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20172026
most citedAutonomous discovery in the chemical sciences part I: Progress

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cs.LG2026

GLACIER: Rethinking Mass Spectrum Prediction as an Object Detection Problem

Rui-Xi Wang, Runzhong Wang, Connor W. Coley

Predicting tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) from molecular structures represents a central task in analytical chemistry with direct relevance to clinical metabolomics, systems biology,…

cs.LG2026

MassSpecGym in the Wild: Uncovering and Correcting Evaluation Pitfalls in AI-Driven Molecule Discovery

Hongxuan Liu, Roman Bushuiev, Ivy Lightheart +12

Reliable benchmarking is critical for developing machine learning models for tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) based molecule discovery. Subtle issues in experimental design and mod…

cs.LG2026

FRIGID: Scaling Diffusion-Based Molecular Generation from Mass Spectra at Training and Inference Time

Montgomery Bohde, Hongxuan Liu, Mrunali Manjrekar +4

Tandem mass spectrometry is prominent in scientific discovery workflows for identifying unknown small molecules, yet high-throughput structural elucidation remains challenging. Whi…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Efficient and Programmable Exploration of Synthesizable Chemical Space

Shitong Luo, Connor W. Coley

The constrained nature of synthesizable chemical space poses a significant challenge for sampling molecules that are both synthetically accessible and possess desired properties. I…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Genetic Algorithm for Navigating Synthesizable Molecular Spaces

Alston Lo, Connor W. Coley, Wojciech Matusik

Inspired by the effectiveness of genetic algorithms and the importance of synthesizability in molecular design, we present SynGA, a simple genetic algorithm that operates directly…

cs.LG2025★ 6 cited

Anticipating the Selectivity of Intramolecular Cyclization Reaction Pathways with Neural Network Potentials

Nicholas Casetti, Dylan Anstine, Olexandr Isayev +1

Reaction mechanism search tools have demonstrated the ability to provide insights into likely products and rate-limiting steps of reacting systems. However, reactions involving sev…

cs.LG2025

The impact of conformer quality on learned representations of molecular conformer ensembles

Keir Adams, Connor W. Coley

Training machine learning models to predict properties of molecular conformer ensembles is an increasingly popular strategy to accelerate the conformational analysis of drug-like s…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Electron flow matching for generative reaction mechanism prediction obeying conservation laws

Joonyoung F. Joung, Mun Hong Fong, Nicholas Casetti +3

Central to our understanding of chemical reactivity is the principle of mass conservation, which is fundamental for ensuring physical consistency, balancing equations, and guiding…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Neural Graph Matching Improves Retrieval Augmented Generation in Molecular Machine Learning

Runzhong Wang, Rui-Xi Wang, Mrunali Manjrekar +1

Molecular machine learning has gained popularity with the advancements of geometric deep learning. In parallel, retrieval-augmented generation has become a principled approach comm…

cs.LG2025★ 10 cited

DiffMS: Diffusion Generation of Molecules Conditioned on Mass Spectra

Montgomery Bohde, Mrunali Manjrekar, Runzhong Wang +2

Mass spectrometry plays a fundamental role in elucidating the structures of unknown molecules and subsequent scientific discoveries. One formulation of the structure elucidation ta…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Challenging reaction prediction models to generalize to novel chemistry

John Bradshaw, Anji Zhang, Babak Mahjour +3

Deep learning models for anticipating the products of organic reactions have found many use cases, including validating retrosynthetic pathways and constraining synthesis-based mol…

cs.LG2024★ 13 cited

Generative Artificial Intelligence for Navigating Synthesizable Chemical Space

Wenhao Gao, Shitong Luo, Connor W. Coley

We introduce SynFormer, a generative modeling framework designed to efficiently explore and navigate synthesizable chemical space. Unlike traditional molecular generation approache…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Batched Bayesian optimization by maximizing the probability of including the optimum

Jenna Fromer, Runzhong Wang, Mrunali Manjrekar +3

Batched Bayesian optimization (BO) can accelerate molecular design by efficiently identifying top-performing compounds from a large chemical library. Existing acquisition strategie…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

OpenChemIE: An Information Extraction Toolkit For Chemistry Literature

Vincent Fan, Yujie Qian, Alex Wang +3

Information extraction from chemistry literature is vital for constructing up-to-date reaction databases for data-driven chemistry. Complete extraction requires combining informati…

cs.LG2024

Beyond Major Product Prediction: Reproducing Reaction Mechanisms with Machine Learning Models Trained on a Large-Scale Mechanistic Dataset

Joonyoung F. Joung, Mun Hong Fong, Jihye Roh +3

Mechanistic understanding of organic reactions can facilitate reaction development, impurity prediction, and in principle, reaction discovery. While several machine learning models…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Learning Over Molecular Conformer Ensembles: Datasets and Benchmarks

Yanqiao Zhu, Jeehyun Hwang, Keir Adams +10

Molecular Representation Learning (MRL) has proven impactful in numerous biochemical applications such as drug discovery and enzyme design. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are e…

cs.LG2023★ 16 cited

Artificial Intelligence for Science in Quantum, Atomistic, and Continuum Systems

Xuan Zhang, Limei Wang, Jacob Helwig +60

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are fueling a new paradigm of discoveries in natural sciences. Today, AI has started to advance natural sciences by improving, accelerating…

cs.LG2022★ 155 cited

A graph representation of molecular ensembles for polymer property prediction

Matteo Aldeghi, Connor W. Coley

Synthetic polymers are versatile and widely used materials. Similar to small organic molecules, a large chemical space of such materials is hypothetically accessible. Computational…

cs.LG2021

Bringing Atomistic Deep Learning to Prime Time

Nathan C. Frey, Siddharth Samsi, Bharath Ramsundar +2

Artificial intelligence has not yet revolutionized the design of materials and molecules. In this perspective, we identify four barriers preventing the integration of atomistic dee…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Scalable Geometric Deep Learning on Molecular Graphs

Nathan C. Frey, Siddharth Samsi, Joseph McDonald +3

Deep learning in molecular and materials sciences is limited by the lack of integration between applied science, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing. Bottleneck…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Permutation invariant graph-to-sequence model for template-free retrosynthesis and reaction prediction

Zhengkai Tu, Connor W. Coley

Synthesis planning and reaction outcome prediction are two fundamental problems in computer-aided organic chemistry for which a variety of data-driven approaches have emerged. Natu…

cs.LG2021★ 18 cited

Learning 3D Representations of Molecular Chirality with Invariance to Bond Rotations

Keir Adams, Lagnajit Pattanaik, Connor W. Coley

Molecular chirality, a form of stereochemistry most often describing relative spatial arrangements of bonded neighbors around tetrahedral carbon centers, influences the set of 3D c…

cs.LG2021★ 20 cited

Amortized Tree Generation for Bottom-up Synthesis Planning and Synthesizable Molecular Design

Wenhao Gao, Rocío Mercado, Connor W. Coley

Molecular design and synthesis planning are two critical steps in the process of molecular discovery that we propose to formulate as a single shared task of conditional synthetic p…

cs.LG2021★ 20 cited

Differentiable Scaffolding Tree for Molecular Optimization

Tianfan Fu, Wenhao Gao, Cao Xiao +3

The structural design of functional molecules, also called molecular optimization, is an essential chemical science and engineering task with important applications, such as drug d…