BOOM is a new benchmark for evaluating out‑of‑distribution (OOD) molecular property predictions in machine learning. It provides chemically‑informed tests across common property prediction tasks and assesses over 150 model‑task combinations. The study shows that current models, including chemical foundation models, struggle to generalize OOD, with the best model still exhibiting three times higher error than in‑distribution predictions.
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.
The paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate compositional generalisation in machine learning interatomic potentials. It comprises four tasks that test models on unseen molecules, designed so that learning underlying chemical principles should enable generalisation. Experiments show that current state‑of‑the‑art models struggle, with out‑of‑distribution errors often an order of magnitude higher than in‑distribution errors, even for foundation models pre‑trained on millions of molecules.
arXiv:2606. 30170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative molecular design is shaped by simple proxy benchmarks for drug-like properties and models pretrained on large pharmaceutical datasets.
arXiv:2601.00581v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce AceFF, a pre-trained machine learning interatomic potential (MLIP) optimized for small molecule drug discovery. While MLIPs have...
arXiv:2606. 17077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proton dissociation constants (pKa) are critical for functional molecule discovery and molecular modeling.
arXiv:2602. 22822v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is central to small molecule identification, but current deep learning systems for spectrum prediction still remain difficult to evaluate and deploy in practice.
arXiv:2603.03517v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) that rely on in-context learning do not reliably deliver the scientific understanding and perfor...
arXiv:2605.02003v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) has transformed many scientific fields, yet key applications still lack standardized benchmarks. Raman spectroscopy, a widely...
The paper presents a closed‑loop molecule generation pipeline that iteratively retrains on new quantum‑chemical simulation data, overcoming limitations of static generative models. This approach produces molecules whose properties extend up to 0.44 standard deviations beyond the training set and improves out‑of‑distribution classification accuracy by 79%. By conditioning on thermodynamic stability during the loop, the method yields a 3.5‑fold increase in the proportion of stable, potentially synthesizable molecules.
The study compares chemical foundation models (ChemBERTa, MoLFormer) with general‑purpose models (GPT‑6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5) on chemical property prediction tasks. On five physicochemical and quantum‑chemical regression tasks with only 60 experimental datapoints, GPT‑6 Astra outperforms the specialized chemical models. When the chemical models receive ten times more data (1,000–10,000 points), they match GPT‑6 Astra’s performance at 60–1,000 points, indicating that general‑purpose models trained on broad knowledge can be more effective in data‑scarce chemical research.
arXiv:2610.18651v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chemical language models (CLMs) are pretrained on large corpora of molecules with the aim of learning representations that transfer to diverse down...
High-fidelity solubility prediction is fundamental to pharmaceutical development and environmental partitioning, where accurate modeling must couple molecular structure with thermodynamic behavior acr...