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
MolEmb is a lightweight framework that adapts multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to serve as general molecular embedding models. By aligning molecular profiles with textual descriptions in a shared embedding space using a bidirectional contrastive objective, MolEmb produces embeddings conditioned on both a molecular profile and a natural‑language semantic context. The model performs competitively on molecular property prediction and enables cross‑modal molecule‑text retrieval, while the newly introduced MolCAR benchmark demonstrates that context‑aware molecular embedding is largely a data property of the supervision.
By Xinjian Zhao, Xiangru Jian, Yaoyao Xu, Xiaozhuang Song, Wei Pang, Lei Bai, Tianshu Yu
arXiv:2607. 03007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in molecular large language models have led to strong performance on molecular understanding and generation tasks, yet these gains often come without reliable structural grounding.
By Wenda Wang, Jinjia Feng, Zhewei Wei
arXiv:2606. 11508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) properties is critical to drug discovery, but remains challenging because ADME endpoints are noisy, interdependent, and often data-limited.
By Yifan Xue, Srimukh Prasad Veccham, Saee Paliwal, Tyler Shimko, Micha Livne
arXiv:2607. 02212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aqueous solubility is a key property in early-stage drug discovery, but most predictive models merge physicochemical descriptors and molecular graph information into a single representation, obscuring whether a prediction is driven by global chemistry, molecular structure, or both.
By Sampreeti Bhattacharya, Arkaprava Roy
arXiv:2608. 03855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), and text-based molecular representations like SMILES have successfully extended these architectures to chemistry.
By David Ming Segura, Jeremy Goumaz, Joshua W. Sin, Bojana Rankovi\'c, Philippe Schwaller
ChemMLLM is a unified chemical multimodal large language model designed for molecule understanding and generation across text, SMILES strings, and images. The authors curated five multimodal tasks and benchmarked ChemMLLM against leading general MLLMs, chemical LLMs, and specialized models, finding it outperforms general-purpose MLLMs and matches specialized models on all tasks. The study demonstrates that a single foundation model can handle diverse cross‑modal chemical tasks, including image generation, enabling more intuitive visual human‑AI interaction.
By Qian Tan, Di Zhang, Ben Gao, Peng Xia, Wanhao Liu, Shufei Zhang, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai, Yuqiang Li, Tianfan Fu
arXiv:2606. 03057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for molecular tasks, but it remains unclear which molecular representation to use.
By Arun Raja, Garrett M. Morris, Kian Ming A. Chai
arXiv:2606. 05693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for molecular property prediction, but their ability to reason over chemical structures remains limited, as molecular representations such as SMILES differ substantially from the natural language on which LLMs are primarily trained.
By Joey Chan, Wonbin Kweon, Ashley Shin, Niharika Bhattacharjee, Pengcheng Jiang, Yue Guo, Jiawei Han
arXiv:2509. 22468v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-quality molecular representations are essential for property prediction and molecular design, yet large labeled datasets remain scarce.
By Boshra Ariguib, Mathias Niepert, Andrei Manolache
arXiv:2606. 29161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) from molecular structures represents a central task in analytical chemistry with direct relevance to clinical metabolomics, systems biology, and adjacent disciplines.
By Rui-Xi Wang, Runzhong Wang, Connor W. Coley
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