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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly recognized as powerful tools for scientific discovery, particularly in molecular science. A fundamental requirement for these models is the ability to accurately understand molecular structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yunhui Jang , Jaehyung Kim , Sungsoo Ahn

In the field of chemical structure recognition, the task of converting molecular images into machine-readable data formats such as SMILES string stands as a significant challenge, primarily due to the varied drawing styles and conventions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yufan Chen , Ching Ting Leung , Yong Huang , Jianwei Sun , Hao Chen , Hanyu Gao

In recent years, artificial intelligence has played an important role on accelerating the whole process of drug discovery. Various of molecular representation schemes of different modals (e.g. textual sequence or graph) are developed. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tianyu Wu , Yang Tang , Qiyu Sun , Luolin Xiong

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

Large pretrained models such as GPT-3 have had tremendous impact on modern natural language processing by leveraging self-supervised learning to learn salient representations that can be used to readily finetune on a wide variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Walid Ahmad , Elana Simon , Seyone Chithrananda , Gabriel Grand , Bharath Ramsundar

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

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

Synthesis planning and reaction outcome prediction are two fundamental problems in computer-aided organic chemistry for which a variety of data-driven approaches have emerged. Natural language approaches that model each problem as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zhengkai Tu , Connor W. Coley

Molecules are graphs, but large language models~(LLMs) are usually asked to reason about them through linear strings. The most popular molecular representation, SMILES, compresses atoms, bonds, branches and rings into a compact sequence in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-19 Zhiyuan Yan , Chen Liu , Boxuan Zhao , Kaiqing Lin , Jixiang Zhao , Yimi Wang , Liuzhenghao Lv , Hao Li , Shanzhuo Zhang , Li Yuan , Fanyang Mo

Language models for molecular design have scaled to hundreds of millions of parameters, yet how they learn chemical grammar is poorly understood. We train SMolLM, a 53K-parameter weight-shared transformer, to generate novel SMILES with 95%…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Akhil Jindal , Harang Ju

Large-scale pre-training methodologies for chemical language models represent a breakthrough in cheminformatics. These methods excel in tasks such as property prediction and molecule generation by learning contextualized representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Eduardo Soares , Victor Shirasuna , Emilio Vital Brazil , Renato Cerqueira , Dmitry Zubarev , Kristin Schmidt

In the computational prediction of chemical compound properties, molecular descriptors and fingerprints encoded to low dimensional vectors are used. The selection of proper molecular descriptors and fingerprints is both important and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Sangrak Lim , Yong Oh Lee

The quest for accurate prediction of drug molecule properties poses a fundamental challenge in the realm of Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD). An effective representation of drug molecules emerges as a pivotal component in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhuoyuan Wang , Jiacong Mi , Shan Lu , Jieyue He

Molecular property prediction with deep learning has gained much attention over the past years. Owing to the scarcity of labeled molecules, there has been growing interest in self-supervised learning methods that learn generalizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Peizhen Bai , Xianyuan Liu , Haiping Lu

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

Text-based foundation models have become an important part of scientific discovery, with molecular foundation models accelerating advancements in material science and molecular design.However, existing models are constrained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Alexius Wadell , Anoushka Bhutani , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

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

In this work, we propose a simple transformer-based baseline for multimodal molecular representation learning, integrating three distinct modalities: SMILES strings, 2D graph representations, and 3D conformers of molecules. A key aspect of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Andrei Manolache , Dragos Tantaru , Mathias Niepert

Pre-trained Language Models have emerged as promising tools for predicting molecular properties, yet their development is in its early stages, necessitating further research to enhance their efficacy and address challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Eduardo Soares , Akihiro Kishimoto , Emilio Vital Brazil , Seiji Takeda , Hiroshi Kajino , Renato Cerqueira

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