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Modern SMILES-based chemical language models obtain strong MoleculeNet performance by treating SMILES as generic text and compensating with multi-million-molecule self-supervised pretraining. We ask: when a domain carries structural priors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Deepak Warrier , Raja Sekhar Pappala

Understanding the limits of language is a prerequisite for Large Language Models (LLMs) to act as theories of natural language. LLM performance in some language tasks presents both quantitative and qualitative differences from that of…

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Recent reasoning-based large language models have shown strong performance on tasks with verifiable outcomes, but their use in de novo molecular generation remains limited by the lack of training environments where rewards can be computed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Philippe Formont , Maxime Darrin , Ismail Ben Ayed , Pablo Piantanida

Language models (LMs) are powerful tools for natural language processing, but they often struggle to produce coherent and fluent text when they are small. Models with around 125M parameters such as GPT-Neo (small) or GPT-2 (small) can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ronen Eldan , Yuanzhi Li

The modeling of bio-molecular system across molecular scales remains a central challenge in scientific research. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to bio-molecular discovery, yet systematic evaluation across multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yaxin Xu , Yue Zhou , Tianyu Zhao , Fengwei An , Zhixiang Ren

Language modelling is regularly analysed at word, subword or character units, but syllables are seldom used. Syllables provide shorter sequences than characters, they can be extracted with rules, and their segmentation typically requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Arturo Oncevay , Kervy Rivas Rojas

Traditional auto-parallelizing compilers, reliant on rigid heuristics, struggle with the complexity of modern heterogeneous systems. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of small (approximately 1B parameter) language-model-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Prathamesh Devadiga

Protein language models have shown remarkable success in learning biological information from protein sequences. However, most existing models are limited by either autoencoding or autoregressive pre-training objectives, which makes them…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Bo Chen , Xingyi Cheng , Pan Li , Yangli-ao Geng , Jing Gong , Shen Li , Zhilei Bei , Xu Tan , Boyan Wang , Xin Zeng , Chiming Liu , Aohan Zeng , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang , Le Song

Understanding how chemical language models (CLMs) learn chemical meaning from molecular string representations, rather than only surface-level string patterns, is an important question in chemical representation learning and machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zehao Li , Yasuhiro Yoshikai , Shumpei Nemoto , Hiroyuki Kusuhara , Tadahaya Mizuno

Text-guided molecule generation is a task where molecules are generated to match specific textual descriptions. Recently, most existing SMILES-based molecule generation methods rely on an autoregressive architecture. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Haisong Gong , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

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

Masked Language Models (MLM) are self-supervised neural networks trained to fill in the blanks in a given sentence with masked tokens. Despite the tremendous success of MLMs for various text based tasks, they are not robust for spoken…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Mahdi Namazifar , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani Tür

Representing molecular structures effectively in chemistry remains a challenging task. Language models and graph-based models are extensively utilized within this domain, consistently achieving state-of-the-art results across an array of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nikolai Rekut , Alexey Orlov , Klea Ziu , Elizaveta Starykh , Martin Takac , Aleksandr Beznosikov

SMILES, a crucial textual representation of molecular structures, has garnered significant attention as a foundation for pre-trained language models (LMs). However, most existing pre-trained SMILES LMs focus solely on the single-token level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kangjie Zheng , Siyue Liang , Junwei Yang , Bin Feng , Zequn Liu , Wei Ju , Zhiping Xiao , Ming Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a class of deep learning models adept at understanding natural language and generating coherent responses to various prompts or queries. These models far exceed the complexity of conventional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Minghao Shao , Abdul Basit , Ramesh Karri , Muhammad Shafique

A molecule's properties are fundamentally determined by its composition and structure encoded in its molecular graph. Thus, reasoning about molecular properties requires the ability to parse and understand the molecular graph. Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Christoph Bartmann , Johannes Schimunek , Mykyta Ielanskyi , Philipp Seidl , Günter Klambauer , Sohvi Luukkonen

Language models provide a key framework for studying linguistic theories based on prediction, but phonological analysis using large language models (LLMs) is difficult; there are few phonological benchmarks beyond English and the standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zébulon Goriely , Paula Buttery

Generative machine learning models for exploring chemical space have shown immense promise, but many molecules they generate are too difficult to synthesize, making them impractical for further investigation or development. In this work, we…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language tasks, marking significant strides towards general artificial intelligence. While general artificial intelligence is leveraged by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yizhe Yang , Huashan Sun , Jiawei Li , Runheng Liu , Yinghao Li , Yuhang Liu , Heyan Huang , Yang Gao

Vision-language models (VLMs) unify computer vision and natural language processing in a single architecture capable of interpreting and describing images. Most state-of-the-art systems rely on two computationally intensive components:…

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