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:2605. 26833v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Polymers underpin applications across energy, healthcare, and materials science, yet their vast chemical space makes systematic discovery challenging.
By Yasharth Yadav, Tze Kwang Gerald Er, Atsushi Goto, Kelin Xia
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:2510. 16023v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Linear polymers, macromolecules formed from monomers covalently bonded into continuous chains, underpin countless technologies and are indispensable to modern life.
By Fanmeng Wang, Ruochao Wang, Shan Mei, Wentao Guo, Hongshuai Wang, Qi Ou, Zhifeng Gao, Hongteng Xu
arXiv:2608. 01431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Polymer property prediction and inverse generative design targeting desired properties are two crucial tasks in machine learning-assisted polymer design.
By Charlie Pyle, Adarsh Gadari, C. Adrian Figg, Zhenquan Jia, Yaohang Li, Chunjiang Zhu
Polymer property prediction and inverse generative design targeting desired properties are two crucial tasks in machine learning-assisted polymer design. While the former has received considerable attention, there have been limited methods developed for the latter.
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
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
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:2607. 29256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing polyimide structures with specific glass transition temperatures (Tg) is highly challenging.
By Junquan Hu, Zhihui Wang, Peng Xu, Xinru Guo, Xintong Li, Kun Lu, Ben Fei
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
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