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5 papers

cs.AI2026

MolLingo: Molecule-Native Representations for LLM-Powered Scientific Agents

Thao Nguyen, Heng Ji

We present MolLingo, a multi-agent system that emulates the reasoning process of a chemist to automate molecular design. Existing LLM-based approaches either operate as standalone…

cs.LG2026

FARM: Enhancing Molecular Representations with Functional Group Awareness

Thao Nguyen, Kuan-Hao Huang, Ge Liu +3

We introduce Functional Group-Aware Representations for Small Molecules (FARM), a novel foundation model designed to bridge the gap between SMILES, natural language, and molecular…

cs.LG2026

ProteinZero: Self-Improving Protein Generation via Online Reinforcement Learning

Ziwen Wang, Jiajun Fan, Ruihan Guo +3

Protein generative models have shown remarkable promise in protein design, yet their success rates remain constrained by reliance on curated sequence-structure datasets and by misa…

cs.AI2026

mCLM: A Modular Chemical Language Model that Generates Functional and Makeable Molecules

Carl Edwards, Chi Han, Gawon Lee +11

Despite their ability to understand chemical knowledge, large language models (LLMs) remain limited in their capacity to propose novel molecules with desired functions (e.g., drug-…

cs.LG2025

Variational Supervised Contrastive Learning

Ziwen Wang, Jiajun Fan, Thao Nguyen +2

Contrastive learning has proven to be highly efficient and adaptable in shaping representation spaces across diverse modalities by pulling similar samples together and pushing diss…