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Modeling molecules as undirected graphs and chemical reactions as graph rewriting operations is a natural and convenient approach tom odeling chemistry. Graph grammar rules are most naturally employed to model elementary reactions like…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Jakob L. Andersen , Christoph Flamm , Daniel Merkle , Peter F. Stadler

In drug-discovery-related tasks such as virtual screening, machine learning is emerging as a promising way to predict molecular properties. Conventionally, molecular fingerprints (numerical representations of molecules) are calculated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Shion Honda , Shoi Shi , Hiroki R. Ueda

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

Molecular representation is a critical element in our understanding of the physical world and the foundation for modern molecular machine learning. Previous molecular machine learning models have employed strings, fingerprints, global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Daniil A. Boiko , Thiago Reschützegger , Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling , Samuel M. Blau , Gabe Gomes

Therapeutic peptides have emerged as a pivotal modality in modern drug discovery, occupying a chemically and topologically rich space. While accurate prediction of their physicochemical properties is essential for accelerating peptide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Seungeon Lee , Takuto Koyama , Itsuki Maeda , Shigeyuki Matsumoto , Yasushi Okuno

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

Molecules have seemed like a natural fit to deep learning's tendency to handle a complex structure through representation learning, given enough data. However, this often continuous representation is not natural for understanding chemical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Austin Clyde , Arvind Ramanathan , Rick Stevens

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant success in natural language processing (NLP) and various interdisciplinary areas. However, applying LLMs to chemistry is a complex task that requires specialized domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Chang Liao , Yemin Yu , Yu Mei , Ying Wei

Chemical language models (CLMs) are increasingly used for molecular design and property prediction. Because these models learn from textual encodings of molecules, differences in how such encodings are generated may affect their behavior.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-13 Yosuke Kikuchi , Yasuhiro Yoshikai , Shumpei Nemoto , Ayako Furuhama , Takashi Yamada , Hiroyuki Kusuhara , Tadahaya Mizuno

Molecule representation learning (MRL) methods aim to embed molecules into a real vector space. However, existing SMILES-based (Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System) or GNN-based (Graph Neural Networks) MRL methods either take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Hongwei Wang , Weijiang Li , Xiaomeng Jin , Kyunghyun Cho , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han , Martin D. Burke

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

Graphs are central to the chemical sciences, providing a natural language to describe molecules, proteins, reactions, and industrial processes. They capture interactions and structures that underpin materials, biology, and medicine. This…

Language models demonstrate fundamental abilities in syntax, semantics, and reasoning, though their performance often depends significantly on the inputs they process. This study introduces TSIS (Simplified TSID) and its variants:TSISD…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Juan-Ni Wu , Tong Wang , Li-Juan Tang , Hai-Long Wu , Ru-Qin Yu

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

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

Complex chemical structures, like drugs, are usually defined by SMILES strings as a sequence of molecules and bonds. These SMILES strings are used in different complex machine learning-based drug-related research and representation works.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-29 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Šerbetar Karlo , Raima Islam , Taki Hasan Rafi , Dong-Kyu Chae

Motivation: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) are crucial for drug discovery and disease understanding, yet their completion and reasoning are challenging. Knowledge Embedding (KE) methods capture global semantics but struggle with dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yitong Lin , Jiaying He , Jiahe Chen , Xinnan Zhu , Jianwei Zheng , Tao Bo

Large language models have made significant strides in natural language processing, enabling innovative applications in molecular science by processing textual representations of molecules. However, most existing language models cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Pengfei Liu , Yiming Ren , Jun Tao , Zhixiang Ren

The way we analyse clinical texts has undergone major changes over the last years. The introduction of language models such as BERT led to adaptations for the (bio)medical domain like PubMedBERT and ClinicalBERT. These models rely on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Tom van Sonsbeek , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring

Graph-structured information offers rich contextual information that can enhance language models by providing structured relationships and hierarchies, leading to more expressive embeddings for various applications such as retrieval,…