arXiv AI

Comprehensive pKa Data Augmentation from Limited Real Data through an Engineered Models-Quantum Framework

arXiv:2606. 17077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proton dissociation constants (pKa) are critical for functional molecule discovery and molecular modeling.

arXiv AI
Sep 17

BOOM: Benchmarking Out-Of-distribution Molecular Property Predictions of Machine Learning Models

BOOM is a new benchmark for evaluating out‑of‑distribution (OOD) molecular property predictions in machine learning. It provides chemically‑informed tests across common property prediction tasks and assesses over 150 model‑task combinations. The study shows that current models, including chemical foundation models, struggle to generalize OOD, with the best model still exhibiting three times higher error than in‑distribution predictions.

By Evan R. Antoniuk, Shehtab Zaman, Tal Ben-Nun, Peggy Li, James Diffenderfer, Busra Sahin, Obadiah Smolenski, Everett Grethel, Tim Hsu, Anna M. Hiszpanski, Kenneth Chiu, Bhavya Kailkhura, Brian Van Essen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

ElemeNet: Multiscale Molecular Machine Learning with Uncertainty Quantification Across the Periodic Table

arXiv:2606. 30961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in deep learning architectures and representations have enabled ML-driven chemical property prediction, but state-of-the-art (SOTA) models have remained largely confined to independent codebases and lack support for diverse chemical species.

By Jacob W. Toney, Samir Darouich, Yiran Wang, Aaron G. Garrison, Johannes K\"astner, Heather J. Kulik
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Hypothesis-and-Refinement Learning of Organic Structures from Multimodal Spectroscopic Data

arXiv:2607. 19816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Determining molecular structures from spectroscopic data remains fundamentally challenging because the inverse problem is intrinsically underdetermined: individual spectra are sparse, low-dimensional, and encode only partial structural evidence relative to the vast space of possible molecules.

By Chengchun Liu, Zhiyuan Yan, Li Yuan, Hao Li, Boxuan Zhao, Yonghong Tian, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Fanyang Mo
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Active Learning Enables Generation of Molecules that Advance the Known Pareto Front

The paper presents a closed‑loop molecule generation pipeline that iteratively retrains on new quantum‑chemical simulation data, overcoming limitations of static generative models. This approach produces molecules whose properties extend up to 0.44 standard deviations beyond the training set and improves out‑of‑distribution classification accuracy by 79%. By conditioning on thermodynamic stability during the loop, the method yields a 3.5‑fold increase in the proportion of stable, potentially synthesizable molecules.

By Evan R. Antoniuk, Peggy Li, Nathan Keilbart, Stephen Weitzner, Bhavya Kailkhura, Anna M. Hiszpanski
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Hessian-based molecular conformation augmentation for a scalable and efficient strategy of machine learning interatomic potentials

The paper introduces two Hessian-based data augmentation techniques—UniAug and ModeAug—to improve machine‑learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). These methods use simple Taylor expansions to generate augmented configurations without modifying training objectives or increasing computational overhead. Experiments on both non‑equilibrium and equilibrium datasets show that the augmentations enhance model accuracy and provide practical guidelines for specific tasks.

By Bumju Kwak, Jeonghee Jo