arXiv Machine Learning

Parity-equivariant prediction of conformer-resolved electronic circular dichroism spectra accelerates absolute configuration assignment

The paper introduces PhysECD, a parity-aware E(3)-equivariant machine learning framework that predicts electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra from conformer geometries in milliseconds. It builds spectra from underlying quantum‑chemical quantities to enforce correct chiroptical symmetry. The authors also present SCECD, a large conformer‑resolved dataset of 578,104 computed spectra, and demonstrate that PhysECD achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on benchmarks and matches experimental spectra, offering a fast alternative to TDDFT for absolute configuration assignment.

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
Jul 7

FastCSP: Accelerated Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction with Universal Model for Atoms

arXiv:2508. 02641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP) is essential for applications in pharmaceuticals and organic electronics.

By Vahe Gharakhanyan, Yi Yang, Luis Barroso-Luque, Daniel S. Levine, Sushree Jagriti Sahoo, Brandon M. Wood, Kyle Michel, Muhammed Shuaibi, Gregory J. O. Beran, Viachaslau Bernat, Misko Dzamba, Xiang Fu, Meng Gao, Xingyu Liu, Benjamin K. Miller, Keian Noori, Lafe J. Purvis, Tingling Rao, Ammar Rizvi, Matt Uyttendaele, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Chiara Daraio, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Arman Boromand, Noa Marom, Zachary W. Ulissi, Anuroop Sriram
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Response-state Learning for Transferable Vibrational Spectroscopic Characterization with Electron Prior

The paper introduces SO(3) Equivariant Neural Kalman Networks (SENK), a model that predicts vibrational spectra by cascading an equivariant transformer backbone, an Equivariant Neural Kalman bridge, and an NBO-informed electronic-prior pathway. SENK improves accuracy over DetaNet on QM9S and QMe14S datasets while maintaining full-spectrum IR and Raman fidelity from small molecules to drug-like systems. It also remains stable and selectively enhances spectrally sensitive features in biomolecular systems with complex stereoelectronic effects, enabling transferable vibrational spectroscopy across diverse molecular materials.

By Zetong Li, Zhuosong Xie, Hengyu Fan, Jiaao Yu, Qiyao Hua, Zheng Lu, Liming Xu, Juanni Wu, Honglin Li
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Coupled-cluster molecular properties across the main group that extrapolate beyond training size

The paper introduces MEHnet-MG, an equivariant neural network that predicts a one‑electron Hamiltonian from a single inexpensive B3LYP/def2‑SVP calculation and uses it to compute a wide range of molecular properties—energy, optical gap, dipole, quadrupole, polarizability, Mulliken charges, and Mayer bond orders—at coupled‑cluster accuracy for nine main‑group elements, including phosphorus, sulfur, and chlorine. Trained on a new CCSD(T) dataset, the model reduces property errors by factors ranging from 3.8 to 230 compared to various DFT methods while adding only ~25 ms per molecule. Importantly, by deriving properties from a predicted Hamiltonian rather than pooling atomic features, the architecture naturally incorporates correct size‑scaling, enabling accurate extrapolation to large π‑conjugated systems (up to 58 atoms) where traditional pooling‑based models fail.

By Wenhao He, Xu Chen, Noah Song, Haowei Xu, Tim S. Hindges, Bohan Li, Zihan Lin, Yu Yao, Avetik R. Harutyunyan, Fang Liu, Yao Wang, Hao Tang, Ju Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Pushing the limits of one-dimensional NMR spectroscopy for automated structure elucidation using artificial intelligence

arXiv:2512. 18531v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: One-dimensional NMR spectroscopy is one of the most widely used techniques for the characterization of organic compounds and natural products.

By Frank Hu, Jonathan M. Tubb, Dimitris Argyropoulos, Sergey Golotvin, Mikhail Elyashberg, Grant M. Rotskoff, Matthew W. Kanan, Thomas E. Markland
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

HIP: Hessian Interatomic Potentials without derivatives

arXiv:2509.21624v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Molecular Hessians, the second derivatives of the potential energy, are fundamental to many workflows in computational chemistry. Usually, accurate...

By Andreas Burger, Luca Thiede, Nikolaj R{\o}nne, Varinia Bernales, Nandita Vijaykumar, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Alan Aspuru-Guzik
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

WEECFP-SuRGE: A Position-Aware Substructure Encoding Method for Molecular Property Prediction

WEECFP-SuRGE introduces a position‑aware substructure encoding method that combines tokenized hierarchical Morgan fingerprints with graph‑distance‑dependent rotations applied at the input and within transformer self‑attention. The approach captures local chemistry, long‑range interactions, and molecular topology without requiring external pretraining or 3‑D conformer generation. Benchmarks on MoleculeNet and the Therapeutic Data Commons ADMET datasets show competitive performance, and a reconstruction procedure correctly identifies constitutional isomers for 92.6% of a 4,200‑molecule library.

By Robert Epps
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
Oct 21

Ensemble-Aware Structural Encoding (EASE): Conditioning Protein Encoders on Peptide Conformational Ensembles

Ensemble-Aware Structural Encoding (EASE) is a new framework that conditions protein encoders on peptide conformational ensembles rather than single sequences or structures. By selecting central conformers that capture a peptide’s major structural states and fusing their representations with a permutation‑invariant operator, EASE produces a peptide‑level representation that better reflects conformational variability. In evaluations on six peptide property‑prediction tasks, EASE consistently outperforms single‑structure baselines, achieving an average absolute gain of about 3.0% and improving further as more conformers are incorporated.

By Ruoyao Zhang, Hongxuan Li, Jie Peng, Tianlong Chen