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Retrosynthesis, which aims to identify viable synthetic pathways for target molecules by decomposing them into simpler precursors, is often treated as a search problem. However, its complexity arises from multi-branched tree-structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chengyang Tian , Yuhang Chang , Yangpeng Zhang , Yang Liu

In silico tools are important for generating novel hypotheses and exploring alternatives in de novo metabolic pathway design. However, while many computational frameworks have been proposed for retrobiosynthesis, few successful examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peter Zhiping Zhang , Jeffrey D. Varner

Single-step retrosynthesis is the cornerstone of retrosynthesis planning, which is a crucial task for computer-aided drug discovery. The goal of single-step retrosynthesis is to identify the possible reactants that lead to the synthesis of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-12 Huarui He , Jie Wang , Yunfei Liu , Feng Wu

Retrosynthesis, which predicts the reactants of a given target molecule, is an essential task for drug discovery. In recent years, the machine learing based retrosynthesis methods have achieved promising results. In this work, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shufang Xie , Rui Yan , Junliang Guo , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin

Retrosynthesis is the process of recursively decomposing target molecules into available building blocks. It plays an important role in solving problems in organic synthesis planning. To automate or assist in the retrosynthesis analysis,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-06 Chaochao Yan , Qianggang Ding , Peilin Zhao , Shuangjia Zheng , Jinyu Yang , Yang Yu , Junzhou Huang

We present an extension of our Molecular Transformer architecture combined with a hyper-graph exploration strategy for automatic retrosynthesis route planning without human intervention. The single-step retrosynthetic model sets a new state…

Retrosynthesis planning is a fundamental challenge in chemistry which aims at designing reaction pathways from commercially available starting materials to a target molecule. Each step in multi-step retrosynthesis planning requires accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-27 Ilia Igashov , Arne Schneuing , Marwin Segler , Michael Bronstein , Bruno Correia

Deep generative models have been shown powerful in generating novel molecules with desired chemical properties via their representations such as strings, trees or graphs. However, these models are limited in recommending synthetic routes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Dai Hai Nguyen , Koji Tsuda

Recently, template-based (TB) and template-free (TF) molecule graph learning methods have shown promising results to retrosynthesis. TB methods are more accurate using pre-encoded reaction templates, and TF methods are more scalable by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

While machine learning has transformed polymer design by enabling rapid property prediction and candidate generation, translating these designs into experimentally realizable materials remains a critical challenge. Traditionally, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-08 Sakshi Agarwal , Wei Xiong , Rampi Ramprasad

From medicines to materials, small organic molecules are indispensable for human well-being. To plan their syntheses, chemists employ a problem solving technique called retrosynthesis. In retrosynthesis, target molecules are recursively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Marwin H. S. Segler , Mike Preuss , Mark P. Waller

Template-free retrosynthesis methods treat the task as black-box sequence generation, limiting learning efficiency, while semi-template approaches rely on rigid reaction libraries that constrain generalization. We address this gap with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Chenguang Wang , Zihan Zhou , Lei Bai , Tianshu Yu

A fundamental problem in computational chemistry is to find a set of reactants to synthesize a target molecule, a.k.a. retrosynthesis prediction. Existing state-of-the-art methods rely on matching the target molecule with a large set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chence Shi , Minkai Xu , Hongyu Guo , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Recent work has proposed a promising approach to improving scalability of program synthesis by allowing the user to supply a syntactic template that constrains the space of potential programs. Unfortunately, creating templates often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jeevana Priya Inala , Nadia Polikarpova , Xiaokang Qiu , Benjamin S. Lerner , Armando Solar-Lezama

Retrosynthesis plays a crucial role in the fields of organic synthesis and drug development, where the goal is to identify suitable reactants that can yield a target product molecule. Although existing methods have achieved notable success,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiaxi Zhuang , Yu Zhang , Yan Zhang , Ying Qian , Aimin Zhou

We present an attention-based Transformer model for automatic retrosynthesis route planning. Our approach starts from reactants prediction of single-step organic reactions for given products, followed by Monte Carlo tree search-based…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-07 Kangjie Lin , Youjun Xu , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Design generation, in its essence, is a step-by-step process where designers progressively refine and enhance their work through careful modifications. Despite this fundamental characteristic, existing approaches mainly treat design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Faizan Farooq Khan , K J Joseph , Koustava Goswami , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Retrosynthesis -- the process of identifying a set of reactants to synthesize a target molecule -- is of vital importance to material design and drug discovery. Existing machine learning approaches based on language models and graph neural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ruoxi Sun , Hanjun Dai , Li Li , Steven Kearnes , Bo Dai

Retrosynthesis prediction is one of the fundamental challenges in organic synthesis. The task is to predict the reactants given a core product. With the advancement of machine learning, computer-aided synthesis planning has gained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Yue Wan , Benben Liao , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

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