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most citedDo Deep Learning Models Really Outperform Traditional Approaches in Molecular Docking?

23 citations · 104 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

Beyond Benchmark Accuracy: A Diagnostic Test for LLM Chemical Prediction

Yanyi Su, Yu Zeng, Hongshuai Wang +3

LLMs have achieved strong performance on chemical prediction benchmarks. However, existing evaluation methods typically provide target entity identity information directly, making…

cs.LG2026

Agentic-MatriBO: Capability-Compiled Agentic Bayesian Optimization for Materials and Chemical Design

Yu Zeng, Yuchuan Chen, Ziyue Zhang +5

Materials and chemical optimization must choose the next synthesis, characterization, or high-fidelity simulation from sequential observations under a limited budget. Large languag…

cs.CL2026

NOSE: Neural Olfactory-Semantic Embedding with Tri-Modal Orthogonal Contrastive Learning

Yanyi Su, Hongshuai Wang, Zhifeng Gao +1

Olfaction lies at the intersection of chemical structure, neural encoding, and linguistic perception, yet existing representation methods fail to fully capture this pathway. Curren…

q-bio.QM2026

ProtoCycle: Reflective Tool-Augmented Planning for Text-Guided Protein Design

Yutang Ge, Guojiang Zhao, Sihang Li +7

Designing proteins that satisfy natural language functional requirements is a central goal in protein engineering. A straightforward baseline is to fine-tune generic instruction-tu…

cs.LG2026

Scaffold-Conditioned Preference Triplets for Controllable Molecular Optimization with Large Language Models

Yi Xiong, Liang Xiong, Xiaohong Ji +4

Molecular property optimization is central to drug discovery, yet many deep learning methods rely on black-box scoring and offer limited control over scaffold preservation, often p…

cs.LG2026

On the Design of One-step Diffusion via Shortcutting Flow Paths

Haitao Lin, Peiyan Hu, Minsi Ren +5

Recent advances in few-step diffusion models have demonstrated their efficiency and effectiveness by shortcutting the probabilistic paths of diffusion models, especially in trainin…

q-bio.BM2025★ 1 cited

Multi-Alignment Contrastive Learning for Enzyme--Reaction Retrieval

Gengmo Zhou, Feng Yu, Wenda Wang +4

Identifying enzymes that catalyze target biochemical reactions is a key step in computational enzyme discovery and biocatalyst design. Recent representation-learning methods formul…

cs.CL2025

Masked-and-Reordered Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards

Zhen Wang, Zhifeng Gao, Guolin Ke

Test-time scaling has been shown to substantially improve large language models' (LLMs) mathematical reasoning. However, for a large portion of mathematical corpora, especially the…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

NMR-Solver: Automated Structure Elucidation via Large-Scale Spectral Matching and Physics-Guided Fragment Optimization

Yongqi Jin, Jun-Jie Wang, Fanjie Xu +6

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful and widely used tools for molecular structure elucidation in organic chemistry. However, the interpretatio…

physics.chem-ph2025

Uni-Mol3: A Multi-Molecular Foundation Model for Advancing Organic Reaction Modeling

Lirong Wu, Junjie Wang, Zhifeng Gao +6

Organic reaction, the foundation of modern chemical industry, is crucial for new material development and drug discovery. However, deciphering reaction mechanisms and modeling mult…

cs.LG2025

MolReasoner: Toward Effective and Interpretable Reasoning for Molecular LLMs

Guojiang Zhao, Zixiang Lu, Yutang Ge +13

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance across various domains, but their ability to perform molecular reasoning remains underexplored. Existing methods most…

cs.LG2025

SynBridge: Bridging Reaction States via Discrete Flow for Bidirectional Reaction Prediction

Haitao Lin, Junjie Wang, Zhifeng Gao +5

The essence of a chemical reaction lies in the redistribution and reorganization of electrons, which is often manifested through electron transfer or the migration of electron pair…

q-bio.BM2025

Beyond Atoms: Enhancing Molecular Pretrained Representations with 3D Space Modeling

Shuqi Lu, Xiaohong Ji, Bohang Zhang +5

Molecular pretrained representations (MPR) has emerged as a powerful approach for addressing the challenge of limited supervised data in applications such as drug discovery and mat…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Unified Cross-Scale 3D Generation and Understanding via Autoregressive Modeling

Shuqi Lu, Haowei Lin, Lin Yao +6

3D structure modeling is essential across scales, enabling applications from fluid simulation and 3D reconstruction to protein folding and molecular docking. Yet, despite shared 3D…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Intelligent System for Automated Molecular Patent Infringement Assessment

Yaorui Shi, Sihang Li, Taiyan Zhang +12

Automated drug discovery offers significant potential for accelerating the development of novel therapeutics by substituting labor-intensive human workflows with machine-driven pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 14 cited

Auto-resolving the atomic structure at van der Waals interfaces using a generative model

Wenqiang Huang, Yuchen Jin, Zhemin Li +12

The high-resolution visualization of atomic structures is significant for understanding the relationship between the microscopic configurations and macroscopic properties of materi…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 2 cited

Uni-ELF: A Multi-Level Representation Learning Framework for Electrolyte Formulation Design

Boshen Zeng, Sian Chen, Xinxin Liu +7

Advancements in lithium battery technology heavily rely on the design and engineering of electrolytes. However, current schemes for molecular design and recipe optimization of elec…

cs.LG2024★ 8 cited

Uni-Mol2: Exploring Molecular Pretraining Model at Scale

Xiaohong Ji, Zhen Wang, Zhifeng Gao +4

In recent years, pretraining models have made significant advancements in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and life sciences. The significant…

q-bio.BM2024★ 7 cited

Uni-Mol Docking V2: Towards Realistic and Accurate Binding Pose Prediction

Eric Alcaide, Zhifeng Gao, Guolin Ke +4

In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have emerged as promising alternatives for molecular docking, offering the potential for high accuracy without incurring prohibitive…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Uni-SMART: Universal Science Multimodal Analysis and Research Transformer

Hengxing Cai, Xiaochen Cai, Shuwen Yang +14

In scientific research and its application, scientific literature analysis is crucial as it allows researchers to build on the work of others. However, the fast growth of scientifi…

cs.CL2024★ 14 cited

SciAssess: Benchmarking LLM Proficiency in Scientific Literature Analysis

Hengxing Cai, Xiaochen Cai, Junhan Chang +20

Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized scientific literature analysis. However, existing benchmarks fail to adequately evaluate the proficiency of…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 6 cited

End-to-End Crystal Structure Prediction from Powder X-Ray Diffraction

Qingsi Lai, Fanjie Xu, Lin Yao +8

Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) is a prevalent technique in materials characterization. While the analysis of PXRD often requires extensive human manual intervention, and most auto…

q-bio.BM2023★ 13 cited

Uni-QSAR: an Auto-ML Tool for Molecular Property Prediction

Zhifeng Gao, Xiaohong Ji, Guojiang Zhao +4

Recently deep learning based quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models has shown surpassing performance than traditional methods for property prediction tasks in d…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 6 cited

Highly Accurate Quantum Chemical Property Prediction with Uni-Mol+

Shuqi Lu, Zhifeng Gao, Di He +2

Recent developments in deep learning have made remarkable progress in speeding up the prediction of quantum chemical (QC) properties by removing the need for expensive electronic s…