Computational Chemistry

GTR-CoT: Graph Traversal as Visual Chain of Thought for Molecular Structure Recognition

Wang et al.'s novel VLM approach using graph traversal CoT and faithful recognition principles to improve optical …...

Computational Chemistry

SubGrapher: Visual Fingerprinting of Chemical Structures

Morin et al.'s method for creating molecular fingerprints directly from images using instance segmentation of functional …...

Computational Chemistry
The transformation from a 2D chemical structure image to a SMILES representation

What is Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR)?

A micro-review of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR), tracing its evolution from rule-based systems to …

Computational Chemistry

αExtractor: Automatic Chemical Information Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Xiong et al.'s deep learning system for extracting chemical structures from literature images using ResNet-Transformer …...

Computational Chemistry

Img2Mol: Accurate SMILES Recognition from Molecular Graphical Depictions

Clevert et al.'s two-stage CNN approach for converting molecular images to SMILES using CDDD embeddings and extensive …...

Computational Chemistry

MolNexTR: A Generalized Deep Learning Model for Molecular Image Recognition

Chen et al.'s dual-stream encoder approach for robust molecular structure recognition from diverse real-world images …...

Document Processing
A colored molecule with annotations, representing the diverse drawing styles found in scientific papers that OCSR models must handle.

MolParser-7M and WildMol Datasets for Robust Chemical Structure Recognition

MolParser-7M is a 7.7M-pair dataset for molecule-to-text conversion, featuring real-world images and complex structures …

Computational Chemistry

MolParser: End-to-end Visual Recognition of Molecule Structures in the Wild

Fang et al.'s method for converting molecular structure images from scientific documents into machine-readable formats …...

Computational Chemistry

DenoiseVAE: Learning Molecule-Adaptive Noise Distributions for Denoising-based 3D Molecular Pre-training

Liu et al.'s ICLR 2025 paper introducing DenoiseVAE, which learns adaptive, atom-specific noise for better molecular …...

Computational Chemistry

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

Lu et al. introduce SpaceFormer, a Transformer that models entire 3D molecular space—not just atoms—for superior …...

Computational Chemistry

Efficient and Scalable Density Functional Theory Hamiltonian Prediction through Adaptive Sparsity

Luo et al. introduce SPHNet, using adaptive sparsity to dramatically improve SE(3)-equivariant Hamiltonian prediction …...

Computational Chemistry

Learning Smooth and Expressive Interatomic Potentials for Physical Property Prediction

Fu et al. propose energy conservation as a key MLIP diagnostic and introduce eSEN, bridging test accuracy and real …...