Computational Chemistry
Adaptive grid merging visualization for benzene molecule showing multi-resolution spatial discretization

Beyond Atoms: 3D Space Modeling for Molecular Pretraining

ICML 2025 paper introducing SpaceFormer, a Transformer architecture that challenges the atom-centric paradigm by modeling the continuous 3D space surrounding molecules using adaptive multi-resolution grids, ranking first in 10 of 15 molecular property prediction tasks.