arXiv:2512.12489cs.LG2025-12

用子结构图建模分子空间关系,提升大分子属性预测效果

GoMS: Graph of Molecule Substructure Network for Molecule Property Prediction

  • 将分子子结构构造成图,节点表子结构,边表其空间关系
  • 在超100原子的大分子上性能显著优于现有方法,差距随分子增大而扩大
  • 适合材料科学中复杂分子的性质预测,可区分结构相似但排列不同的分子

尽管图神经网络在分子属性预测中表现优异,但当前方法如等变子图聚合网络(ESAN)将分子视为独立子结构的集合,忽略了这些组件间的关联。我们提出分子子结构图(GoMS),显式建模子结构之间的相互作用与空间排列。与基于集合的表示不同,GoMS构建一个图结构:节点代表子图,边表示其结构关系,从而保留子结构在分子内连接与重叠的关键拓扑信息。在多个公开分子数据集上的大量实验表明,GoMS在性能上超越了ESAN及其他基线方法,尤其在原子数超过100的大分子上表现更优,性能差距随分子尺寸增大而扩大,证明其对工业级分子建模的有效性。理论分析表明,GoMS能区分具有相同子结构组成但空间排列不同的分子。该方法在涉及复杂分子、性质由多个功能单元协同决定的材料科学应用中前景广阔。通过捕捉袋式方法丢失的子结构关系,GoMS为真实场景下的可扩展、可解释分子属性预测带来重要进展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While graph neural networks have shown remarkable success in molecular property prediction, current approaches like the Equivariant Subgraph Aggregation Networks (ESAN) treat molecules as bags of independent substructures, overlooking crucial relationships between these components. We present Graph of Molecule Substructures (GoMS), a novel architecture that explicitly models the interactions and spatial arrangements between molecular substructures. Unlike ESAN's bag-based representation, GoMS constructs a graph where nodes represent subgraphs and edges capture their structural relationships, preserving critical topological information about how substructures are connected and overlap within the molecule. Through extensive experiments on public molecular datasets, we demonstrate that GoMS outperforms ESAN and other baseline methods, with particularly improvements for large molecules containing more than 100 atoms. The performance gap widens as molecular size increases, demonstrating GoMS's effectiveness for modeling industrial-scale molecules. Our theoretical analysis demonstrates that GoMS can distinguish molecules with identical subgraph compositions but different spatial arrangements. Our approach shows particular promise for materials science applications involving complex molecules where properties emerge from the interplay between multiple functional units. By capturing substructure relationships that are lost in bag-based approaches, GoMS represents a significant advance toward scalable and interpretable molecular property prediction for real-world applications.

分子建模图神经网络材料科学子结构

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