MAST: Motif-Augmented Diffusion with Search Tree for Spectroscopic Molecular Structure Elucidation
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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.
arXiv:2604. 16648v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tandem mass spectrometry is prominent in scientific discovery workflows for identifying unknown small molecules, yet high-throughput structural elucidation remains challenging.
arXiv:2512. 19733v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular structure elucidation from spectroscopic data is a long-standing challenge in Chemistry, traditionally requiring expert interpretation.
arXiv:2607. 26164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated molecular structure elucidation from infrared (IR) spectroscopy data has seen significant advancements in recent years, but its broad applicability is limited by a reliance on pre-determined chemical formulas provided as auxiliary model inputs.
arXiv:2607. 04774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Untargeted tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) detects thousands of small molecules per biological sample, yet most go unidentified because they are absent from spectral libraries.
The paper introduces DiffGCMS, a discrete graph diffusion model that generates molecular structures directly from GC–EI–MS spectra, and couples it with a large language model for post‑processing. In the first stage, DiffGCMS produces candidate structures; the LLM then validates, repairs, and reranks these candidates while offering interpretable explanations of fragment‑ion peaks. On a large NIST 20 test set, the combined approach improves accuracy and ensures 100% candidate validity for small molecules, demonstrating the value of spectrum‑aware post‑processing.