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MAST framework enhances molecular structure elucidation from spectra

Researchers have developed MAST, a novel diffusion-based framework designed to improve the elucidation of molecular structures from spectroscopic data. MAST incorporates explicit motif priors during the denoising process to enhance the learning of spectra-structure relationships, particularly when dealing with limited paired data. Additionally, it reframes diffusion sampling as a reward-guided tree search to efficiently identify high-quality molecular candidates. The framework demonstrated strong performance on the QM9S benchmark, achieving 94.89% exact recovery and improving 3D fidelity while maintaining chemical validity. AI

IMPACT This research could accelerate chemical and materials characterization by improving the accuracy and efficiency of determining molecular structures from spectroscopic data.

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MAST framework enhances molecular structure elucidation from spectra

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chenghao Jia, Mengdi Liu, Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen ·

    MAST: Motif-Augmented Diffusion with Search Tree for Spectroscopic Molecular Structure Elucidation

    arXiv:2610.12067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Elucidating molecular structures from spectra is a foundational problem in chemical and materials characterization, yet remains challenging due to spectral ambiguity and the vast molecular space. Although recent diffusion-based ge…