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most citedLlaSMol: Advancing Large Language Models for Chemistry with a Large-Scale, Comprehensive, High-Quality Instruction Tuning Dataset

15 citations · 24 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

DiffER: Categorical Diffusion for Chemical Retrosynthesis

Sean Current, Ziqi Chen, Daniel Adu-Ampratwum +2

Methods for automatic chemical retrosynthesis have found recent success through the application of models traditionally built for natural language processing, primarily through tra…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Analyzing Fine-Grained Alignment and Enhancing Vision Understanding in Multimodal Language Models

Jiachen Jiang, Jinxin Zhou, Bo Peng +2

Achieving better alignment between vision embeddings and Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing the abilities of Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), particularly for recent mod…

cs.CL2025

Planning with Diffusion Models for Target-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Hanwen Du, Bo Peng, Xia Ning

Target-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) remains a significant challenge in the LLM era, where strategic dialogue planning is crucial for directing conversations toward specific targets. How…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Generating 3D Binding Molecules Using Shape-Conditioned Diffusion Models with Guidance

Ziqi Chen, Bo Peng, Tianhua Zhai +2

Drug development is a critical but notoriously resource- and time-consuming process. In this manuscript, we develop a novel generative artificial intelligence (genAI) method DiffSM…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

ChemToolAgent: The Impact of Tools on Language Agents for Chemistry Problem Solving

Botao Yu, Frazier N. Baker, Ziru Chen +5

To enhance large language models (LLMs) for chemistry problem solving, several LLM-based agents augmented with tools have been proposed, such as ChemCrow and Coscientist. However,…

q-bio.BM2024

log-RRIM: Yield Prediction via Local-to-global Reaction Representation Learning and Interaction Modeling

Xiao Hu, Ziqi Chen, Bo Peng +2

Accurate prediction of chemical reaction yields is crucial for optimizing organic synthesis, potentially reducing time and resources spent on experimentation. With the rise of arti…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Captions Speak Louder than Images: Generalizing Foundation Models for E-commerce from High-quality Multimodal Instruction Data

Xinyi Ling, Hanwen Du, Bo Peng +2

Leveraging multimodal data to drive breakthroughs in e-commerce applications through Multimodal Foundation Models (MFMs) is gaining increasing attention from the research community…

cs.CL2024

SAPIENT: Mastering Multi-turn Conversational Recommendation with Strategic Planning and Monte Carlo Tree Search

Hanwen Du, Bo Peng, Xia Ning

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) proactively engage users in interactive dialogues to elicit user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. Existing methods tra…

cs.AI2024★ 15 cited

LlaSMol: Advancing Large Language Models for Chemistry with a Large-Scale, Comprehensive, High-Quality Instruction Tuning Dataset

Botao Yu, Frazier N. Baker, Ziqi Chen +2

Chemistry plays a crucial role in many domains, such as drug discovery and material science. While large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 exhibit remarkable capabilities on nat…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

eCeLLM: Generalizing Large Language Models for E-commerce from Large-scale, High-quality Instruction Data

Bo Peng, Xinyi Ling, Ziru Chen +2

With tremendous efforts on developing effective e-commerce models, conventional e-commerce models show limited success in generalist e-commerce modeling, and suffer from unsatisfac…

cs.IR2023

Modeling Sequences as Star Graphs to Address Over-smoothing in Self-attentive Sequential Recommendation

Bo Peng, Ziqi Chen, Srinivasan Parthasarathy +1

Self-attention (SA) mechanisms have been widely used in developing sequential recommendation (SR) methods, and demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, in this paper, we…

cs.IR2023

Towards Efficient and Effective Adaptation of Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation

Bo Peng, Ben Burns, Ziqi Chen +2

In recent years, with large language models (LLMs) achieving state-of-the-art performance in context understanding, increasing efforts have been dedicated to developing LLM-enhance…

cs.IR2023

Multi-modality Meets Re-learning: Mitigating Negative Transfer in Sequential Recommendation

Bo Peng, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Xia Ning

Learning effective recommendation models from sparse user interactions represents a fundamental challenge in developing sequential recommendation methods. Recently, pre-training-ba…

cs.LG2023

RLSynC: Offline-Online Reinforcement Learning for Synthon Completion

Frazier N. Baker, Ziqi Chen, Daniel Adu-Ampratwum +1

Retrosynthesis is the process of determining the set of reactant molecules that can react to form a desired product. Semi-template-based retrosynthesis methods, which imitate the r…