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most citedLearning to Plan Chemical Syntheses

2k citations · 3.4k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.LG2025

A Scientific Reasoning Model for Organic Synthesis Procedure Generation

Guoqing Liu, Junren Li, Zihan Zhao +7

Solving computer-aided synthesis planning is essential for enabling fully automated, robot-assisted synthesis workflows and improving the efficiency of drug discovery. A key challe…

physics.chem-ph2025

Accurate Chemistry Collection: Coupled cluster atomization energies for broad chemical space

Sebastian Ehlert, Jan Hermann, Thijs Vogels +11

Accurate thermochemical data with sub-chemical accuracy (within 1 kcal mol of the empirical ground truth) are essential for advancing computational chemistry methods. Howeve…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

UniGenX: a unified generative foundation model that couples sequence, structure and function to accelerate scientific design across proteins, molecules and materials

Gongbo Zhang, Yanting Li, Renqian Luo +31

Function in natural systems arises from one-dimensional sequences forming three-dimensional structures with specific properties. However, current generative models suffer from crit…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Nature Language Model: Deciphering the Language of Nature for Scientific Discovery

Yingce Xia, Peiran Jin, Shufang Xie +43

Foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing and artificial intelligence, significantly enhancing how machines comprehend and generate human languages. Inspire…

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★ 3 cited

Chemist-aligned retrosynthesis by ensembling diverse inductive bias models

Krzysztof Maziarz, Guoqing Liu, Hubert Misztela +8

Chemical synthesis remains a critical bottleneck in the discovery and manufacture of functional small molecules. AI-based synthesis planning models could be a potential remedy to f…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

RetroGFN: Diverse and Feasible Retrosynthesis using GFlowNets

Piotr Gaiński, Michał Koziarski, Krzysztof Maziarz +3

Single-step retrosynthesis aims to predict a set of reactions that lead to the creation of a target molecule, which is a crucial task in molecular discovery. Although a target mole…

q-bio.BM2024★ 5 cited

Generative Active Learning for the Search of Small-molecule Protein Binders

Maksym Korablyov, Cheng-Hao Liu, Moksh Jain +31

Despite substantial progress in machine learning for scientific discovery in recent years, truly de novo design of small molecules which exhibit a property of interest remains a si…

cs.LG2024★ 12 cited

SynFlowNet: Design of Diverse and Novel Molecules with Synthesis Constraints

Miruna Cretu, Charles Harris, Ilia Igashov +6

Generative models see increasing use in computer-aided drug design. However, while performing well at capturing distributions of molecular motifs, they often produce synthetically…

cs.LG2023★ 37 cited

Re-evaluating Retrosynthesis Algorithms with Syntheseus

Krzysztof Maziarz, Austin Tripp, Guoqing Liu +5

Automated Synthesis Planning has recently re-emerged as a research area at the intersection of chemistry and machine learning. Despite the appearance of steady progress, we argue t…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Retro-fallback: retrosynthetic planning in an uncertain world

Austin Tripp, Krzysztof Maziarz, Sarah Lewis +2

Retrosynthesis is the task of planning a series of chemical reactions to create a desired molecule from simpler, buyable molecules. While previous works have proposed algorithms to…

q-bio.QM2023★ 4 cited

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

Ilia Igashov, Arne Schneuing, Marwin Segler +2

Retrosynthesis planning is a fundamental challenge in chemistry which aims at designing reaction pathways from commercially available starting materials to a target molecule. Each…

cs.LG2023

Are VAEs Bad at Reconstructing Molecular Graphs?

Hagen Muenkler, Hubert Misztela, Michal Pikusa +3

Many contemporary generative models of molecules are variational auto-encoders of molecular graphs. One term in their training loss pertains to reconstructing the input, yet recons…

cs.AI2023★ 5 cited

Retrosynthetic Planning with Dual Value Networks

Guoqing Liu, Di Xue, Shufang Xie +7

Retrosynthesis, which aims to find a route to synthesize a target molecule from commercially available starting materials, is a critical task in drug discovery and materials design…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Modern Hopfield Networks for Few- and Zero-Shot Reaction Template Prediction

Philipp Seidl, Philipp Renz, Natalia Dyubankova +6

Finding synthesis routes for molecules of interest is an essential step in the discovery of new drugs and materials. To find such routes, computer-assisted synthesis planning (CASP…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Barking up the right tree: an approach to search over molecule synthesis DAGs

John Bradshaw, Brooks Paige, Matt J. Kusner +2

When designing new molecules with particular properties, it is not only important what to make but crucially how to make it. These instructions form a synthesis directed acyclic gr…

cs.LG2020★ 118 cited

Molecular representation learning with language models and domain-relevant auxiliary tasks

Benedek Fabian, Thomas Edlich, Héléna Gaspar +4

We apply a Transformer architecture, specifically BERT, to learn flexible and high quality molecular representations for drug discovery problems. We study the impact of using diffe…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

RetroGNN: Approximating Retrosynthesis by Graph Neural Networks for De Novo Drug Design

Cheng-Hao Liu, Maksym Korablyov, Stanisław Jastrzębski +3

De novo molecule generation often results in chemically unfeasible molecules. A natural idea to mitigate this problem is to bias the search process towards more easily synthesizabl…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

World Programs for Model-Based Learning and Planning in Compositional State and Action Spaces

Marwin H. S. Segler

Some of the most important tasks take place in environments which lack cheap and perfect simulators, thus hampering the application of model-free reinforcement learning (RL). While…

cs.LG2019★ 21 cited

A Model to Search for Synthesizable Molecules

John Bradshaw, Brooks Paige, Matt J. Kusner +2

Deep generative models are able to suggest new organic molecules by generating strings, trees, and graphs representing their structure. While such models allow one to generate mole…

cs.LG2018★ 53 cited

DEFactor: Differentiable Edge Factorization-based Probabilistic Graph Generation

Rim Assouel, Mohamed Ahmed, Marwin H Segler +2

Generating novel molecules with optimal properties is a crucial step in many industries such as drug discovery. Recently, deep generative models have shown a promising way of perfo…

q-bio.QM2018★ 845 cited

GuacaMol: Benchmarking Models for De Novo Molecular Design

Nathan Brown, Marco Fiscato, Marwin H. S. Segler +1

De novo design seeks to generate molecules with required property profiles by virtual design-make-test cycles. With the emergence of deep learning and neural generative models in m…

physics.chem-ph2018

A Generative Model For Electron Paths

John Bradshaw, Matt J. Kusner, Brooks Paige +2

Chemical reactions can be described as the stepwise redistribution of electrons in molecules. As such, reactions are often depicted using `arrow-pushing' diagrams which show this m…

cs.AI2017★ 2k cited

Learning to Plan Chemical Syntheses

Marwin H. S. Segler, Mike Preuss, Mark P. Waller

From medicines to materials, small organic molecules are indispensable for human well-being. To plan their syntheses, chemists employ a problem solving technique called retrosynthe…