arXiv Machine Learning

Condition aware learning enables robust prediction of oligonucleotide melting behavior across diverse chemistries and assay conditions

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
Aug 26

Differential Learning for Robust Prediction of Thermal Stability with Application to Energetic Materials

arXiv:2608.23874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting thermal stability during handling and storage is essential for the design of safe and reliable energetic materials. However, experimental...

By Megan C. Davis, R. Seaton Ullberg, Jeremy N. Schroeder, Andrew H. Salij, Marc J. Cawkwell, Christopher J. Snyder, Ivana Matanovic, Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

AquaGen: Scaling generative models to molecular dynamics precision on thousands of atoms

arXiv:2607. 03513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present AquaGen, the first all-atom, explicit solvent, periodic-boundary-condition-aware generative model that produces molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution at a fraction of the cost of molecular dynamics (MD).

By Emmanuel Bengio, Sanjeev Raja, Yui Tik Pang, Kerstin Klaeser, Cristian Gabellini, Nikhil Shenoy, Francesco Di Giovanni, Prudencio Tossou
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
Jun 5

MolE-RAG: Molecular Structure-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Chemistry

arXiv:2606. 05693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for molecular property prediction, but their ability to reason over chemical structures remains limited, as molecular representations such as SMILES differ substantially from the natural language on which LLMs are primarily trained.

By Joey Chan, Wonbin Kweon, Ashley Shin, Niharika Bhattacharjee, Pengcheng Jiang, Yue Guo, Jiawei Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

In-Context Molecular Property Prediction with LLMs: A Blinding Study on Memorization and Knowledge Conflicts

arXiv:2603. 25857v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have expanded beyond natural language processing to scientific prediction tasks, including molecular property prediction.

By Matthias Busch, Marius Tacke, Sviatlana V. Lamaka, Mikhail L. Zheludkevich, Christian J. Cyron, Christian Feiler, Roland C. Aydin
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Role-Aware Morgan Fingerprints for Reaction Yield Prediction

The paper introduces MFP, a reaction yield prediction method that uses role-aware Morgan fingerprints. It computes count-based circular fingerprints for each reaction component, aggregates them by chemical role, and combines them with transformation-sensitive difference features into a fixed-length descriptor for a feed-forward neural regressor. On the Suzuki‑Miyaura and Buchwald‑Hartwig benchmarks, MFP achieves R² scores of 0.878 and 0.969 respectively, while training an order of magnitude faster than graph or Transformer-based alternatives.

By Chinmay Mirji, Prashant Shekhar, Foram Madiyar, Hao Peng
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

DASyR-LLM: Domain-Aware Symbolic Regression with LLMs for Kinetic Model Discovery

Kinetic model discovery is a central challenge in chemical engineering, as accurate rate expressions are essential for understanding and controlling chemical and biological processes. Symbolic regression (SR) has emerged as a powerful data-driven approach for identifying interpretable kinetic models, but usually operates without domain knowledge, often exploring physicochemically implausible models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

A General-Purpose Framework for Chemical Reaction Representation with Atomic Correspondence and Flexible Condition Adaptation

The paper introduces Align-React, a chemical reaction representation learning framework that incorporates atomic correspondence between reactants and products, an adapter for embedding reaction conditions, and a Reaction-Center-Aware attention mechanism. These components enable the model to capture precise molecular transformations and focus on critical functional groups, leading to improved performance across a variety of organic reaction tasks. The framework outperforms existing architectures on most benchmark datasets.

By Kaipeng Zeng, Xianbin Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Yaohui Jin, Yanyan Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 17

Reaction-Transformation-Aware Flow Matching for Generalizable Transition State Generation

arXiv:2608. 14076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transition-state (TS) structures define the energetic barriers and mechanistic pathways of elementary chemical reactions, yet their identification remains computationally demanding because conventional saddle-point searches require expensive quantum-mechanical calculations.

By Kaipeng Zeng, Wenxi Zhai, Shengrui Xu, Jie Zhao, Bowen Li, Shiyue Wang, Junchi Yan, Tong Zhu