantial improvements in their abilities in advanced problem-solving domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Nicholas T. Runcie , Charlotte M. Deane , Fergus Imrie