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We discover a robust self-supervised strategy tailored towards molecular representations for generative masked language models through a series of tailored, in-depth ablations. Using this pre-training strategy, we train BARTSmiles, a…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated transformative potential across diverse fields. While LLMs have been applied to molecular simplified molecular input line entry system (SMILES) in computer-aided synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Kenan Li , Yijian Zhang , Jin Wang , Haipeng Gan , Zeying Sun , Xiaoguang Lei , Hao Dong

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

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

Gene transformer models such as Nucleotide Transformer, DNABert, and LOGO are trained to learn optimal gene sequence representations by using the Masked Language Modeling (MLM) training objective over the complete Human Reference Genome.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Soumyadeep Roy , Shamik Sural , Niloy Ganguly

In the present paper we evaluated efficiency of the recent Transformer-CNN models to predict target properties based on the augmented stereochemical SMILES. We selected a well-known Cliff activity dataset as well as a Dipole moment dataset…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-08 Ruud van Deursen , Igor V. Tetko , Guillaume Godin

Effective representation of molecules is a crucial factor affecting the performance of artificial intelligence models. This study introduces a flexible, fragment-based, multiscale molecular representation framework called t-SMILES…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Juan-Ni Wu , Tong Wang , Yue Chen , Li-Juan Tang , Hai-Long Wu , Ru-Qin Yu

Understanding protein sequences is vital and urgent for biology, healthcare, and medicine. Labeling approaches are expensive yet time-consuming, while the amount of unlabeled data is increasing quite faster than that of the labeled data due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Liang He , Shizhuo Zhang , Lijun Wu , Huanhuan Xia , Fusong Ju , He Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Yingce Xia , Jianwei Zhu , Pan Deng , Bin Shao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

We evaluate the impact of pretraining Graph Transformer architectures on atom-level quantum-mechanical features for the modeling of absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity (ADMET) properties of drug-like compounds. We…

Masked language modeling (MLM) is one of the key sub-tasks in vision-language pretraining. In the cross-modal setting, tokens in the sentence are masked at random, and the model predicts the masked tokens given the image and the text. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yonatan Bitton , Gabriel Stanovsky , Michael Elhadad , Roy Schwartz

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

Predicting molecular properties with data-driven methods has drawn much attention in recent years. Particularly, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various molecular generation and prediction tasks. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-19 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Hao Wang , Chengqiang Lu , Chee-Kong Lee

Molecular property prediction is a crucial foundation for drug discovery. In recent years, pre-trained deep learning models have been widely applied to this task. Some approaches that incorporate prior biological domain knowledge into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Tianyu Zhang , Yuxiang Ren , Chengbin Hou , Hairong Lv , Xuegong Zhang

We propose to pre-train a unified language model for both autoencoding and partially autoregressive language modeling tasks using a novel training procedure, referred to as a pseudo-masked language model (PMLM). Given an input text with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hangbo Bao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Wenhui Wang , Nan Yang , Xiaodong Liu , Yu Wang , Songhao Piao , Jianfeng Gao , Ming Zhou , Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Molecular representation learning plays an essential role in cheminformatics. Recently, language model-based approaches have gained popularity as an alternative to traditional expert-designed features to encode molecules. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Zhihui Guo , Pramod Sharma , Andy Martinez , Liang Du , Robin Abraham

Accurate molecular property prediction requires integrating complementary information from molecular structure and chemical semantics. In this work, we propose LGM-CL, a local-global multimodal contrastive learning framework that jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiayu Liu , Zhengyi Lu , Yunhong Liao , Chan Fan , Hou-biao Li

Recurrent neural networks have been widely used to generate millions of de novo molecules in a known chemical space. These deep generative models are typically setup with LSTM or GRU units and trained with canonical SMILEs. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ruud van Deursen , Peter Ertl , Igor V. Tetko , Guillaume Godin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) plays a central role in molecular representation learning. Yet, many recent innovations in masking-based pretraining are introduced as heuristics and lack principled evaluation, obscuring which design choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiannan Yang , Veronika Thost , Tengfei Ma

We present a novel multimodal language model approach for predicting molecular properties by combining chemical language representation with physicochemical features. Our approach, MULTIMODAL-MOLFORMER, utilizes a causal multistage feature…

Recent data-efficient molecular generation approaches exploit graph grammars to introduce interpretability into the generative models. However, grammar learning therein relies on expert annotation or unreliable heuristics for algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Michael Sun , Weize Yuan , Gang Liu , Wojciech Matusik , Jie Chen