arXiv AI

HiPoly: a hierarchical polymer-native AI framework for property prediction and generative design

HiPoly is a polymer-native AI framework that uses a three-level hierarchical graph architecture built on the G2RINS representation to process complete polymer descriptions. It encodes stochastic inter-monomer connectivity, composition, and molecular weight directly within its architecture, enabling end-to-end workflows from experimental data to property prediction, generative design, and physics-based validation. The framework achieves state-of-the-art accuracy for thermophysical properties of multi-component polymer systems and demonstrates generative design by discovering sustainable, PFAS-free alternatives with target surface-energy properties.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

Empowering Polymeric Materials Discovery by Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2606. 20753v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Polymeric materials underpin modern technologies spanning energy storage, microelectronics, healthcare and sustainable manufacturing.

By Chenyao Ma, Linda Zhang, Yuheng Chen, Wei Du, Shangwen Fang, Zihao Jiang, Chuanyu Liu, Xinyu Ma, Rui Su, Gang Wang, Muyao Yu, Dong Zhong, Jie Zhu, Weibo Gong, Huan Gu, Limin Li, Chen Shen, Rui Wu, Zhenghao Wu, Kan Xu, Min Zhou, Donglin He, Xiayun Huang, Shan Jiang, Pengfei Ou, Jiayu Peng, Yuwei Zhang, Jie Zhao, Di Zhang, Piao Ma, Zhenghao Li, Hao Li
arXiv AI
Sep 24

An open benchmark for machine learning-based polymer property prediction

The article introduces PolyBench26, an open benchmark dataset for polymer property prediction that contains nearly 250,000 datapoints covering eight physical properties from experimental, DFT, and MD sources. It supports four evaluation tasks—property prediction, dataset-size scaling, repeat‑unit complexity, and transfer learning—across homopolymers and various copolymer architectures. The study compares language, graph, and descriptor models, finding graph-based approaches achieve the lowest errors and maintain robustness across training sizes and repeat‑unit complexity.

By Robert W. Learsch, Nicholas Liesen, Daniel S. Levine, Anna M. Hiszpanski, Evan R. Antoniuk
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

Molecular representation shapes the balance between target fidelity and exploration in flow based polymer generation

The paper introduces PolyLatentFlow, a continuous‑time flow‑matching framework for polymer generation, and LlamaUni, a multimodal representation that fuses polymer sequences with 3D structural data. In unconditional generation, the combination yields the highest number of valid, novel candidates while preserving diversity, and in conditional settings it systematically shifts property distributions across a 200 °C target range. Across multi‑property tasks, the representation choice affects validity, training‑set replay, and structural proximity, with PolyLatentFlow + LlamaUni achieving the best balance of high validity, low replay, and high target hit yield.

By Tianren Zhang
arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 7

Towards AI-Driven Nanomedicine Discovery: A Benchmark and Multimodal Learning Framework for Nano Self-Assembly Prediction

The paper introduces NSA-Bench, a public benchmark for predicting nano self‑assembly (NSA) between molecular pairs, framing it as a binary classification problem. It presents NSA‑Net, a multimodal learning framework that fuses graph topology, sequence semantics, and physicochemical descriptors to predict self‑assembly, achieving high ROC‑AUC scores and outperforming existing baselines. The study also demonstrates how NSA‑Net’s predictions can guide experimental formulation refinement through an NSA‑Agent case study.

By Quan Hao, Mengyue Fan, Zifan Dong, Jianduo Zhao, Changhao Xiao, Shangqing Jiao, Hao Zhang, Yudong Wang, Fei Xia, Jigang Wang, Liguo Zhang, Chong Qiu
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Understanding Structural Representation in Foundation Models for Polymers

The paper introduces a chemical language foundation model that uses a SMILES‑based polymer graph representation (CPG) to encode polymer architecture and connectivity, addressing gaps in existing line notations. The model achieves strong performance across 30 polymer property benchmarks and demonstrates robustness to structural representation perturbations, with even chemically invalid SMILES sometimes matching state‑of‑the‑art results. Control experiments and attention analyses confirm that CPG offers meaningful advantages while highlighting the model’s ability to interpolate SMILES sequence space in a way that aligns loosely with chemical and architectural space.

By Nathaniel H. Park, Eduardo Soares, Victor Y. Shirasuna, Tiffany J. Callahan, Sara Capponi, Emilio Vital Brazil
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

Generative molecule evolution using 3D pharmacophore for efficient Structure-Based Drug Design

The paper introduces MEVO, a generative molecular evolutionary framework that operates within a synthesizable chemical space for structure‑based drug design. MEVO uses a reaction‑aware generative model trained on reaction templates applied to Enamine Building Blocks, jointly producing molecules and synthesis sketches. The framework iteratively refines these molecules using a pocket‑aware evolutionary strategy guided by a hierarchical scoring function that combines fast approximations with rigorous Absolute Binding Free Energy Perturbation calculations, enabling the design of high‑affinity, synthetically feasible binders for diverse protein targets such as KRAS$^{ extrm{G12D}}$.

By Yi He, Ailun Wang, Zhi Wang, Yu Liu, Xingyuan Xu, Wen Yan
arXiv AI
Sep 15

El Agente Potente: High-Throughput Agentic Atomistic Simulations

El Agente Potente is an agentic system that integrates typed execution graphs and a coding mode to facilitate machine‑learning interatomic potential (MLIP) driven atomistic simulations. Typed execution graphs offer structured, provenance‑aware workflows where large language models handle planning and routing while deterministic Python code performs scientific computation and validation. The coding agent builds customized workflows for tasks needing procedural flexibility, invoking existing Potente functions for supported calculations. The system is demonstrated across materials discovery, energy‑landscape exploration, adsorption, and catalytic reaction workflows, with benchmarks on reproducibility and LLM token cost.

By Tsz Wai Ko, Jiaru Bai, Thomas Swanick, Yeonghun Kang, Changhyeok Choi, Angelina Qihong Jiang, Aiwei Yin, Varinia Bernales, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik