arXiv:2607. 17033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting the outcomes of transition-metal-catalyzed reactions is notoriously complex due to the interplay of diverse physical and chemical variables.
By Qiwei Han, Chi Zhou
arXiv:2607. 05736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular property prediction often relies on isolated data modalities, where continuous 3D graph neural networks (GNNs) struggle to efficiently capture long-range topological dependencies and exact macroscopic heuristics.
By Qiwei Han, Chi Zhou, Ruobing Wang, Zheng Ma
arXiv:2501. 12434v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motivation: Retrosynthesis plays a crucial role in organic synthesis and drug discovery, focusing on identifying a set of reactants capable of synthesizing a target product molecule.
By Jiaxi Zhuang, Yu Zhang, Ying Qian, Aimin Zhou
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
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
ChemVTS-Bench is a domain-authentic benchmark that evaluates Visual‑Textual‑Symbolic reasoning in multimodal large language models for chemistry. It presents diverse chemical problems—organic molecules, inorganic materials, and 3D crystal structures—in three input modes: visual-only, visual‑text hybrid, and SMILES-based symbolic. The benchmark includes an automated agent workflow for inference, answer verification, and failure diagnosis, and shows that visual-only inputs and structural chemistry remain challenging for current models.
By Zhiyuan Huang, Baichuan Yang, Zikun He, Yanhong Wu, Fang Hongyu, Zhenhe Liu, Lin Dongsheng, Bing Su
arXiv:2602. 13136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Template-free retrosynthesis methods treat the task as black-box sequence generation, limiting learning efficiency, while semi-template approaches rely on rigid reaction libraries that constrain generalization.
By Chenguang Wang, Zihan Zhou, Lei Bai, Tianshu Yu
Mol-JEPA is a scalable multimodal framework that learns molecular world models by using modality masking instead of suboptimal perturbations. It incorporates diverse data such as molecular structures, cellular phenotypes, binding affinities, ADMET profiles, quantum chemistry simulations, and other drug‑discovery information. Benchmarks show that the representations it learns perform strongly, highlighting the benefit of embedding biochemical context via latent‑space prediction.
By Florian Rottach, Sebastian Schieferdecker, William Rudman, Randall Balestriero, Carsten Eickhoff
arXiv:2607. 20551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective molecular representation learning is crucial for accurate molecular property prediction.
By Tianming Han, Li Zhang, Qi Zhao
arXiv:2607. 01982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using molecular large language models (LLMs) as a unified framework for understanding molecular structures and functions is emerging as a new trend in tasks such as molecular design and drug discovery.
By Wenda Wang, Yihan Tong, Yuwei Hu, Zhewei Wei
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
Local chemical perception and property reasoning are both essential for understanding how molecular structure determines properties. Current LLM-based chemical reasoning methods either receive SMILES/molecular images together with descriptions of local motifs, or reason directly from molecular images.