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LLMs evaluated for advanced chemistry tasks with new benchmarks

Researchers have developed new benchmarks and methods to evaluate and enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) for chemistry-related tasks. One approach, Speak-to-Structure (S^2-Bench), focuses on open-domain molecule generation, moving beyond simple one-to-one mappings to assess creative and diverse molecular design capabilities. Another method introduces atom-anchored LLMs that use unique atomic identifiers to anchor chain-of-thought reasoning for molecular transformations, achieving high success rates in tasks like retrosynthesis without requiring task-specific training. AI

IMPACT New benchmarks and methods are emerging to push LLMs towards more complex scientific reasoning in chemistry.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains two academic papers introducing new methods and benchmarks for LLMs in chemistry.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiatong Li, Junxian Li, Weida Wang, Yunqing Liu, Changmeng Zheng, Yatao Bian, Dongzhan Zhou, Xiao-yong Wei, Qing Li ·

    Speak-to-Structure: Evaluating LLMs in Open-domain Natural Language-Driven Molecule Generation

    arXiv:2412.14642v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential in natural language-driven molecule discovery. However, existing datasets and benchmarks for molecule-text alignment are predominantly built on one-to-one …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Alan Kai Hassen, Andrius Bernatavicius, Antonius P. A. Janssen, Mike Preuss, Gerard J. P. van Westen, Djork-Arn\'e Clevert ·

    Atom-anchored LLMs speak Chemistry: A Retrosynthesis Demonstration

    arXiv:2510.16590v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Applications of machine learning in chemistry are often limited by the scarcity and expense of labeled data, restricting traditional supervised methods. In this work, we introduce a framework for molecular reasoning using genera…