arXiv Machine Learning

FRIGID: Scaling Diffusion-Based Molecular Generation from Mass Spectra at Training and Inference Time

arXiv:2604. 16648v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tandem mass spectrometry is prominent in scientific discovery workflows for identifying unknown small molecules, yet high-throughput structural elucidation remains challenging.

arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

MSAlign: Aligning Molecule and Mass Spectra representations for Metabolite Identification

The paper introduces MSAlign, a lightweight model that aligns frozen foundation models for mass spectra (DreaMS) and molecules (MolDeBERTa) to improve metabolite identification from MS/MS spectra. It presents a unified framework for representation alignment and contrastive learning, demonstrates that a score fusion strategy further boosts performance at minimal cost, and addresses evaluation challenges by quantifying distribution shift in data splitting strategies. All resources, including datasets, splits, and code, are publicly released to promote reproducible research.

By Paul Krzakala, Gabriel Melo, Camille Lan\c{c}on, Charlotte Laclau, R\'emi Flamary, Etienne Th\'evenot, Florence d'Alch\'e-Buc
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

MassSpecGym in the Wild: Uncovering and Correcting Evaluation Pitfalls in AI-Driven Molecule Discovery

arXiv:2606. 19624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable benchmarking is critical for developing machine learning models for tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based molecule discovery.

By Hongxuan Liu, Roman Bushuiev, Ivy Lightheart, Mrunali Manjrekar, Anton Bushuiev, Magdalena Lederbauer, Filip Jozefov, Yinkai Wang, Soha Hassoun, Josef Sivic, James Taylor, Runzhong Wang, David Healey, Tom\'a\v{s} Pluskal, Connor W. Coley
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Transport-Coupled Bayesian Flows for Molecular Graph Generation

Transport-Coupled Bayesian Flows for Molecular Graph Generation (TopBF) addresses a key mismatch in existing diffusion models for molecular graph generation by eliminating the need for hard discretization during sampling. The framework generates graphs directly in continuous parameter distributions, learns graph topology via a Quasi-Wasserstein optimal‑transport coupling with geodesic costs, and enables property‑conditioned generation without retraining. Experiments on QM9 and ZINC250k show that TopBF achieves higher structural fidelity and more efficient generation compared to prior methods.

By Yida Xiong, Jiameng Chen, Kun Li, Hongzhi Zhang, Xiantao Cai, Lei Lei, Wenbin Hu