arXiv AI
Jun 9
RetroReasoner: A Reasoning LLM for Strategic Retrosynthesis Prediction
arXiv:2603. 12666v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis prediction aims to identify reactants that can synthesize a given product molecule.
Retro-Expert: Collaborative Reasoning for Interpretable Retrosynthesis
arXiv:2508. 10967v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis prediction aims to infer the reactant molecules based on a given product molecule, which is a fundamental task in chemical synthesis.
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Learning Mechanistic Reasoning for Chemical Reactions with Large Language Models
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Jul 17
RetroAgent: Harnessing LLMs to Search Over Structured Memory for Agentic Retrosynthesis Planning
arXiv:2607. 14512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step retrosynthesis planning seeks to decompose a target molecule into commercially available building blocks through a sequence of feasible reactions.
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Jul 7
URSA: Chemistry-Aware Benchmark for Utilitarian Retrosynthesis Assessment
arXiv:2607. 04688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthesis planning aiming to find pathways of reactions for a target molecule is one of the most important and challenging tasks in drug discovery.
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From Answers to States: Verifiable Process-Level Evaluation of Chemical Reasoning in Large Language Models
arXiv:2606. 03660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as chemistry assistants, yet most chemistry benchmarks still score only final answers.
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Jun 2
When Single Answer Is Not Enough: Rethinking Single-Step Retrosynthesis Benchmarks for LLMs
arXiv:2602. 03554v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress has expanded the use of large language models (LLMs) in drug discovery, including synthesis planning.
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Jul 2
Agentic generation of verifiable rules for deterministic, self-expanding reaction classification
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arXiv AI
Aug 10
Strategy-first synthesis planning for complex natural products
arXiv:2608. 07454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The total synthesis of a complex molecule is among the most demanding intellectual and experimental feats in chemistry: a chemist must plan many steps ahead for how to assemble simple building blocks into an intricate target, devise backup strategies, and anticipate procedural challenges.
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RetroMPA: A Molecular Property-Aware Auxiliary Framework for Enhancing Retrosynthesis Prediction
arXiv:2608. 16111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis is a cornerstone of drug discovery and organic synthesis.
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From Reasoning Traces to Reusable Modules: Understanding Compositional Generalization in Language Model Reasoning
arXiv:2606. 18089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training pipelines that combine supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with reinforcement learning (RL) have emerged as the key recipe for transforming large language models (LLMs) into robust reasoners.
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LatentChem: From Textual CoT to Latent Thinking in Chemical Reasoning
arXiv:2602. 07075v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current chemical large language models (LLMs) predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to solve complex reasoning problems.
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My Chemical Harness: Evolutionary Molecular Design over Synthetic Pathways with Large Language Model Agents
arXiv:2606. 11256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing molecules with target properties is most useful when candidate structures are accompanied by feasible synthetic routes.