
RFL: Simplifying Chemical Structure Recognition (AAAI 2025)
Proposes Ring-Free Language (RFL) to hierarchically decouple molecular graphs into skeletons, rings, and branches, solving issues with 1D serialization of complex 2D structures. Introduces the Molecular Skeleton Decoder (MSD) to progressively predict these components, achieving strong results on handwritten and printed chemical structure recognition benchmarks.

